AT&T and Cigna are funding Republican groups led by election objectors they had promised to stop supporting
Companies paused their support for 147 GOP lawmakers after the Capitol riots. Now, some are giving to the groups those Republicans oversee.
A new program puts Amazon in position to take a big slice of $50 billion in government spending. Sellers worry that it gives Amazon too much power.
Through a Trump-era program, the government can buy directly from Amazon and circumvent traditional buying rules. But smaller suppliers are worried.
Tech talent is flocking to work with the Biden administration, after insiders say the Trump era created a dark period for Silicon Valley and government tech
After the Trump era, technologists are again showing interest in public service, and groups like USDS and 18F are hopeful for rebuilding under Biden.
How techies are using 'sketchnoting' to break down complex topics and reach a wider audience
Tech workers are "sketchnoting" at conferences, which can help make presentations more memorable and assist speakers in reaching a wider audience.
Chinese and Russian hackers now have unprecedented access to American corporate emails after staging massive cyberattacks. Here's what they're actually doing with it.
Chinese hackers opened up the gates to marauding thieves. Russian hackers are patiently setting up for a stealthy spy game. Both are in US emails.
Amazon's Asian employee group asks for 'explicit' support following Atlanta spa shootings, while leadership stays mostly silent — read the full email here
The email was one of the few messages Amazon employees received following the fatal shooting incident late Tuesday.
Here are dozens of the tech titans and Hollywood celebrities who are Iconiq Capital clients — and 10 ultra-wealthy moguls who quietly bailed
Iconiq got its start managing money for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other tech elites. Now it's moving into Hollywood.
$925 million voice recognition startup Pindrop just acquired competitor Next Caller to accelerate its path to an IPO
CEO Vijay Balasubramaniyan told Insider the acquisition brings Pindrop closer to an IPO, which the company is planning in the next two years.
Startup IronNet is going public via a $1.2 billion SPAC deal, and its founder says it's to accelerate the development of its cybersecurity tools to protect America
Retired US Army General Keith Alexander, formerly the nation's top cybersecurity official, says "we're not ready" for the next sweeping cyberattacks.
Zoom's former CIO explains what it was like navigating the 'chaos' of the pandemic boom — and why he's now joining marketing startup Birdeye
Zoom's corporate CIO Sunil Madan helped the company IPO and manage its incredible growth during the pandemic. Now, he's joining startup Birdeye.
Ransomware hackers tripled their average payout to $312,493 last year. Here's why the problem is only getting worse, Palo Alto Networks researchers say.
A Palo Alto Networks researcher explained why ransomware attacks are surging — and why the trend isn't likely to slow down.
Meet PyLadies, the women-led group helping 120,000 coders across the globe land jobs and diversify the popular Python programming language
With only 3% of open source contributors identifying as women, PyLadies is working to bring diversity to the mega-popular Python programming language.
Amazon's 'underappreciated' B2B unit is on pace to become an $80 billion marketplace. And execs from Citi to Uber are praising it this week.
Amazon's business marketplace could hit $80 billion in sales volume by 2025. It's hosting its first conference with speakers from Citi and Uber.
Why 5G is a huge enterprise opportunity the cloud giants have already moved in on
5G networks are on the horizon, and cloud giants are already partnering with major telcos to capitalize on the multi-billion dollar opportunity.
GitHub and eBay use this 'simple and stupid' framework to make smart choices when choosing cloud software and infrastructure — here's how it works
Companies like GitHub, ThoughtWorks, and Nubank use these Architecture Decision Records to keep track of decisions in their tech stacks and projects.
Startup Highspot is now valued at $2 billion thanks to an investment from Salesforce and Bain, and it has big plans to help salespeople close more deals with AI
Highspot helps companies develop better sales collateral and build bridges between sales and marketing, founder and CEO Robert Wahbe tells Insider.
Google's secretive X lab is working on its next big hit. Here are some of the bets that could take off, and the people leading them.
X is home to some of Alphabet's weirdest and most ambitious ideas. Here are some that the lab is working on right now.
HEALTH TECH'S ROLE IN THE NEW OFFICE NORMAL: How digital health firms are helping US employers facilitate return-to-work programs amid the coronavirus pandemic
Here's how tech giants and digital health companies are using their tech and clinical expertise to help US businesses with their reopening plans.
Tens of thousands of Microsoft Exchange customers are under assault from hackers, and experts are warning of unprecedented damage
Tens of thousands of customers' Exchange Servers remain un-patched and vulnerable, and attacks on the world's most popular email product are spiking.
30 current and former Mailchimp employees detail the conditions that led to a 'mass exodus' of women and people of color
Mailchimp employees repeatedly complained about problematic executives and bosses. They say the company turned a blind eye.
Got an NDA at your tech job? We want to hear from you.
Nondisclosure agreements are the basis of Silicon Valley's culture of secrecy. Help us peel back the curtain to understand how we got here.
Stripe is now valued at $95 billion, making it the most valuable tech startup ever as its CFO says that its European business could be bigger than in the US
A new $600 million round from Sequoia Capital and others pegs Stripe's valuation at $95 billion — beating out Elon Musk's SpaceX.
Leaked Iconiq fund data reveals how the ultra-secretive wealth-management firm invested $5.4 billion in dozens of startups — and how its bets have quadrupled in value
Iconiq Capital, the firm that made its name managing Mark Zuckerberg's fortune, has expanded into the venture capital business. It's going well.
A new top Intel exec explains how he's preparing the firm for its challenging next chapter
Intel's data platforms group CTO joined about a month before former VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger took the reins as the chip giant's new CEO.
The chief innovation officer of $96 billion ServiceNow explains how new low-code and AI tools will help people be more productive
ServiceNow's AI and low-code updates help it deliver on its mission to make work work better, chief innovation officer Dave Wright told Insider.
America isn't in a cyberwar with Russia and China — it's actually the most sophisticated spy game in human history. And the US is much stronger than it looks.
Welcome to the new Cold War, where three cybersecurity rivals hack into each other with the most sophisticated espionage tools in human history.
Twitter's surprise counterattack to hold politicians accountable
In this week's Insider Tech, we look at the battle for facts between Big Tech and politicians, and we pull back the curtain on Iconiq Capital.
How Jeff Bezos picked Andy Jassy: Amazon executives detail how the company’s intense succession planning process works
Amazon uses an effective yet little-discussed tactic to prepare for leadership changes. It could help it smoothly transition to the post-Bezos era.
Inside Iconiq: How Mark Zuckerberg's banker built a secret Silicon Valley empire and made billions
Iconiq has made tens of billions of dollars off startup investments, leaked data shows, and is recruiting A-list celebs including Tom Hanks.
Apple is suing a former advanced materials engineer, accusing him of stealing trade secrets for a journalist
Apple accused an 11-year veteran of stealing insider info, including about top-secret projects, to gain positive media coverage for his startup.
We identified the 175 most powerful people at Microsoft. Here's our exclusive org chart.
Insider reviewed Microsoft's official internal organization chart to identify Nadella's direct reports and the people who report directly to them.
Larry Ellison says over 100 SAP customers are switching to Oracle, but SAP blasts the claim as 'spurious'
Oracle signed "contracts totaling hundreds of millions of dollars" in the third quarter alone from customers switching their ERP software from SAP.
This engineer realized she was underpaid thanks to transparency with coworkers. Now, her tech-salary survey aims to help others.
Almost 2,200 people have taken part in the survey, which asks questions about respondents' job title, location, company size, salary, and experience.
Why students and privacy activists say remote-testing software heightens anxiety and sets 'dangerous' expectations
Privacy advocates say the technology amounts to "stalkerware" and forces students to sacrifice more privacy than necessary.
Verkada allowed at least 100 employees, including interns and sales staff, to access customers' camera feeds
Employees had extensive access to "Super Admin" accounts, which hackers used this week to hack 150,000 Verkada cameras, Bloomberg reported.
Russia tried to slow down Twitter and accidentally broke the internet in the country. Here's what happened.
The move to crack down on the tech giant after its refusal to remove objectionable content backfired, with the Kremlin's site also going down.
The CEO of red-hot developer security Snyk explains how it quadrupled its valuation to $4.7 billion in a year and won over investors like Accel, Salesforce, and Google
CEO Peter McKay explains how its new $300 million funding round brings it closer to an IPO — but likely not any time soon.
Eye-popping stats about Roblox, the wildly popular game platform that spiked 15% in its public-trading debut
As of September, Roblox's gaming platform had more than 30 million daily active users flocking to its more than 18 million games.
Flatfile's founders describe how they used a personal frustration to 'rage-design' a product that just raised $35 million
Flatfile's cofounders started their software as a side project while working at Envoy. They've now raised funding from Scale Venture Partners.
How edge computing has become a $250 billion 'perfect complement' to cloud computing
"Edge computing is actually a counterbalance to the cloud," Gartner analyst Bob Gill told Insider. It refers to a model in which processing power is placed closer to where data is being created in the physical world.
Salesforce reportedly scrapped plans for additional office space in San Francisco following its decision that most employees will only come into the office a few days per week
The decision follows Salesforce's announcement last month that it would adopt three new ways of working going forward.
Hackers breached security company Verkada and accessed 150,000 cameras inside Tesla, hospitals, and jails
The cameras, some of which use facial recognition to identify people, also let the hackers breach Verkada customers' networks, Bloomberg reported.
Bret Taylor is reportedly preparing to step up as Salesforce's next CEO. Here's why Marc Benioff's most powerful lieutenant is the only real choice.
COO Taylor's profile in the company has risen tremendously in recent years and he's long been rumored to be Benioff's successor.
Amazon has over 800 people working on its secretive 'Vesta' home robot — but insiders are worried that it's a niche, gimmicky product that could fail
Amazon has put a giant team behind its secretive home-robot project, but lofty expectations and production hiccups have some worried it'll fail.
I'm a cofounder of a Silicon Valley startup that pays everybody what we're paying ourselves: a flat $180,250. Here's why it's right for us.
Giving his 23 employees a uniform salary sets the tone for teamwork and "new levels of candor," writes Oxide cofounder Bryan Cantrill.
Analytics startup ThoughtSpot just raised $20 million from $60 billion Snowflake — and it plans to IPO when it fulfills three goals
Snowflake invested in ThoughtSpot as it takes on rivals like Salesforce's Tableau, Google Cloud's Looker and Microsoft's Power BI.
HEALTH TECH'S ROLE IN THE NEW OFFICE NORMAL: How digital health firms are helping US employers facilitate return-to-work programs amid the coronavirus pandemic
Here's how tech giants and digital health companies are using their tech and clinical expertise to help US businesses with their reopening plans.
XDR is the hot cybersecurity trend to watch, driving M&A and millions in funding for companies that can help IT departments guard against a new breed of security breach
"Extended detection and response" – otherwise known as XDR – is cybersecurity's hottest trend and best bet against new attacks like SolarWinds.
Roblox is going public after a blockbuster year. Here's how and why it paid out more than $328.74 million to its largely teenage developer community last year.
Roblox hit 31 million daily gamers in September 2020 and its valuation soared from $4 billion to $30 billion in a year. Here's how its platform works.
A massive hacking campaign is targeting flaws in Microsoft's email software — and experts say it could be 'a thousand times more crippling' than the SolarWinds hacks
Experts told Insider that Exchange users should assume they're affected and take emergency mitigation steps.