I was on This Week in Tech — also known as TWiT — this past weekend, along with Harry McCracken, Patrick Norton, and Merlin Mann, plus host Leo LaPorte. It’s a two-hour live show, but the time went by fast: Leo keeps things moving along and everybody had something interesting to say about the week’s

SAN FRANCISCO — Like a coder, Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer sees her company as a massive design and engineering problem. That’s not too surprising for someone who studied computer science and spent years working on products at Google earlier in her career. Mayer took the stage today at Bloomb

SAN FRANCISCO — Former Cisco chief technical officer Padmasree Warrior is a painter and a haiku poet, as well as one of the leading female executives in the technology world. For her, art and technology are interlinked. Creating art — and she emphasized that she is an amateur artist — involves some

Got email marketing? We’ve got best practices from LivingSocial and estate sale guru Everything But The House in our next Insight webinar. SAN FRANCISCO — Dick Costolo didn’t know he would be replaced as Twitter chief executive until the three-hour meeting with the Twitter board in June at which his

I spoke with Josh Macht (Group Publisher, Harvard Business Review) on an episode of Hubspot’s podcast The Growth Show to talk about how our publications have been able to survive — and thrive — in the digital age. It’s an interesting 30-minute conversation about how digital publications can grow, at

Astrophysicist and Cosmos host Neil deGrasse Tyson made a brief appearance in an Apple event earlier this week, where he seemed to say that Apple’s App Store was one of humanity’s crowning achievements. In a recorded video about the App Store — which recently marked its 100 billionth app download, a

Got email marketing? We’ve got best practices from LivingSocial and estate sale guru Everything But The House in our next Insight webinar. When Virgin America first launched in 2007, its entertainment system was notable enough that I called the plane “a multimillion dollar iPod — that flies.” Eight

Four years ago, Matt Marshall and Alicia Saribalis hired me to lead VentureBeat’s news team, which at that comprised about five people. One of them immediately left. (Thanks for the vote of confidence, Anthony.) Most of us sat in a small office in San Francisco, arrayed around a collection of mismat

Marketers are now able to personalize messages for their customers (and potential customers) with greater precision than ever before. Powerful new data analytics systems, marketing automation platforms, and a host of other tools are part of this revolution in targeting. But the availability of huge

Publishing is a tough business. And despite the buckets of venture capital that have been poured into media companies in recent years, it’s clear that not every publisher can make those investments pay off.

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, California — GoPro chief executive Nick Woodman revealed a prototype of a GoPro-based rig that will be able to capture spherical video. The rig — a sort of cubical framework — holds six GoPro Hero 4 cameras in an arrangement that lets them capture video in all directions simulta

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, California — If you want to experience virtual reality with an Oculus Rift, the cost to get started — PC, headset, and all — will be less than $1,500. Oculus has been pretty cagey about what the price for its Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset will be, and chief executive Brend