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TiECon 2013 advice for women in Tech from VMWare’s Preeti Somal, iControl Network’s Letha Mclaren, Biba Systems Beth Styles, VC Task Force’s June Riley and Stanford’s Neerja Raman

TiECon, Silicon Valley’s annual mega-networking conference, is leaning in big time this year. For the second year in a row the event, which draws entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, technologists and journalists from around the world to panel discussions and on-stage interviews, Read More →

Lego shows off new Mindstorms robot kit, touts summer tour

In case it isn't clear, that picture above is an electric guitar made out of Legos. An actual, playable guitar powered by Lego's newest Mindstorms robotic system. The folks from Lego Mindstorms stopped by this week to Read More →

Tech issues: No room at the LinkedIn for prostitutes; Square bans gun sales; Nintendo game and gay marriage

Today we're rounding up tidbits of tech "issues" from this week, from guns to prostitution to gay marriage: • LinkedIn doesn't want to be the network for the world's oldest profession. This week, the Mountain View company updated its Read More →

Ashish Thakkar and the Mara Group Take a flying leap at becoming the Skype Facebook, Google Talk of Africa

Ashish Thakkar is a big believer in sub-Saharan Africa  and he thinks Silicon Valley should become a big believer, too. "It's time for Africa," says Thakkar, who I first wrote about in August.  And he really means it. Thakkar, 31, who's Read More →

Watch out, Union Square. Here comes Apple!

Apparently unhappy with having simply a jaw-dropping store almost dead-center in the heart of downtown San Francisco, Apple now wants to relocate three blocks north to be totally dead-center. According to  the San Francisco Chronicle, Apple plans to open its new Read More →

Google I/Oh… about your privacy…

We've said it before, and we'll say it again: We trade our privacy for convenience — and some are more comfortable with that than others. The day after Google's I/O developers conference where it unveiled many a new or enhanced Read More →
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