Silicon Valley

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA) has witnessed lots of volatility in the last few days on back of a plethora of news, both good and bad, concerning the company. On March 18, 429 million new shares of the company will hit the market, more than what the company sold in its IPO, and there'...

Last week, New York City councilman Mark Levine proposed the introduction of bitcoin into the city’s payment options for fines. Levine introduced a bill that would integrate bitcoin on Thursday, saying that cryptocurrency acceptance within the state government was an important step in...

The rumors of rivalry brewing between two of Silicon Valley’s most successful companies, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA), are increasing by the day. As both companies are battling with each other for talent, it seems the war is spreading to other areas as...

For anyone who ever wondered what Silicon Valley could accomplish in a sports stadium, wonder no more. When the home of the San Francisco 49ers, also known as Levi’s Stadium, opens in two months, the football world will learn what happens when tech giants collaborate with the NFL. The $1....

Now that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has shut up its critics, at least for the moment, with much better-than-expected second quarter results, it might be time to reconsider a question observers have been asking for some time now: what should Apple buy with its current mountain of cash? Here are a...

Privately-owned Dropbox isn’t on the stock exchanges, yet. But with each new move, the company seems to be heading in the direction of an initial public offering. Most recently it unveiled Carousel, a product designed to store and manage your photos and videos. The app incorporates features...

In January, activist investor Carl Icahn called for eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) to spinoff PayPal. Since then, he has repeated his stance several times. Commenting last week at a conference in Silicon Valley, PayPal co-founder and venture capitalist Peter Thiel was asked if he thought PayPal should be...

The hype continues as another dot-com heads west. Rob Gough, President of CouponChad.com and DefinitiveDeals.com, recently moved his websites from Indianapolis, Ind. to Los Angeles, Calif. Known by many as "Silicon Beach," Los Angeles has been referred to as an emerging hotbed for technology...

A lawsuit brought on by employees of several major Silicon Valley corporations received a potentially costly (for defendants) upgrade to class action status Thursday. The original suit alleged conspiracy among Adobe Systems (NASDAQ: ADBE), Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Google (...

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) wants to provide all its customers with same day delivery of online orders, including groceries and other staples. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) wants to go one better. What’s better than same day delivery? Delivery before you ask. It’s called “ambient commerce” and it is part...

Academic speculation about the search for a new CEO to replace retiring Steve Ballmer at Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is, frankly, boring. What’s infinitely more interesting is scuttlebutt or, as Business Insider called it, “barstool gossip.” Bar stool gossip is sometimes more than just...

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) Board Director and initial investor Peter Thiel sold 20.1 million shares on August 16 and 17, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing. CNNMoney reports that Thiel had previously sold 16.8 million shares in Facebook's Initial Public Offering (IPO) for $...