Half of all small businesses fail in the first four years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For technology startups, that number can range from 70 to 90 percent, depending on the source.

The initial coin offering market was white hot in 2017, raising a record $4 billion in capital investment. Data also shows that of the 902 token sales launched last year, 46 percent of them have already failed. Nevertheless, investors aren’t deterred from continuing to dive into the token pool, nor have companies shied away from ...

As guests mingled among the appetizers and food at Accenture’s Technology Vision event last month in San Francisco, California, jazz music played in the background. The band improvised a number of classic standards, which was noteworthy because one of the players was Shimon, a robot, and it was playing a mean marimba. The presence of ...

Cryptocurrency investor Bradley Rotter likes talking about technology with teenagers because he says they have a good sense of not just where tech is now, but where it may be going. The vice chairman of Rivetz Corp. first heard about cryptocurrency from a 15-year-old, and another member of the teen set persuaded him to purchase his first token in ...

Ethereum, a decentralized platform for applications powered by Ether cryptocurrency, has emerged as a major player in the world of smart contracts. These contracts, computer programs stored on the blockchain, can execute agreements between parties in multiple ways, thanks to the work of an important sector of the technology ecosystem: developers. “We were really good ...

With the rise of digital currencies and other use cases based on the ultra-secure blockchain technology, software developers have a unique opportunity to create new protocols that have real value. Meanwhile, industry analysts openly wonder whether some technology companies, sitting complacently on legacy models, are missing the significance of fast-moving developments in the cryptocurrency world. ...

Artificial intelligence is creeping inevitably into daily life, and there is no shortage of opinions about what that may mean for the future. Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a prediction last fall that whoever emerges as the leader in AI will rule the world. Tesla Inc. co-founder and Chief Executive Elon Musk has suggested in ...

When Ken Xie (pictured) was a student at Stanford University in the early 1990s, the network security world was a different place. Security was based on software firewalls running on personal computers and servers, which Xie capitalized on with his first company — Systems Integration Solutions, Inc. As the computer industry matured, Xie realized that ...

When it comes to dealing with cybersecurity and building a network of partners to service its customers, Ingram Micro Inc. has been especially active over the past year. In the month of February alone, the company announced a deal with mobile software vendor Lookout Inc., sealed a new partnership with Kaspersky Lab Inc., and inked a ...

The theme at Fortinet Inc.’s Accelerate conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, this week is “Strength in Numbers,” based on the need for a collaborative environment where partnerships can generate the solutions necessary to secure networks in the future. It’s an important task, especially since the numbers surrounding the current global threat environment are rising at ...