February 7, 2016 Farhad and Mike’s Week in Tech: Start-Ups and the Circle of Life by FARHAD MANJOO and MIKE ISAAC By FARHAD MANJOO and MIKE ISAAC Start-up funding isn’t as extravagant as it used to be, and some firms will not survive the downturn….
February 6, 2016 Daily Report: As Tech Powers, China Is Rising, While Japan Declines by PUI-WING TAM By PUI-WING TAM China’s growing tech industry is inciting concern, while Japan’s stalling tech industry is spurring deals. Published: February 4, 2016 at 07:00PM…
February 6, 2016 BlackBerry Lays Off 200, Pointing to Shift Away from Phones by IAN AUSTEN By IAN AUSTEN The Canadian company’s chief executive has said in the past that he wants to maintain the company’s phone business. That is,…
February 6, 2016 U.S. and Europe in ‘Safe Harbor’ Data Deal, but Legal Fight May Await by MARK SCOTT By MARK SCOTT The agreement would let businesses like Google and Facebook continue to move personal data across the Atlantic, but European privacy officials…
February 6, 2016 Disconnecting From a Virtual Private Network by J. D. BIERSDORFER By J. D. BIERSDORFER If you do not want your VPN app to start up every time you use the Internet, you can adjust…
February 6, 2016 For Parental Controls, iPhones Beat Androids by BRIAN X. CHEN By BRIAN X. CHEN The Apple phones were able to accomplish a range of restrictions, like blocking content and purchases, while Android phones offered…
February 6, 2016 Apps to Manage Passwords So They Are Harder to Crack Than ‘Password’ by BRIAN X. CHEN By BRIAN X. CHEN Evaluating the merits of Dashlane, 1Password, LastPass and other methods of keeping long lists of increasingly complex passwords safe and…
February 5, 2016 Twitter Steps Up Efforts to Thwart Terrorists’ Tweets by MIKE ISAAC By MIKE ISAAC The company said it had suspended 125,000 accounts associated with extremism since mid-2015 and was accelerating its review of users suspected…
February 5, 2016 Daily Report: The Mystery of Amazon’s Bookstores by PUI-WING TAM By PUI-WING TAM How an offhand remark about Amazon opening new bookstores spawned a viral reaction and a backtracking. Published: February 3, 2016 at…
February 5, 2016 Concern Grows in U.S. Over China’s Drive to Make Chips by PAUL MOZUR and JANE PERLEZ By PAUL MOZUR and JANE PERLEZ Chips with military as well as electronics uses came under focus when Washington officials killed a $2.9 billion…