We’ve all heard some version of the hare and the tortoise fable that passes on this simple message: Pragmatic plodding wins the race. Unfortunately, this lesson seems to be lost in companies trying to innovate today. The “need for speed” seems to be trumping common sense.

There has been much written on the subject of encryption over the last couple years. A great deal of it coming on the heels of the revelations of warrantless government wiretaps and driftnet data collection techniques. The Snowden leaks were pivotal in this regard. Numerous secret programs were…

Sitting on Tableau Software's balance sheet at the end of the first quarter was $715.7 million in cash and equivalents.

Search giant will allow users select what information they want to share with apps.

Here are some of the top business women in the marijuana industry.

Anyone wanting to hack a hipster might want to look at Bluetooth, shoddy use of which can open avenues for attacks on all kinds of devices, from Apple Macs to electric skateboards. It might be time for manufacturers to keep up to date with the latest, and more secure, Bluetooth versions to protect…

Abercrombie & Fitch, Chipotle Mexican Grill, and Costco are among the notable movers on Thursday.

Nowadays, it seems that bland, utilitarian items are getting an upgrade. Birkenstocks are now a part of every fashion girl’s wardrobe, and sneakers look good enough to walk down the red carpet. The market is certainly rife with pieces that evoke glamour, offering consumers a chicer range of options…

The new button is expected to be rolled out on mobile devices.

The yen hit a 12-year low against the dollar overnight. As much as we’d like to ignore the greenback, it’s still playing a role in this stock market that’s no less than a merry-go-round for investors.

Several years in the works, the new service codenamed ?Proactive? will reportedly use data from Contacts, Calendar and Siri to act as a personal assistant service.

The parent of India’s largest coffee chain, Cafe Coffee Day, is filing for an IPO in the country in the coming fortnight. The pre-IPO valuation of the Starbucks rival is said to be $1 billion.

I’ve had occasion over the last year to write about digital supply chain security more than a few times (1, 2, 3). There are the aspects of outsourcing helpdesk functions, code development, millions of interconnects with partners. There is no shortage to how wide the attack surface for your…

The IRS and 100,000 unlucky taxpayers are victims of the latest data breach in an endless string of cyber exploits that have turned into the online world's version of Groundhog Day. The attackers, identity thieves and fraudsters seeking to file false tax returns, target a place with perhaps the…

Google Inc. faces longer odds in convincing the Supreme Court to intervene in a copyright battle with Oracle Corp. after the Obama administration urged the justices not to hear the case.

Guesswork's strategy has been to build vertical applications on top of Google's Prediction API. Doraisamy contends that the lead qualification in his machine learning-powered product is 10x better than conventional CRM practices.

When you spend $400 on a motorcycle helmet, you have certain expectations about quality and safety. But what should you expect when your helmet costs $400,000? Well, if you expected it to be magically able to see through walls, you’d be right.

Google’s YouTube is now expected to be valued at $80 billion, bigger than eBay, Yahoo, Starbucks and Costco

A bug in iPhones that meant a line of Arabic text shut the device down also affects Apple Macs, a security researcher says. It might not seem serious, but a patch will be required to protect organisations reliant on Apple systems.

Echo Labs uses light and a clever algorithm to measure oxygen and CO2 in the blood stream.

Dawn raids for FIFA officials may be the best excitement going today, that’s after maybe much ado about nothing yesterday.

While flash memory products continue to find more applications in accelerating data center and enterprise applications, reliable HDD and HDD/SSD hybrid systems are enabling combinations of high performance from flash with lower cost HDD storage. Ethernet-based storage devices are now available from…

China’s Communist Party holds a conference to talk about gaining the support of groups of people who are not party members — a move one expert says is an effort to garner support for reforms, Caixin Online reports.

Several Internet giants have inquired about buying Flipboard Inc., maker of a newsreader app that has recently signaled it is open to acquisition discussions, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today that identity thieves have illegally accessed tax information for more than 100,000 taxpayers with unsuccessful attempts made on approximately 100,000 additional taxpayer accounts.

The car of the future will brake and steer on its own and be a lot lighter. And those are just a few of the features that will be “commonplace” in a decade, according to a Goldman Sachs research note.

We often consider this to be a shrinking music industry, yet the profits of a guitar-centric manufacturer are rising steadily.

Don’t wait and see if regulators approve Charter Communications’ offer, says Phil van Doorn.

By Mike Morris and Ben Kerschberg