When he was head coach of the NFL’s New England Patriots in the 1990s, Bill Parcells was once asked if he thought he should be involved in acquiring players for his team. “If they want you to cook the dinner, at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries,” Parcells said. ...

Mark Phillip has always been a fan, but when he maxed out his credit cards to bootstrap his fledgling sports viewing digital business, his zeal suddenly became more than just a game. The Brooklyn-born, Austin-based, MIT dropout (pictured) had an idea in 2006 that there could be a market for sports fans who didn’t have the time to ...

Work continues long after the workday is done, the pressure is intense, management is in chaos, and vacation is only a dream. Welcome to the glamorous life of an information-technology professional. It may not come as a surprise to those who work in IT, but a recent survey conducted by Cohesity Inc. has found that ...

At the current rate that VMware Inc. is buying companies, the 21-year-old virtualization and cloud computing software provider might need to add another hall for its upcoming VMworld gathering in San Francisco, set to begin on Monday, Aug. 26, just to accommodate the increased headcount. On Wednesday, VMware announced that it would acquire Intrinsic, a ...

A little over six years ago, top executives from VMware Inc. stood on a Las Vegas stage and, in front of hundreds of partners, expressed incredulity that the company could be outsold by a bookseller. “I look at VMware and the brand reputation we have in the enterprise, and I find it really hard to ...

The stage is set for the world to find out what might happen if petrochemical, gas and power plant safety systems designed to prevent catastrophic accidents are disabled by malicious hackers. In summer 2017, a security consultant discovered malware that was set to deliberately override safety systems in a Saudi Arabia chemical facility. The malware, ...

Since human trafficking today has become a $150-billion major enterprise, why not fight one big business with another? This is the strategy that the nonprofit Polaris Project has put in place to combat human trafficking by serving victims with a national hotline, a massive data set, and enlisting the support of large corporations to be ...

When Cohesity Inc. announced that it secured a new $250 million round of funding last year, it was not so much the amount of money that attracted notice as the major names involved. Noted investors SoftBank Vision Fund, Morgan Stanley and Sequoia Capital Operations LLC generated attention along with funding from Cisco Investments and Hewlett Packard Enterprise ...

Over the past 12 years, more than 49,000 cases of human trafficking in the U.S. have been reported to a hotline that receives an average of 150 calls per day. That’s one of many statistics that drives the mission of the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children, an organization dedicated to eradicating child abduction, ...

Most companies wait until a new product or project is completed before writing a press release to announce it. At Amazon.com Inc., the press release gets written before work even starts. It’s a process the company calls “working backwards,” where a product manager will write an internal-only press release to announce the finished result. The ...