Daniel Lyons

As if American workers don't have it rough enough, now there's another threat: robots.

Twitter is secretly fundraising for a huge valuation. So where have all its founders gone?

Here's how you'll protect your data online in the future.

A novel version of money is sprouting online, letting people shop in complete anonymity.

The computer nerds who defend us from cyberattack are the new Navy SEALs.

The social-networking juggernaut may be more vulnerable than it appears at first glance.

Content is supposed to be king. But in the world of electronic devices, Apple seems to be placing the crown on its own head, apparently believing that its iPad and iPhone are more important to customers than the books, movies, and music they store on them.

When authorities in Egypt shut down Internet connections during last week's uprising, hackers around the world started scrambling to create a work-around. Before they could succeed, the blackout was lifted. But now people are worried that similar shutdowns might occur in countries like Jordan, Syria, and Yemen—and so hackers are working to set up alternative networks in those countries, just in case.

With the Internet down across Egypt, Google and Twitter have come up with a way for Egyptians to tweet using their phones. Now, Dan Lyons reports, a group of hackers is close to delivering software that could turn laptops into low-cost Internet routers—and help protesters organize.

An ugly fight over money is threatening the future of Bono's Silicon Valley private-equity firm, Elevation Partners. After several rough years, a key founding partner, Marc Bodnick, is bailing out and fighting with Elevation's leader, Roger McNamee, over his share of the firm's profits, according to a person close to the company. The feud, which has been simmering in private, is now erupting into a nasty public battle.

For people who already have their hands full keeping up with Facebook, scanning Twitter tweets, and answering email too, here's a heads-up. The cool kids and big egos of Silicon Valley are busy colonizing a new social network—and soon you may want to as well.

A chip that links an iPhone to your bank account could break mobile commerce wide open in the U.S. and could be Apple's possible next category killer.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has gone on a medical leave. With luck this will be temporary, like his last medical leave, in 2009, when Jobs, a survivor of pancreatic cancer, received a liver transplant. But what if he doesn't come back? Ever since the previous time, people have wondered if the company could carry on without him.

The tech giant's announcement that cofounder Larry Page will succeed Eric Schmidt as CEO is no shock. But the timing is key.

Apple's astounding quarter and its immediate future without the boss.

With the Apple founder taking a new medical leave, his alter ego says he's retiring 'Fake Steve Jobs.'

With Apple CEO Steve Jobs back on medical leave—an indefinite one, unlike his last break—the company's investors, $300 billion worth of them, are forced to envision a post-Jobs Apple. And they didn't like the thought: shares fell as much as 10 percent before rebounding in overseas trading Monday.

The new year brings some radical new experiments in online media. First up is The Daily, a publication created by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. that's set to launch this month. You won't be able to read The Daily on a plain old Web browser. It will exist only as an app on the iPad (and, presumably, later on other tablets as well)—and you'll have to pay $1 a week for a subscription.

Now that Apple will be selling the iPhone on Verizon, is Google's Android smart-phone operating system doomed?

Here is how Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, describes the current state of affairs on the Internet: "Say I'm walking through a mall. And there's a guy following me."

Who says you have to be a guy to be a geek? This Google senior executive is teaching a new generation that femininity and technology are a winning formula.

If you improve teachers today, the country doesn't see the benefit of that for 15 years or so. So to be in this business you have to have a long-term view.

Are we headed for another hangover?

Roughly 95 percent of the world's consumers live outside the United States, yet small merchants in the U.S. don't pay enough attention to them. That's the conclusion of a study conducted by PayPal, which looked at transaction data in 11 countries during the first half of 2010 to find out how much cross-border commerce is taking place on its network.

Coupons?! Who'd have thought?

Since the beginning of the internet era it has been pretty widely accepted that when you join an online service, whatever data you put into it belongs to you.

What happened to the Netroots? That's what I've been wondering ever since the Republicans routed the Democrats last week. Two years ago, a lot of people—myself included—really believed that all those online activists who helped elect Barack Obama were going to stick around and support him as he pushed through a sweeping list of progressive measures.

A cautionary tale for Web 2.0 companies.

For the past few years, tech companies have been trying to find a way to bring the Internet and television together, without much success.

Facebook has been finding clever ways to wring revenue out of companies like Zynga that live in its ecosystem.