Steve Lohr

Facebook said that it would increase its use of outside measurement services for display and video ads

If more than 40 per cent of the entries in a person's contact list have both first and last names, it suggests a customer who is 16 times more reliable than one with very few contacts listed with firs

In the last two years, the number of IoT devices has surged to 6.4 billion

Says legal framework for design patents is outdated for the modern digital world

With the Apache Spark initiative, IBM is investing in its own future too. It needs a technology ecosystem, where it is a player and has influence, even if it does not immediately profit from it

The company reports a 12% increase in net profit, to $2.4 billion

GE's announcement that it plans to sell off most of its big finance unit punctuates the transformation of the company under Jeffrey Immelt

The application of data science to fields like medical diagnosis raises questions of when human supervision of an algorithm's results is needed

The start-up is a curious creation of the internet era, a hybrid of the digital and physical worlds, which is an online retailer and an industrial designer, manufacturer and marketer

The partnership is intended to spread advanced mobile and data analysis technology in the corporate world

Hardware sales fall, layoff costs rise

So much of the computing agenda today is motivated by the problems that the big internet companies face