The Irish of Silicon Valley

The Irish emigrant experience in Silicon Valley has changed from one of survival to one of ambition, and from one of permanent displacement to one of constant connection

Tech giant may be motoring towards Apple Car

Firm reportedly poached large number of top car engineers to work on secret project

Tech advance the constant for indefatigable Marc Andreessen

Over ‘shaking beef’, Netscape founder and tech investor talks about the trouble with stock markets, what he looks for in entrepreneurs and why illegal immigration is good for America

Start-up savvy: a guide for dummies on how to blag your way to your first million

Learn the words and phrases you’ll need to talk like a pro in the world of venture capitalists

Rise of the robot presents major challenge for human workforce

Fears that technology will displace jobs are at least as old as the Luddites, but there are signs that this time may really be different

Frisco jolly the place for gizmo geekdom’s movers and shakers

Everybody who’s anybody except Bono turned up for Marc Benioff’s Dreamforce ’14 technology conference

Andreessen resigns from EBay after battle with investor

Web-browser pioneer resigns following verbal spat with activist investor

will.i.am enters the wearables market

Pop star turns tech entrepreneur with the Puls cuff unveiled at the Dreamforce tech event

Snoop Dogg, Jared Leto join $50m Reddit funding round

Silicon Valley investor Marc Andreessen also among those joining funding round

Venture capitalist says start-ups are ‘burning through cash’

Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen warns of a looming bubble in Silicon Valley

Is it time to look beyond disruption?

AIB Start-up Academy will encourage sustainable growth

How much safer would our roads be if robots drove ?

Research suggests dramatic reductions in collisions, and severity of injury, with automated cars

Silicon star: unlocking secrets, if not its own value

Palantir is under pressure to go public, but would such a move interfere with its lofty ideals?

How advertising has warped the internet economy

eBay rejects Icahn’s nominees for its board

Icahn wants eBay to spin off or sell its PayPal electronic payments unit and is nominating two candidates to the board

Who can recall the fallen greats of the dog-eat-dog tech world?

The history of digital technology is littered with the corpses of companies that didn’t make the cut

Zuckerberg to sell $2.3bn of Facebook shares

Social network shares tumble following sale announcement

Twitter failure to answer key IPO questions blamed on Jobs Act

A legal change in the US lets firms stay silent until close to share sale

For the man who thought bigger was better – it was time for Steve Ballmer to go

Ballmer tripled revenue at Microsoft since he replaced Bill Gates in 2000

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