Author: WTN News

SEATTLE — Almost 20 years ago, Microsoft licensed the Rolling Stones song “Start Me Up” to add a dash of rock ‘n’ roll to the release of Windows 95, the product that catapulted the company to a high-water mark of influence in the tech industry....

'Organizations must pay particular attention to HIPAA's requirements when using Internet-based document sharing applications' Does your hospital permit employees to use a file-sharing app to store patients' protected health information? Better think again. A Massachusetts hospital is paying up and reevaluating its privacy and security policies...

'Of the 10,000 known diseases – 7,000 of which are rare – there are treatments for only 500.' After 18 months in the making and vigorous bipartisan campaigning, the 21st Century Cures bill, H.R. 6, which aims to get new medical treatments to market faster, passed...

Amit Singhal, Google’s search chief, oversees the 200 or so factors that determine where websites rank in the company’s search engine, which means he decides if your website lives or dies. His current challenge: figuring out how to spread that same fear and influence to...

Early this week the WSJ reported that the Securities Exchange Commission is investigating the selling of pre-IPO company stock, which has seen a recent surge in activity as companies remain private longer and valuations continue to rise....

What you can learn from the behaviors of 7 billionaires--in their own words. According to Forbes, there are about 1,826 billionaires on the planet. Of those, 290 joined the club in 2015. That's an increase of about 19 percent. At that rate, the number of billionaires...

Quip, Cotap, and others are scrapping the mobile-first playbook. Bret Taylor had a chart that was going the wrong way. The CEO of Quip, a startup whose namesake app promised to redefine word processing for the mobile era, had seen a curious trend: Desktop usage of Quip,...