When Pavel Durov was dismissed as CEO of VKontakte, the social media platform he had founded in 2006, last summer, Saint Petersburg’s tech community lamented the loss of its most enigmatic character,…
Huawei’s VP External Affairs Bill Plummer on the company’s consumer future, and virtualization
Huawei’s VP External Affairs Bill Plummer talks about the company’s future in the U.S. and its forays into the consumer market.
U.K. lags behind U.S. in social recruitment – report
by Anam Alpenia British recruiters are less likely to include a social media element in their hiring process than their American counterparts, according to a new report. The U.K. Social Recruitment Survey, by…
Q&A: MetricStream’s Piyush Pant talks Indian infrastructure
Piyush Pant is vice president of strategic markets at MetricStream, a Palo Alto-headquartered governance, risk and compliance (GRC) firm which was listed as a Deloitte Technology Fast 50 company last year. In…
Apple’s China app store attacked, AA flights grounded and ad-blocking apps boom
This week’s featured cyber attack victim is Apple. The company’s iPhone and iPad users in China have been hit by a malicious program targeting the App Store.
Five of the technology industry’s biggest political controversies
Uber recently became embroiled in a political row, after listing the territory of Western Sahara as a separate country, enraging users and officials in Morocco, which claims the state as its own.…
Czech tech is rising – just don’t thank the government
by Anam Alpenia Armed with two billion-dollar companies and a host of machine-learning prowess, the Czech Republic is capitalizing on its historic place straddling Europe’s east and west. But entrepreneurs are still dealing…
Reddit revolts, Samsung under fire over bloatware and Snapchat updated
Parts of the popular social media news site Reddit became inaccessible last week due to a protest over the firing of Victoria Taylor, a paid moderator for the site.
Logistics startups aim to save the environment, boost efficiency
The transportation sector accounted for around 27% of total greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. in 2013, according to figures from the EPA. One of the major factors contributing to that is…
Quotas close Europe’s gender gap – but figures still gloomy for female leadership
A new report shows how quota systems across Europe have helped heal its yawning gender gap in business. But the continent’s women still occupy very few leadership roles – and tech is…