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, is featuring a special Women’s Forum, a nod to the relat ...

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 show off that new system, called the EV3, and some of the cool things users will be able to build with it. ...

Tech and basketball: Tibco’s Vivek Ranadive scores Sacramento Kings deal

Tech and basketball, a sequel: The new majority owner of the Sacramento Kings is a team led by Tibco Software Chairman and CEO Vivek Ranadive, pending approval. Other tech names on the 30-strong buyers’ team, according to the Associated Press: Former Facebook exec Chris Kelly, and the Jacobs family, owners of Qualcomm. How did R ...

Nikola Tesla walks into a Sand Hill Road VC firm…

OK, so maybe making fun of venture capitalists is like shooting fish in a barrel. (Note: No fish were harmed in the producing of this blog post.) That said, the group behind a movement to get a statue of Nikola Tesla erected in Palo Alto (one of the many hearts of Silicon Valley) has done a wonderful job of it. My column on the statue ...

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 terms of service. Under the header “Don’t undertake the foll ...

Yahoo in talks to buy Tumblr?

Update: Yahoo said late Friday that it’s planning a press event Monday afternoon in New York City, although it would not say if the event is related to the Tumblr rumors.   Multiple reports across the Interweb today are suggesting that Yahoo is in serious talks for a potential billion-dollar acquisition of Tumblr, the social blo ...