Startups

“The challenge is that the market perception is we’re very much a consumer company and that we’re part of the security problem.” To shake that, Patrick Heim will have to show how cloud service providers like Dropbox, and many large consumer Internet companies, can manage cloud security as well as or better than the enterprises themselves.

How a waiter at the West Hollywood restaurant Craig’s connected CBS chief executive Leslie Moonves to Manny Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach.

You cannot transform a large complex organization through business-as-usual objectives, CIO Journal Irving Wladawsky-Berger writes. A more entrepreneurial management style open to continuous experimentation is essential for any serious chance of success.

What you should read today about small business, from Germany’s move to boost startup funding to Yahoo’s plans for acquiring young businesses.

A roundup of venture-capital news and analysis from VentureWire and around the Web.

Three years after it made a splash with its novel approach to news delivery, the mobile news app Circa said it is putting itself up for sale.

Speaking at Stanford University on Thursday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Japan should emulate the spirit and creativity of Silicon Valley’s technology scene.