Electronic signature company DocuSign saw its stock jump as much as 10 percent on Thursday after it reported strong results in its first earnings statement as a public company. Here’s how the company did: Earnings: Excluding certain items, 1 cent per share, vs. loss of 7 cents per share as expected by analysts, according to […]

Microsoft isn’t looking to make money from GitHub by placing ads on the site for storing code, GitHub’s next leader said on Thursday. The sentiment reflects Microsoft’s broad intent to be careful not to cripple its latest acquisition and not alienate the site’s tens of millions of users. In a question and answer conversation on […]

An “overwhelming majority” of the Senate is united against the Trump administration’s deal to end sanctions on China’s ZTE – and will “absolutely” try to block the agreement, Sen. Mark Warner told CNBC on Thursday. Earlier in the day, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced the deal on CNBC, which includes a $1 billion penalty against […]

About 14 million Facebook users who thought they were posting a message just to friends or smaller groups may have actually been sharing it widely with the general public due to a software bug, the company said Thursday. The bug, which was active from May 18 to May 27, changed users’ privacy settings without them […]

Google says it won’t use its artificial intelligence technology for weapons or surveillance, with a few caveats, according to a list of ethical principles published by CEO Sundar Pichai. The company will still work with the government and military in other areas, including cybersecurity and training, and it will only avoid surveillance that violates “internationally […]

Moves by two major companies in the cryptocurrency space this week could be evidence that regulation is smoothing out, which could bode well for struggling bitcoin prices, according to one closely-followed analyst. “We believe the regulatory picture is now improving—best evidenced by Coinbase and Circle ‘running towards’ regulation,” Fundstrat Co-founder Tom Lee said in a […]

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says the company is too dependent on him. And that makes him nervous. At the Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., on May 30, Recode’s Kara Swisher asked the tech executive, “What’s the thing that scares you the most, right now, as CEO?” “What scares me the most is that […]

Warren Buffett and Jamie Dimon want companies to get away from a short-term approach to management and are therefore suggesting they ditch quarterly financial forecasts. But quarterly guidance — which only 28 percent of companies offered in 2016 — is only part of the problem. The bigger problem for boards and CEOs is a fear […]

AthenaHealth co-founder and CEO Jonathan Bush announced this week that he’d step down amidst a takeover battle. In his goodbye memo to employees, he acknowledged his own obsolescence — a refreshingly rare point of view in tech circles, where company founders are often viewed as indispensable. As he put it, “the very things that made […]

The U.S. Department of Justice is examining how the proposed merger between T-Mobile US and Sprint could affect prices for smaller wireless operators, according to two people familiar with the matter. A T-Mobile and Sprint merger would eliminate competition between the two carriers that have been the dominant players in selling network access to wireless […]