With the relaunch of Bloomberg Politics this week, Bloomberg is extending Businessweek?s polarizing design aesthetic further into the Web.

?We have a chance to rebuild the system. Financial transactions are just numbers; it?s just information.

AT&T is warning consumers about a data breach involving an insider who illegally accessed the personal information of an unspecified number of users. The compromised data includes Social Security numbers and driver?s license numbers.

The lifespan of the tracking cookie is about to expire. With the rapid emergence of mobile devices, the big three ? Facebook, Google, and Apple ? have turned to new and more potent methods for advertisers to keep track of you across multiple devices.

Your smart phone would be simpler if it didn?t have a camera. But it would also be a lot less useful. A paint can is a sublimely simple way to store paint. But it?s a dreadful way to interact with paint: It?s hard to open, hard to close, and guaranteed to make a mess every time you pour it.

During the H-bomb testing frenzy of the 1950s, a RAND Corporation researcher named Paul Baran became concerned about the fragility of America?s communications networks.

Apple Pay launches on Monday and the service stands to reshape the landscape, not just for consumers, but for retailers, restaurants, banks, credit card companies, mobile app developers, and more.

Technology companies have by their definition been about technology. So, who better to start and build such a company than a technologist? Prior to the internet, though, most pure technology companies had, if not a business/sales founder, a business/sales executive as part of the core team.

Milwaukee startup advocates have made a lot of effort over the past few years to inspire more local entrepreneurship.

So today we?re introducing The Periodic Table of Tech ? a resource for the tech community to understand the 118 key players in the ever-growing and ever-changing universe of tech investors and acquirers.