Check Point president: Firewalls aren't enough

We talk to Amnon Bar-Lev about security trends at this year's RSA Conference.

FORTUNE -- This year's RSA Conference, an annual gathering of the nation's top information security executives, has already had its share of controversy. But most of the companies in attendance -- both big and small -- are there simply to show off their latest and greatest cybercrime-fighting technologies.

Lucky for them, the growing number of high-profile cyber-attacks have led MORE

How to tell the difference between Box and Dropbox

The two cloud storage startups can be easily confused.

FORTUNE -- Quick -- name a cloud-based, file-sharing provider that's expected to go public later this year and has the word "box" in its name. (Hint: there's more than one right answer.)

Whether you guessed Box or Dropbox, you're correct. That's because, on the surface, the two appear to be very similar companies, especially now that both startups are nearing their respective IPOs MORE

IBM Watson chief departs to join Silicon Valley venture fund

Exclusive: Former Watson Solutions GM Manoj Saxena takes his cognitive computing expertise to The Entrepreneur's Fund.

FORTUNE -- Three years ago, IBM's (IBM) Watson made its public debut on the television game show Jeopardy!, where it beat its human competition. Since then, the game show-playing supercomputer has branched out to other pursuits -- trying to serve the more serious needs of the health care and financial services industries, for example. Now, one MORE

Meet Microsoft's new (old) head of Lync and Skype

Fortune talks to Gurdeep Singh Pall, who will lead Microsoft's Lync team once again as the company's comms competition stiffens.

FORTUNE -- Chief executive officer Satya Nadella isn't the only Microsoft (MSFT) exec with a new role. Gurdeep Singh Pall, also a longtime company insider, was recently named head of the Skype and Lync communications products. He makes his public debut later this week at the Lync Conference in Las Vegas.

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This Flickr co-founder wants to rid the world of e-mail

How? With a young company called Slack.

FORTUNE -- Stewart Butterfield hasn't had a hit since Flickr, the photo-sharing site he sold to Yahoo (YHOO) back in 2005. But with Slack, his newish company's latest offering, the serial entrepreneur thinks he's on to something big -- a potential replacement to clunky, cumbersome e-mail systems.

"When I first started making software everything was Microsoft (MSFT)," says Butterfield. "Now every company has its choice MORE

Google dials into the teleconferencing business

Chrome for the corporate masses? The folks in Mountain View take a hard look at a market of extremes and aim right down the middle.

FORTUNE -- The latest piece of hardware from Google (GOOG) is Chromebox for Meetings, a $999 kit that the company says is a cheaper, simpler alternative to existing teleconferencing and videoconferencing systems like Cisco's TelePresence (CSCO) and Polycom's RealPresence (PLCM). Up to 15 participants can join MORE

Shape Security's bid to battle botnets

A young company's new approach to cybersecurity promises to protect websites that, by their nature, expose their underlying code.

FORTUNE -- There's a reason why you don't hear much about security startups -- there aren't that many out there. Unlike social media tools or mobile apps, developing cybercrime-fighting software can take lots of time. And most investors, not to mention customers, don't want to put their money and trust in a twentysomething, MORE

Qualcomm: We want to connect everything, not just phones

At this year's Consumer Electronics Show, the company's strategy has little to do with the smartphones that make up most of its revenue.

FORTUNE -- Smartphones are soooo 2013.

At this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, mobile chipmaker Qualcomm (QCOM) -- whose wireless components are found in the vast majority of the world's cell phones -- chose instead to talk about how its chips can be used for fledgling markets such MORE

Oracle's future: Cloudy with a chance of decline

Despite posting positive quarterly earnings, the enterprise technology company is viewed as a laggard.

FORTUNE -- Oracle had some positive pre-holiday news for investors this week. The database giant's second-quarter results came in higher than expected, with revenue rising 2% to $9.28 billion, and net income declining about 1% to $2.55 billion.

Yes, that was good news. The quarterly numbers sent Oracle (ORCL) shares up more than 6%, the highest in years.

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Qualcomm's new CEO: Steve Mollen-who?

You can be forgiven for not knowing Steve Mollenkopf's name. Or even the name of the highly successful semiconductor company he's been tapped to run.

FORTUNE -- If you hadn't heard much about Qualcomm (QCOM) COO Steve Mollenkopf until last week, you're not alone. On Thursday, Bloomberg reported that Microsoft (MSFT) was seriously considering the longtime wireless executive for its top job, along with a long list of potential successors, including former Nokia MORE