As managing director of strategic partnerships at Honda Innovations, the venture capital wing of the world’s seventh-largest automaker, Dennis Clark is a keystone in the bridge between the corporation and its growing…
Silicon States: Lucie Greene Explores Big Tech’s New World
Renowned futurist and global think-tank leader Lucie Greene has spent years honing her expertise on the tech industry. In Silicon States, she examines the players, promises and potential problems of Big Tech, speaking…
Five Top New York City VC Firms
Silicon Valley is still the king of American venture capital: last year the San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA metro area contributed just over $23 billion, or 34.13%, of the nation’s entire VC spending. While…
Red Herring North America 2018 to Begin in California
Red Herring‘s Top 100 North America conference kicks off this evening in California. The event, which runs until Wednesday night, begins with a cocktail mixer tonight before two days of keynote speeches,…
Trump’s Artless Dealmaking Could Seriously Harm the Tech Industry
“My style of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward,” wrote Donald Trump in his 1987 book Trump: The Art of the Deal. “I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing…
As May Day Arrives, will Silicon Valley’s Workers Unite?
May Day, also known as International Workers’ Day, is not well observed in the United States. But it is, in fact, an American invention – adopted as a result of the Haymarket…
The Uber-Waymo Case Could Speed Up Regulatory Action
Industrial subterfuge is nothing new. In 1712 Father Francois Xavier d’Entrecolles brought porcelain-making trade secrets back to Europe from China. Since then espionage cases have been scattered throughout history like invisible ink…
Criticism of the UK’s Anti-Terror Tool is Shortsighted
Yesterday the UK government announced the development of a machine learning tool, with which it will seek out material from terror group ISIS before it is uploaded to the Web. The tool,…
Unilever Threatens to Pull Ads from Google, Facebook “Swamp”
The chief marketing officer of Unilever, the world’s second-bigger marketing spender, will today threaten to pull advertising from Google and Facebook if the tech giants continue to “create division” or fail to…
Las Vegas Shooting: Social Media Has Failed America Again
As information about Sunday’s massacre in Las Vegas emerges, the United States has reverted to its usual polarized self, forcing voices on either side of the gun control debate into ever-decreasing circles…