Claire Cain Miller

Many parents who work at small start-ups report that they were the first person at the company to have a child, and often there was no existing parental leave policy

The biggest change is that the companies are trying to improve same-day delivery with software

American companies and universities are evolving to encourage women, particularly in fields where they are underrepresented

Passes law requiring Europe's biggest companies to give 30% of supervisory seats to women

US cloud computing industry could lose billions of dollars in business because of the govt's surveillance programme

It is the strongest effort by the companies, often arch-rivals, to speak with one voice to pressure the govt

Companies like Google and Facebook are finding new ways to track people on their phones and reach them with individualised, hypertargeted ads

The search giant has been accused of gathering data about internet users and showing them related ads

Firms deposited data in online vaults that govt had access to

It is part of YouTube's strategy, started a year ago, to lure television viewers and advertisers

The internet search giant is negotiating with another firm to design fashionable eyewear frames in which it can put its cutting-edge augmented reality head-mounted display, to make them readily accept

Microsoft has long attacked Google from the shadows, whispering that Google was a privacy-violating, anticompetitive bully

It is part of YouTube's strategy, started a year ago, to lure television viewers and advertisers

Ryan and Dwight Merriman run a start-up factory called AlleyCorp, after Silicon Alley, a nickname given to New York's answer to Silicon Valley