Maybe “cha-ching” should be “ra-ring,” as PayPal had a 514 percent increase in mobile payments this Cyber Monday from last year.
Just as people adapted to purchasing online, now they are becoming more accustomed to buying through their smartphones. PayPal …
Charlie Walton, the inventor of an ubiquitous wireless technology known as RFID, has passed away at 89.
Walton, who lived in Los Gatos, died on Nov. 6, according to his wife Ann Walton. I once wrote an article about Walton …
Billionaire Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway now has a stake in IBM worth $11 billion, making it the largest single stakeholder in the company. With fully 5.5 percent of the all common shares, Buffett, who is the president, chairman and chief …
This week, IBM named its first-ever female CEO, Virginia Rometty.
In an industry that historically lacks gender balance, this move struck the VentureBeat staffers, including publisher Alicia Saribalis, as momentous.
But in reflecting on the events of the day, we …
IBM named its new president and chief executive today, Virginia Rometty, who will also serve on the company’s board of directors.
Sam Palmisano (pictured right with Rometty), the current chief executive, will be stepping down as Virginia, who goes by …
Samsung is best known for its consumer-focused products, but the company is beginning to take enterprise more seriously and wants to gain recognition from the business community.
“We want businesses to think about us like they think about IBM,” Ken …
Today, for the first time since 1996, IBM is worth more than Microsoft.
International Business Machines, which has been around since 1911, saw its market value reach $214 billion yesterday, while Microsoft’s fell to $213.2 billion.
Both companies still fall …
The number of mobile security exploits is on track to double year over year between 2010 and 2011.
“For years, observers have been wondering when malware would become a real problem for the latest generation of mobile devices,” said Tom …
Bob Allen spent much of his career as an IBM researcher exploring semiconductor manufacturing processes. But at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., Allen is now trying to use his understanding of nanotechnology and membranes to come …
San Jose, Calif. — At the IBM Almaden Research Center, a team of researchers is creating the artificial brains of the future. Within the walls of Almaden is the Cognitive Computing Lab, whose staff is working on one of the …
Hewlett-Packard said on Mondaythat it plans to spin off its personal computer division and is working on how to separate the unit from the rest of the company.
The company previously said in what turned out to be a disastrously …
IBM on Monday launched three updated mobile applications designed to help businesses that use its enterprise social networking package, Connections.
The apps, for iOS, Android and BlackBerry, plug in enterprise users and their customers so they can access things like …
Guest Post
HP has had to face tough realities this week. Fortunately, there is a way for it to survive: Embrace the inevitable trend favoring “vertical” companies.
In the first part of the 2000s, IBM and HP went in two vastly different …
Here’s our roundup of the week’s top tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:
IBM produces first working chips modeled on the human brain — IBM has been shipping computers for more …
IBM has been shipping computers for more than 65 years, and it is finally on the verge of creating a true electronic brain.
Big Blue is announcing today that it, along with four universities and the Defense Advanced Research Projects …
On a damaging day for the U.S. stock market, enterprise-focused stocks got hammered just like everything else. But their prospects during a downturn are better than most, according to analysts contacted by VentureBeat.
At the end of trading Monday, the …
There’s a reason why malware creators are outrunning the security vendors now. It’s a lot easier to attack computer networks than it is to protect them, according to a cyber security expert at the Pentagon.
Peiter Zatko, a famous hacker …
Google has snapped up more than a thousand IBM patents, a move that likely doubled the number of patents held by the search giant.
Many patent law experts are suggesting the move was intended to give Google a bit more …
Translattice is launching a new platform for enterprise computing today that will distribute data throughout a company’s computer network and save as much as 60 percent on enterprise computing costs.
After four years of redesigning how enterprise databases store and …
If you want to attract customers to a new product, sometimes you have to give out samples.
In a bigger-than-usual case, Microsoft has handed out $250,000 to the University of Nebraska to switch its e-mail, office, and calendaring programs to …
