Claire Cain Miller

Claire Cain Miller: A family-friendly Silicon Valley

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

Delivery start-ups are back like it's 1999

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

Breaking the glass ceiling

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

Germany sets gender quota in company boardrooms

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

Snooping saga: NSA spying costs US tech firms

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

Tech giants call for limits on govt surveillance of users

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

Selling secrets of phone users to advertisers

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

Google accused of wiretapping

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

Google alters search to handle complex queries

Google offers some detail about how it transfers data to US govt

Tech titans shared online data with US officials

Firms deposited data in online vaults that govt had access to

New policy meant to raise morale: Yahoo

YouTube to serve niche tastes by adding channels

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

Google searches for style

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

Former Washington political brawler now battles for Microsoft

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

Retailers try to adapt to device-hopping shoppers of the Internet age

YouTube to serve niche tastes by adding channels

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

Incubator jazzes up Big Apple's image as 'Silicon Alley'

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

Motorola to lay off 20% of workforce