It’s not enough to address an overall gender imbalance in tech and IT organizations if there is not much change in the gender of the leaders. That’s the focus of first-ever: Extraordinary Women in Tech global conference -- this December.The gender ga...

Above: Sao Paulo's main business district Paulista Avenue. Credit: Julio RiccoGuest post by Carol Strobel, operating partner at Redpoint eventures and a veteran of Brazil's startup ecosystem.Latin America has been known as an emerging economy for dec...

  Tech workers marching at Gay Pride San Francisco 2019 Guest post by Luciana Carvalho, VP of People and Performance at Movile Surviving in the post-lockdown economy is going to be the most important test that many business leaders have ...

The SV Forum Visionary Awards used to be my favorite Silicon Valley summer event. These were small outdoor gatherings maybe 150 to 200 people, and usually held in the substantial backyard of some fabulous Woodside mansion — but always with incred...

 Without events and conferences -- IT vendors are having to change how they reach potential customers. Above: Crunchies Awards 2013 Guest Post by Alex Shapiro  @AlexShapiroPR The battle for influence and attention by the big vendors can’t s...

Photo: Paulista Avenue, São Paulo, Brazil. Guest post By Eduardo Henriques, Movile Group co-founder and Wavy CEO In the rainforests of Brazil, the incredible diversity of competing life forms includes the fire ant — a species that has lear...

                  Knowledge workers work such short hours on their actual jobs (three--ish hours) that tech has a very narrow window of application in people's day thus limiting the productivity benefits that can be del...

More than 7500 Oracle employees signed an online petition criticizing an upcoming Trump fundraising event at founder Larry Ellison's Coachella Valley, Calif., property. In a letter from a group called Oracle Employees for Ethics addressed to "Dear...

Brazil’s iFood is a great example of a highly innovative company that is very much a product of Silicon Valley even though it is founded and funded largely by Brazilians (and South Africans) and has raised nearly $600 million and swiftly built a gian...

RTB House is a proud sponsor of the RTB-Warsaw MIMotaurs one of nine teams competing in a unique Artificial Intelligence (AI) competition — autonomous racing drones. And for the team whose AI beats an elite human pilot — there’s fame and fortune....

Stanford students threw first "Brazil at Silicon Valley" event with 700+ attendees that included many Brazilian investment icons. Insiders bet that one third of Brazil’s GDP was in the room. ...

Walking around the giant show floor at RSA I was struck by a thought: what a dismal industry this must be. If you are good at your job, you haven't created any new technology that makes processes more productive, or could be used to create new ty...

Silicon Valley based K2 Cyber Security has emerged from stealth mode with a technology that prevents zero day attacks by monitoring app performance in the cloud. K2 is able to create an execution map for each application and is able to stop it if ...

                        I'm a huge fan of Joe Rogan because he is the only mainstream interviewer that can attract so many different people, across spectrums in politics, science, cosmology, archeology. There a...

Google's workers are getting bolder and more frequent in their disagreement with their leaders as shown by this week's protest of plans to re-enter the Chinese market. [Please see: Employees tell Google not to be complicit in Chinese oppression an...

Despite acknowledging the value of AI and machine learning technologies most business organizations are lagging behind in using them reports a survey from RELX Group. More than 91 percent of senior executives polled understood that AI and machine ...

Silicon Valley startup Orkus emerged from stealth mode this week with an IT security service designed to scale with cloud IT deployments and control data access and identities. The Orkus Access Governance Platform was launched at the AWS re:Invent...

Local protestors claimed a victory in their opposition to Google's plans to set up an urban business park in a poor district of Berlin -- it would have been its seventh "Google Campus" after London, Sao Paulo, Madrid, Tel Aviv, Seoul, and Warsaw. ...

IT organizations plan for their cloud migration and hope for cost savings and greater business agility, but once in the cloud, the majority exceed their budgets and discover a serious skill gap, according to a recent survey commissioned by IT ser...

Teraki announced that Infineon Systems will use its latest AI edge processing software in a family of automotive microcontrollers that will improve the safety of autonomous vehicles. The Berlin, Germany-based startup said that its software is ...

The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation's relentless 61-year -- annual search for the best young science, maths and engineering graduates -- is developing into a closer relationship with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which is funding the additio...

Artist Stephanie Dinkins tells a fascinating story about her work with an AI robot made to look like an African-American woman and at times sensing some type of consciousness in the machine. She was speaking at the de Young Museum's Thinking M...

The de Young Museum’s Cult of the Machine exhibit includes a series of talks on the topic of “Thinking Machines”.  Tim O’Reilly, the hugely successful media entrepreneur of tech books and conferences will speak with author Steven Johnson about th...

There are no unions in Silicon Valley but maybe they aren't needed if software engineers can self-organize at a moment's notice — using the same communications and collaborations tools they use at work and at leisure. The recent victory by Goo...

Quantum computers will break our public/private key encryption technologies and IBM says it has a quantum computer resistant technology called lattice cryptology.

Quantum computers will be able to instantly break the encryption of sensitive data protected by today's strongest security, warns the head of IBM Research. This could happen in a little more than five years because of advances in quantum computer ...

It must be embarrassing for the SEC to have to come to the aid of billionaire investors in Theranos such as Rupert Murdoch, Larry Ellison, and Tim Draper. The SEC usually focuses its resources on protecting retail investors -- the not-so knowledge...

Eric Schmidt — former executive chairman of $GOOG was this week named an Innovation Fellow at Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT) for one year. "Schmidt will figure prominently in MIT’s plans to bring human and machine intelligence to the...

In the latest deal Google is buying the landmark Chelsea market building complex in New York city for over $2 billion — a huge number even for New York reports Mark Maurer in The Real Deal: The 1.2 million-square-foot office-and-retail property ...

Venture capital funding for female founders of startups edged up by a tiny amount in 2017 with 2.2% of a total of $85 billion invested compared with all-male teams receiving 79% according to a report by Fortune. The number of deals edged up to 4.4...