Seattle repeals head tax amid heavy opposition

The 7-2 vote to overturn the tax came as the city council faced significant opposition from businesses and voters.

By Kristin Musulin • Updated June 13, 2018

Apple ranks fourth on Fortune 500, down a spot from last year

Though Apple's revenue fell behind Walmart, Exxon Mobil and Berkshire Hathaway, its $850 billion market cap outperformed other companies. 

By Samantha Schwartz • May 22, 2018

Microsoft boosts conversational AI with Semantic Machines acquisition

Conversational AI isn't just for customers. The enterprise is heading to a place where workers can have a conversation with a machine.

By Alex Hickey • May 21, 2018

Enterprise software sees another strong IPO with Utah unicorn PluralSight

Healthy trading multiples and a large appetite from public equity investors for technology IPOs have led a strong wave of tech activity in the market in the last few months.

By Alex Hickey • May 18, 2018

Report: Amazon wraps up visits to 20 HQ2 finalists

If a location is attractive to Amazon, it is attractive to other companies. Newark, New Jersey, Philadelphia and Austin, Texas had an increase in inquiries from other companies looking for a base. 

By Samantha Schwartz • May 17, 2018

Facing international pressure and lost business, Kaspersky moves critical infrastructure to Switzerland

The move is an attempt to distance the company from its Russian roots following backlash from the U.S. government and other customers last fall.

By Samantha Schwartz • May 15, 2018

Facebook has a new head of blockchain — wait, what?

Blockchain mania has set in at Facebook; the social network is establishing a dedicated group to experiment with the ledger technology. 

By Naomi Eide • May 9, 2018

Microsoft's 2018 priorities: Privacy, ethical AI and cybersecurity

GDPR is an important first step to privacy, and Microsoft has allocated hundreds of engineers to building a compliance infrastructure before the deadline.

By Alex Hickey • May 8, 2018

Amazon pauses work on Seattle projects over proposed homeless programs tax

The company has halted planning for a downtown tower and said it might now sublease skyscraper space until the City Council votes on the plan.

By Chris Teale • May 4, 2018

How corporate cultures stack up in cloud companies

More companies with distributed workforces are overcoming culture and employee satisfaction challenges, topping lists of best companies to work for.

By Alex Hickey • May 2, 2018

Software dominates the 10 technology IPOs of 2018

This week, Carbon Black will go public — following one of the busiest tech stock debut weeks in years, which saw four IPOs.

By Alex Hickey • May 1, 2018

Amazon adds more than 5K tech jobs across AWS, ML, Alexa

New jobs and offices mean big investments for Vancouver, Minneapolis and Boston — the only HQ2 finalist among the three cities.

By Alex Hickey • May 1, 2018

NYT appoints first female CIO as cloud migration journey closes

Cindy Taibi, a 37-year veteran of the media company, will assume responsibility for corporate infrastructure, enterprise productivity tools and critical applications and systems.

By Alex Hickey • April 26, 2018

Patch up or pay up: Equifax spent $243M on data breach recovery costs

Even with the additional costs related to the breach, the company had a 4% increase in revenue compared to Q1 2017. 

By Samantha Schwartz • April 26, 2018

IBM revenue up as companies jump on blockchain bandwagon

Growth in the quarter was bolstered by IBM's blockchain platform and other "innovative technologies" segments, including enterprise cloud, AI and security.

By Alex Hickey , Shefali Kapadia • April 19, 2018

Facebook rolls out data abuse bounty as Zuckerberg faces off with Congress

The real question right now is what is the right kind of regulation, not whether there should be regulation, Zuckerberg said.

By Alex Hickey • April 11, 2018

5 things to watch at RSA Conference 2018

If you haven't created a RSAC bingo card yet, now's the time. Be on the lookout for the overuse of terms like "nation state actors," "cyberwar" and "GDPR."

By Naomi Eide • April 11, 2018

Trump, tariffs, trade wars and tech: What you need to know

Intellectual property protections and technology transfers have been a problem in China for decades. Will tariffs fix the problem now, or will they make it worse?

By Alex Hickey • April 9, 2018

US and China tiptoe around a trade war: What's tech to do?

After the first set of American tariffs on Chinese imports took effect Friday to the tune of $34 million, China quickly levied retaliatory tariffs of equal measure.

By Alex Hickey • Updated July 6, 2018

Zuckerberg: Facebook will not make GDPR its global privacy standard

The company will work on its own global version, which will be "in spirit" with GDPR, said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a Reuters interview. 

By Alex Hickey • April 4, 2018

With CLOUD Act, Microsoft's Supreme Court case outcome 'moot'

The new law "is ultimately a complete answer to the outcome of the Microsoft case,” codifying the government's position.

By Alex Hickey • April 3, 2018

Life after Windows: Microsoft reorg pushes intelligent, cloud-ready everything

Part of the reshuffle includes the departure of long-time Microsoft executive Terry Myerson, who leads the current Windows and Devices group. 

By Naomi Eide • March 29, 2018

Dropbox pops 35% in public debut on the road to profitability

The company must continue to flip freemium customers into paid seats and level the playing field with other offerings in the market.

By Naomi Eide • March 26, 2018

Tech, retail industry leaders decry Trump tariffs on China

As threats of a trade war escalate, the technology and retail industries fear they'll face higher costs as a result of retaliatory tariffs. 

By Shefali Kapadia • March 23, 2018

Salesforce gets more horse than donkey in enterprise integration software deal

As Salesforce reaches into the market and pulls new capabilities "back into the mothership" with the MuleSoft deal, other companies will watch and play catch-up.

By Alex Hickey • March 22, 2018