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Japanese sports equipment manufacturer Mizuno Corp. is tapping into the wearable market, an industry that is expected to balloon with the introduction of the Apple Watch.

The attorney representing Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in the sex-discrimination trial brought by Ellen Pao exposed inconsistencies in her testimony before a packed San Francisco courtroom on Tuesday.

When Gigaom said it was unable to pay its creditors and would shut down, the media world reacted mostly with shock.

For the past year and a half, a Silicon Valley startup has quietly convinced some of the biggest names in venture capital to back its effort to turn the technology behind bitcoin into a mass-marketed phenomenon.

Data storage is a big business, inspiring investors to pump money into an array of startups. SimpliVity hopes to stand out from the pack, reaching a market value of more than $1 billion less than two years after shipping its hardware.

The U.S. and Europe are growing further apart when it comes to data privacy.

Berlin-based Rocket Internet decided it had met its match when it discovered Indonesian wedding website Bridestory.

Apple positioned the iPhone as a consumer product when it introduced its groundbreaking smartphone in 2007, and it has been pushing the device into businesses ever since. Determined to capitalize on that momentum, the company presented its Apple Watch on Monday with apps aimed squarely at business users.

Apple showed off its much-anticipated smartwatch, highlighting the product's look and features. The Journal is live blogging the Apple Watch event with news and analysis.

A week after announcing it will bring its security guards in-house as full-time employees rather than contractors, Apple said it is working with its shuttle-bus contractors to improve pay and benefits for its drivers.

A sex-discrimination trial that has riveted Silicon Valley reaches a crucial juncture Monday when Ellen Pao takes the witness stand to detail alleged mistreatment at storied venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

The White House’s proposed Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights, released on Feb. 27, drew immediate fire from both tech companies and privacy advocates. Now it’s taking heat from closer to home.

Tech bigwigs have political sway in many countries, but rarely can they be badge-carrying politicians while running their companies. China, as always, is different

Chinese leaders have made the passage of a cybersecurity law a priority for this year, despite protests from the U.S. against the country's growing restrictions on technology firms.

Weeks after Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers said it fired a partner accused of sexual harassment, he joined an office conference call with his accuser, an investigator said he was told, as testimony continued Friday in the much-watched Ellen Pao sex-discrimination trial.

Technology will have a bigger profile in the Dow Jones Industrial Average beginning March 19, after Friday’s decision to add Apple to the elite group of 30 stocks. But tech will still be underrepresented, relative to the industry’s importance on Wall Street and impact on the broader economy.

When Apple Inc. enters the blue-chip index, it will increase tech’s portion of the Dow 30 by 11.2 percentage points to 30.9%, according to S&P; Dow Jones Indices senior index analyst Howard Silverblatt.

Islamic State supporters used at least 46,000 Twitter accounts in late 2014, communicating in English roughly 20% of the time, according to a new analysis of the militant group’s use of social media.

Samsung Electronics is considering building a third manufacturing plant in India as the company looks to boost its presence in the region and cut down on costs.