March 30, 2015 Secrecy on the Set: Hollywood Embraces Digital Security by NICOLE PERLROTH By NICOLE PERLROTH To better protect scripts, casting decisions, budgets and other sensitive files, filmmakers are turning to new tools to thwart hackers and…
March 30, 2015 For Hardware Makers, Sharing Their Secrets Is Now Part of the Business Plan by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY Patenting everything is so 2005. Companies like Facebook and Tesla Motors have followed the lead of open-source software, and now expose…
March 28, 2015 A Wi-Fi Barbie Doll With the Soul of Siri by NATASHA SINGER By NATASHA SINGER Companies like Mattel are readying electronic toys that will use Web connections to talk back to children, raising some concerns about…
March 28, 2015 After Kleiner Trial, Expect Less Shooting From the Hip in Silicon Valley by DAVID STREITFELD and CONOR DOUGHERTY By DAVID STREITFELD and CONOR DOUGHERTY A recurring issue was who originated investment ideas at the venture capital firm and the lack of documentation…
March 28, 2015 Google and Johnson & Johnson Team for Robotic Surgery Projects by CONOR DOUGHERTY By CONOR DOUGHERTY Google and Johnson & Johnson announced a partnership to develop new robot-assisted surgery technologies but offered few details. Published: March 26,…
March 28, 2015 Slack Gets Hacked as Start-Up Technologies Become Targets by NICOLE PERLROTH By NICOLE PERLROTH Communications start-up Slack gets hacked, just days after Twitch discloses a similar incident. Published: March 26, 2015 at 08:00PM from NYT…
March 28, 2015 Cleaning Out Gmail by J. D. BIERSDORFER By J. D. BIERSDORFER Messages moved to Trash must be manually deleted to regain space immediately. Also, how to convert audiobook CDs for the…
March 28, 2015 Ellen Pao Disrupts How Silicon Valley Does Business by FARHAD MANJOO By FARHAD MANJOO While the verdict on Friday was a defeat for Ms. Pao, the trial has blown open a conversation about the status…
March 27, 2015 What the Jury in the Ellen Pao-Kleiner Perkins Case Needed to Decide by Unknown Author By Unknown Author The case pit a venerable venture capital firm, which nurtured such famous Internet start-ups as Google and Amazon, against a former…
March 27, 2015 Ellen Pao Loses Silicon Valley Gender Bias Case Against Kleiner Perkins by DAVID STREITFELD By DAVID STREITFELD The lawsuit against the venture capital firm by a dismissed partner had renewed questions about the lack of diversity in the…