"Technology Business" news, interviews, and features

News about Technology Business

• What's wrong with agile development: Culture, people top the list

  Agile development projects are succeeding, but when they fail, it's often due to staffing and teamwork issues

• Google agrees to not abuse mobile patents, search ads, or search results

  To close a federal investigation into possibly anticompetitive business practices, Google agrees to a slew of changes

• After drama, HP to keep its PC business after all

  New CEO Meg Whitman has reversed her predecessor's decision to spin out or sell its computer business

• SUSE Linux top exec: Interoperability is key

• Steve Jobs' fierce life and legacy

  The Apple co-founder was a polarising force that reshaped the tech industry several times

• Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has died

  The fierce force behind Apple's original innovation and its great comeback story has succumbed to cancer

Features about Technology Business

• Satya Nadella at one year: Grading Microsoft's CEO

  Nadella's first year at the Microsoft helm has brought both stunning successes and surprising lapses

• 6 dirty secrets of the IT industry

  IT pros blow the whistle on the less-than-white lies and dark sides of the tech business

• Foiled! How to beat software vendors' sneaky price increases

  Between complex licenses and the cloud, Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP have lots of ways to hike up prices. Here's how to fight back

• The worst tech predictions of 2013 -- and two that hit the mark

  From the social network in business to the 'success' of the Chromebook to the launch of iTV, the pundits got it wrong, wrong, wrong

• 5 strategic tips for avoiding a big data bust

  Failed expectations, increased costs, unnecessary legal risks -- going blind into a big data project doesn’t pay

• 4 smokin' hot startups: The next tech boom

  Social networks are dead, and smart VC money is pouring into enterprise startups like Shoutlet, Asana, Narrative Science, and Delphix