Alphabet Inc. Chairman John Hennessy is unsure about a banner strategy of the company's most-important executive.
Bloomberg From ACM Opinion | November 21, 2018
Western bigwigs were a no-show at China's biggest web conference. But in their absence, the local overseers of the nation's technology industry were only too happy...Bloomberg From ACM Opinion | November 9, 2018
In 2011 a young computer scientist named Jeff Hammerbacher said something profound while explaining why he'd decided to leave Facebook—and the promise of a small...BloombergBusinessweek From ACM Opinion | May 4, 2017
Alphabet Inc.'s Google unit introduced a new digital assistant Wednesday. Bloomberg News put the system through its paces by asking questions, some of which were...Bloomberg From ACM Opinion | September 21, 2016
Google's chairman thinks artificial intelligence will let scientists solve some of the world’s "hard problems," like population growth, climate change, human development...Bloomberg From ACM Opinion | January 11, 2016
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, Samsung introduced new software for its tablets, called the Magazine UX.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | June 26, 2014
The Internet has much to say about the recent ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union, which determines that if a person wants some personal information...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | May 19, 2014
The controversy over U.S. government surveillance has produced a king-size collection of strange bedfellows. Beneath the covers one finds both amusing ironies and...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | September 9, 2013
Imagine the government passed a law requiring all citizens to carry a tracking device. Such a law would immediately be found unconstitutional. Yet we all carry...Bloomberg From ACM Opinion | August 2, 2013
A very large Internet company once had the noble impulse to share some of its data with the research community.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | June 13, 2013
Consider the tongue. It's sensitive yet muscular, packed with taste buds and nerves, and without its acrobatic ability humans wouldn’t be able to eat or talk. It's...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | March 5, 2013
The Internet is not so old. Its graybeards live still. Vint Cerf, author of the Internet Protocol, has been installed as Google's "chief Internet evangelist," a...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | January 14, 2013
In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard University dorm room, hoping to see what his classmates were up to on campus. The following eight years...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | October 4, 2012
It's a Saturday afternoon in Palo Alto, Calif., and there goes David Cheriton, navigating the Silicon Valley suburb's tony downtown on his bike.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | March 6, 2012