Lee Fixel, a partner at investment firm Tiger Global Management, is bringing Wall Street to Silicon Valley.

Over the past few years, Mr. Fixel, a former emerging markets analyst based in New York, has become a go-to advisor in Silicon Valley and the technology industry. He's shared his global take on the industry with the likes of LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, SurveyMonkey chief ...

Businesses are only as good as their people, and in the technology and media industries, talent doesn’t often stay put for long.

Clashing cultures, strong personalities and strategy shifts often send big names to the exits (see former Apple executive Scott Forstall and former Microsoft executive Steve Sinofsky in the list below). Even the most senior managers get antsy and start ...

Amid all the buzz about wearable devices, something’s missing: software worth wearing.

I had never met Richard Hagberg, but that didn’t stop him from telling me I was too disorganized.

Last year, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston called a shrink.

The battle among technology companies to take over the living room is getting even more crowded.

Across Silicon Valley, employees are cashing out.

For years, the Valley's conventional wisdom has held that allowing employees to sell some stock before an initial public offering would reduce their drive and hurt retention. Sales began happening anyway, but behind employers' backs on the secondary markets.

But there has been a behind-the-scenes explosion of secondary offerings being ...

As more companies jostle for a piece of the payments pie, Facebook has decided on an unlikely strategy: win by giving in.

Visa and MasterCard are so dominant in payments that new entrants have struggled to compete. Most players piggyback on the credit card processors’ network. They typically charge merchants fees in addition to those levied by the card companies, and that has made ...

Shortly before GetGlue upgraded its mobile app earlier this year, an executive there emailed a heads-up to Horst Govin. Mr. Govin, who works at Apple, suggested some tweaks to the service, which helps people share information about what TV shows they're watching. A few weeks later, Apple promoted GetGlue in the App Store’s “New & Noteworthy” section.

Mr. Govin works ...

Dear Readers,

Technology news needs a reboot. There are more stories and outlets than ever, but a troubling cycle is playing out:

• The race for pageviews and ad dollars is causing publications to focus on quantity over quality.  
• Coverage is consolidating around attention-grabbing topics, like the latest hot startup or celebrity CEOs. Publications are ...

This is the first in a series of articles reporting on major themes for the technology business in 2014. 

Lackluster performance among old-school technology companies attracted the activists in 2013.

Next year those agitators – investors who push big strategy changes in the hopes of a big stock-price bump – will be casting around for new ideas. And Cisco Systems, which ...

Silicon Valley is abuzz over equity crowdfunding, whether it will upend the traditional venture capital model or be a flash in the pan.