It is frighteningly easy to dupe the public with statistics, since most journalists and readers aren’t trained in all the sophisticated ways pollsters can make subtle changes to research that make a gigantic difference in the outcome. Recently, a near-paranoid picture of the American public made its way around the media cycle, thanks to a “study” commissioned by TrustE , a web security company, on privacy.

Why is the cloud so hard to make funny?

There’s something very cool about Google Now , which the company announced at its I/O developer conference a few weeks ago.

Editor’s Note:  This is Redpoint VC’s Tomasz Tunguz’ second article in a series examining trends in the public and private technology markets. Last week, we discussed four trends in the public technology markets

The Samsung Galaxy S III continues to be one of the hottest Android phones we’ve ever seen. When I reviewed the phone, I said flat out that this is the phone you’ve been waiting for

Hope you got your 16GB Nexus 7 already. Google is no longer taking orders for the $249 model. It’s sold out

Startups seeking desk space in San Francisco will soon have another option to consider — the first floor of the offices of gift-giving startup Wantful , an area that it’s calling the Sutter Street Workspace. It’s a pretty common practice for startups, in anticipation of future growth, to move into offices that are too big for their current workforce, then rent out the excess desks to other companies.

Short Version Motorola made plenty of waves when it introduced the Droid RAZR for Verizon last year, and somehow I doubt AT&T was very pleased with that move.

Huawei has its sights set on the US market. The Chinese manufacturer aims to be within the United States’ top 5 mobile phone companies within the three years. In order to reach that goal the company needs some impressive hardware — and marketing

The day my app ( AutoCAD WS ) crossed one million downloads on the App Store, the first question that crossed my mind was how did I ever end up doing marketing? I was a techy product manager and never imagined myself in marketing, until my app was in a life or death situation. The startup I co-founded (which was later acquired by Autodesk) developed a CAD B2B app for engineers