When Kevin Hsiung moved into his brand-new apartment on San Francisco’s Potrero Hill, he wanted what every tenant wants: the best deal on Internet service.
It has been a busy three years for St. Paul-based GovDelivery since the Pioneer Press last profiled the company, which works with government entities to improve how they communicate with their constituents via email and other means.
An odd thing happened to Twitter in September: For the first time in a long time, things were looking up for the stalled social media company. Its shares saw their biggest gain since the company went public in 2013. Investors seemed optimistic.
In a ballroom of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel chilled and lit like the isolated racks of a data center, an executive with Amazon’s data-storage and computing unit announced a partnership with Palo Alto’s VMware.
Samsung’s disastrous rollout of its Galaxy Note 7 — marred by exploding batteries and discontinued permanently yesterday — may not be the last stumble of its kind as gadget developers continue to push the limits of smartphone technology, industry watchdogs warn.
The organization behind the annual Davos global economic summit announced Monday that it will open a center in San Francisco to study the implications of new technologies poised to transform society.
Alphabet is now a laboratory experimenting on the cure for its own core business model — and it’s willing to take on the losses associated with that. The problem is that Google’s bets have the worst timing.
The founder and CEO of Salesforce, Marc Benioff, has commanded a major presence in Silicon Valley since emerging as a hotshot salesman at Oracle Corp. in the 1980s, but could become better known if he acquires Twitter.
Oculus, the virtual reality company owned by Facebook, is investing more than $250 million to spur development of content for its VR headsets and hand controllers, the company said Thursday at its annual conference.
The University of San Diego is creating a “cyber range” where students can experience simulated online attacks and learn how to defend against them — or even fight back.
Yahoo not only secretly complied with the broad demand to search all incoming messages, but also dedicated its own staff to craft custom software to help facilitate the investigation, according to Reuters.
Cybersecurity experts are warning against hackers' hijackings of common household smart appliances, such as thermostats and security cameras, in cyberattacks.
Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Hillsborough, introduced a bill this year that would make it a crime to maliciously share a “private visual depiction of a person’s intimate parts or a person engaging in sexually explicit conduct” without that person’s consent.
The news comes on the heels of the Sept. 17 Chelsea bombing, in which Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) notifications were sent to millions of New Yorkers to help assist in the search for suspect Ahmad Rahami, while he was on the run. The message said to "see media for pic."
The axiom that the number of transistors in a microchip would double about every year or two, making the brain behind computers more powerful and less expensive, is on the demise. But have researchers found a new way?
During a three-year experiment, researchers will be monitor millions of tweets related to the L.A. area in an effort to identify patterns and markers that prejudice-motivated violence is about to occur in real time.
As many as a dozen San Francisco ventures, with names like Planet, SpaceVR and Terra Bella, are building their own constellations of nanosatellites to send into orbit around the Earth.
The decarbonization of the economy has barely started in much of the country. In California, it’s well underway. The state’s emissions have fallen almost every year since 2007.
Under the deal, elements of Microsoft’s Office 365 and related analytics tools will connect with Workday’s set of human resources and finance software.
Twitter shares soared Friday following reports that the social media company had begun sale negotiations with several technology companies and may receive a formal offer by year’s end.
Mere hours after news that hundreds of millions of Yahoo user accounts had been hacked, users of the firm’s services filed a class-action suit accusing Yahoo of putting users’ finances at risk and failing to notify them earlier about the breach.
A San Francisco judge ruled the comments in a Yelp review 'defamatory' and told the company to delete the comment. The company refused citing free speech. Now the state's highest court will hear the case.
The launch of LinkedIn Learning is the long-awaited integration of business education company Lynda.com, which LinkedIn bought for $1.5 billion in 2015. The subscription service suggests courses LinkedIn’s 450 million members might need to advance in their careers.
The fact that the data was stolen in 2014 and that there appear to have been no reports of ill outcomes for Yahoo users mitigates the effects of the breach, said one analyst. Yahoo put itself up for sale in February and in July announced Verizon would buy its Internet business for $4.83 billion, with the sale to be finalized in the first quarter of next year.
A security research team in China hacked into a Tesla Model S and said they took over the car’s brakes from 12 miles away. A video released this week shows members of the research team being thrust forward as the remote hacker slammed the brakes on command.
Analysts expect Google to unveil its latest Android smartphones, a virtual reality headset and an Internet-connected device for the home that will rival the Amazon Echo at an event the company has set for Oct. 4.
The truce marks the end of an era when Comcast and Netflix battled publicly and bitterly over network interconnections and Comcast’s proposed acquisition of Time Warner Cable Inc.
