Geeks are now shaping new products and servicesUnderstanding the deadliest fire in the state’s historyA Brazilian fund manager has caught the eye of investors around the worldTechnology firms are competing to become consumers’ personal secretaries, with big implications...To succeed these days, authors must be more businesslike than everThe accelerated life and times of the world’s most valuable startupA hedge-fund manager with a low profile and a big followingTech giants are investing billions in a transformative technologyOther industries have a lot to learn from HollywoodSome private technology firms are having trouble justifying their lofty valuationsThe company’s “refounder” boss saved it from conflict and possible irrelevanceBuilding a big ad business will help the firm to keep expandingVenture capitalists are bright, clannish and almost exclusively maleAn overdue tribute to an exceptional painterThey could eventually receive the kind of scrutiny that banks received after the financial crisisThe tech boom may get bumpy, but it will not end in a repeat of the dotcom crashTHE buildings on the studio lot of China Film Group, a vast government-owned companyWhy the bottom has dropped out of the antiques marketWhen Alexandra Suich, The Economist’s US technology editor, bought a puppy and gave it a baby name, she joined a growing pack of pet ownersWhy the phone-hacking affair has left Rupert Murdoch better offNow is not a good time to be a manHow technology firms keep track of journalistsYet Coinbase’s future depends on volatile appetite for the currenciesCanada’s public pension funds are changing the deal-making landscapeShe can be reached at alexandrasuichbass [at] economist [dot] comThe world’s mightiest tech companies are building monuments to their success.

A report on the social media ads bought by Russia during the election with Alexandra Suich Bass of The Economist. These days he splits his time between Dallas, where two teenage children from his first marriage live, and San Francisco, home to his fiancée, Alexandra Suich, US tech editor of The Economist. You might also like. Alexandra Suich Bass is The Economist’s Senior Correspondent for Politics, Technology and Society, covering a range of political and public policy topics.She is based in both Dallas and San Francisco. Alexandra Suich meets Lyft’s co-founder, John Zimmer, and asks why Silicon Valley is so obsessed with winning. The techies who figured out how not to pay for an Uber, or a mattress, ever againBeds and sofas that can be stored on the ceiling will make tiny apartments feel biggerFrom canine ice-creams to pet cams, there’s a growing industry built on people who treat their animals like children Copyright © The Economist Newspaper Limited 2020 All Rights ReservedSan Francisco is becoming a capital of wealth and culture. Alexandra Suich Bass. Now it is a totemic investment, tooAs tech firms battle to hire and hoard talented employees with huge pay packages, Silicon Valley may be changed for the worseAlexandra Suich meets Lyft’s co-founder, John Zimmer, and asks why Silicon Valley is so obsessed with winningGreat success has brought high costs and structural changeAlabama and West Virginia are among the pioneersTheir eccentric buildings offer clues about how people will workA small, technophile country is a great place to test digital productsA stirring debut—and denouementNapster’s founders demonstrate the challenges of entrepreneurial second actsLobbying over Comcast’s bid to create a cable-TV behemoth is coming to a headMaking money by bringing old ideas to new marketsFor all its success so far, the social-media firm may not achieve the scale many investors hope forThe musicals business is bigger, more global and more fabulous than everA tech talent-spotter has come to dominate Silicon Valley’s startup sceneThe world’s largest asset manager has done well out of the crisis. Alexandra Suich Bass, U.S. Technology Editor for The Economist Alexandra Suich Bass. The taxi-hailing company is likely to disrupt the delivery businessThe fight against crooked trading gathers paceWhat if tulips had been six feet tall and ran at 50km an hour?Digital-mapping services are increasingly in demandBig, rich and paranoid, they have reams of data to help them spot and buy young firms that might challenge themA network of wealthy donors has a mission to push politics to the rightThe wonderful world of ESPN, the sports network which outmints Mickey MouseNew VR headsets are being launched, but the technology’s appeal is uncertainMedia empires are becoming more focused, and shareholders like itAmateur journalists create jobs for professional onesThe ride-hailing giant must fix its reputation. People in this video Alison Stewart Alexandra Suich Bass Category Politics. is ... Alexandra Suich follows Ken Fulk, the interior designer who is guiding the taste of the tech elite. Alexandra Suich Bass is The Economist’s senior correspondent for politics, technology and society, covering a range of political and public policy topics.