October 20, 2015 Square Hires Former Yahoo Executive to Run Cash Advance Business by MIKE ISAAC By MIKE ISAAC A top Yahoo executive will join Square, which is currently in the run-up to its initial public offering. Published: October 18,…
October 20, 2015 Daily Report: Tech Tussles Take Center Stage in Earnings by PUI-WING TAM By PUI-WING TAM Tech earnings season is going into full swing, with companies including Yahoo, IBM, Google and Microsoft set to report quarterly results…
October 20, 2015 IBM Sales and Profit Dropped 14% in Third Quarter by STEVE LOHR By STEVE LOHR Analysts say IBM is struggling to offset the erosion of some of its traditional hardware, software and services businesses. Published: October…
October 19, 2015 Cybersecurity Firm Says Chinese Hackers Keep Attacking U.S. Companies by PAUL MOZUR By PAUL MOZUR A blog post by CrowdStrike said that the attacks had continued despite an agreement to end them between Washington and Beijing….
October 19, 2015 Netflix Faces Challengers in Its Push to Expand Globally by MARK SCOTT and ELIAN PELTIER By MARK SCOTT and ELIAN PELTIER International competitors are offering similar fare, and even some of Netflix’s programming, making it harder for the video-streaming…
October 19, 2015 Publishers Straddle the Apple-Google, App-Web Divide by KATIE BENNER and CONOR DOUGHERTY By KATIE BENNER and CONOR DOUGHERTY As Apple focuses on apps and Google pushes the mobile web, businesses must grapple with a fragmenting online…
October 18, 2015 Farhad and Mike’s Week in Tech: A Square Deal by FARHAD MANJOO and MIKE ISAAC By FARHAD MANJOO and MIKE ISAAC The payments processing company run by Jack Dorsey just publicly disclosed the prospectus for its eventual I.P.O. Published:…
October 17, 2015 Keeping a Hard Drive From Getting Too Full by J. D. BIERSDORFER By J. D. BIERSDORFER Windows offers tools like Disk Defragmenter and Disk Cleanup to find extra space on your drive. Published: October 16, 2015…
October 17, 2015 Y Combinator Will Fund Later-Stage Companies by MIKE ISAAC By MIKE ISAAC The so-called start-up incubator announced that it had raised a $700 million fund specifically aimed at investing in adolescent businesses. Published:…
October 17, 2015 Steve Ballmer Buys Into Twitter by MIKE ISAAC By MIKE ISAAC Mr. Ballmer, the former chief executive of Microsoft, said he had acquired a 4 percent stake in Twitter. Published: October 15,…