What are investors really thinking? Morgan Stanley poll finds ‘cooling’ interest in startups

Morgan Stanley Wealth Management conducted a survey of high net worth investors and found that fewer than 23% of respondents plan to invest in startups in the near future.

Survey: Most companies still not capitalizing on social media

For traditional businesses, social media is like a virus: it's furious, fast-growing, and impossible to ignore.

90% of consumers say Maps issue ‘irrelevant’ as iPhone 5 selling at record pace

Only 3 percent of consumers say Apple's Maps are a "big problem." I guess those 3 percent are Silicon Valley tech blog writers.

Study: Data scientists are the top athletes of the enterprise world

Data scientists are like the supermodels or football players of the enterprise world: highly in-demand and earning sky-high salaries in their prime but insecure about their future prospects.

Facebook’s IPO casts a long shadow over Silicon Valley, survey shows

Bubble — what bubble? For all the talk of a funding boom, Bay Area investors are plagued with doubts this summer due to Facebook’s disappointing IPO and the deepening debt crisis in Europe.

The results of the quarterly Silicon Valley …

More valley, less silicon: Is China’s dragon about to roar?

More than four out of 10 global executives polled by KPMG believe that the world center of technology innovation will not be Silicon Valley within four years. And among those who believe that Silicon Valley will lose its place as …

Adobe study reveals massive creativity gaps, but not in gender or age

Whether you’re able to be creative or not has little to do with how old you are or whether you’re female or male, but it might depend heavily on where you live, how your boss treats you, and how you …

Only 55 percent of Siri users are happy with the service

iPhone 4S owners don’t seem to be straying far from the basics when using Siri, the built-in voice-activated assistant, even though it’s capable of completing many different tasks.

Market research firm Parks Associates surveyed 482 iPhone 4S users to find …

Survey: Businesses are ravenous for the new iPad

Looks like more than just consumers are excited about the new Apple iPad unveiled last week. A new survey from ChangeWave Research indicates that more than a fifth of businesses will soon buy a tablet, with the iPad as the …

Survey: Gamers playing more on mobile than consoles, PCs

Gamers are spending more time on their mobile phones than on their consoles and personal computers, according to a new survey from mobile gaming community MocoSpace.

The survey, conducted on over 15,000 people last month, found that more are drawn …

What most of us will be doing on holidays: Checking our work email

The holidays are a time for good food, gathering with loved ones, frantic trips to overcrowded malls and paid time-off from work — well almost. A majority of the U.S. workforce will be checking their work email over holidays this …

State of the blogosphere 2011: Using social networks for self-promotion

For its annual look at the blogging world, Technorati surveyed 4,114 bloggers in 45 countries. This year, the focus was on why and how they blog, their connections with brands and how they use social media.

Meet the bloggers

Those …

Tech executives offer their views on the U.S. economy (It’s not good)

Sorry to rain on your parade, but this will only take a minute. A new report surveying leaders of technology companies indicates the U.S. economic recovery is two years away, instead of previous forecasts that it will happen in 2012.…

E-readers post surprisingly robust gains, tablet growth slower

After the iPad debuted last year, some people predicted e-readers would fade away, becoming at best niche products. But a report from the Pew Internet Project Monday shows a different trend: E-readers like Barnes & Noble’s Nook and Amazon’s Kindle …