Lawmakers and tech titans united?  What possibly could align such a crew?  War?  No.  The environment?  Sadly, no.  Citizen and consumer well-being?  Not exactly. Fear. Well, fear and greed.  Last month representative Zoe Lofgren presented a new bill that requires law enforcement to obtain a search warrant before accessing cloud data, such as email [...]

Very interesting conversations with Scott Case, serial entrepreneur, on his keynote at Fast Company’s Innovation Uncensored event in San Francisco. Case is now the CEO of StartUp America Partnership, a “movement of entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs” designed to inspire young companies with expertise, capital and talent. He shares at three cardinal rules for start up entrepreneurs: [...]

When you look around at the stock market or unemployment statistics, you assume that most people aren’t buying much these days. That’s true for the most part. Except when you look at Apple’s earnings. Apple sold 20 million iPhones (up by 142%) and 9.25 million iPads (jumping up by 182%)—nearly doubling revenue last quarter. I’m [...]