My Reporting

With bylines in The Next Web and VentureBeat, I have authored thousands of articles exploring groundbreaking tech innovations. My reporting covers not only B2C and B2B startups, but also enterprise platform developments, hardware advancements, artificial intelligence, new developer tools, and vertical-specific tech advancements such as those in advertising and finance. Through informed and impactful storytelling, I explore the role of technology in transforming our world.

Here are a few selected articles from my time at The Next Web and VentureBeat that best demonstrate my storytelling, reporting, and writing expertise.

Airbnb co-founders take the stage during the company’s customer conference in Los Angeles on Nov. 17, 2016. Credit: Ken Yeung

Forget Homes: Airbnb Wants to Own Your Entire Trip

A Pinterest sign hangs outside the company's offices in downtown San Francisco on May 1, 2016. Photo credit: Ken Yeung

Behind Pinterest’s Push to Make the World Pinnable

Samsung Galaxy S7 smartphone with the YouTube app. Photo credit: Ken Yeung

Google Is Building YouTube Connect, a Livestreaming App to Take on Periscope

With the release of "Star Wars: Force Awakens," Disney unveils new toys for purchase. Credit: Ken Yeung

Disney Unleashes Star Wars Toys Months Ahead of ‘Force Awakens’ Release

Xiaomi signage at CES 2017. Credit: Ken Yeung

Xiaomi Courts U.S. Interest While Flirting With Expansion

Facebook Introduces Home, a Launcher for Android Devices That Puts People Ahead of Apps

LinkedIn Revamps Its Mobile App: A Bold Step Forward for a Stagnant Service

An AI-generated image of a computer keyboard and mouse on a desk. Credit: Adobe Firefly

What Is Tor and Why Does It Matter?

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SoundHound’s Virtual Assistant Launches out of Beta to Take on Siri, With Support for Uber and Yelp

Inside YouTube’s Massive LA Studio Where It Hopes to Foster Content That Will Rival Television and Cable

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Is Technology the ‘Superman’ That the Education Sector Has Been Waiting For?

A sign marks the location of Facebook's first office in Palo Alto, Calif. Credit: Ken Yeung

Facebook at 10: How It Grew From a Social Network to a Social Phenomenon

The 4 Ways Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs Will Reshape Enterprise Computing

Cloud Communications Platform Twilio Files for $100 Million IPO

Getting picked up by an Uber at the airport. Credit: Uber

Uber Bets Its API Will Transform the Way We Ride in 2016

Facebook's Vice President of Messaging Products, David Marcus, speaks to developers at the company's F8 conference on April 12, 2016. Credit: Meta

Facebook Just Validated the Bot Movement for Businesses

An AI-generated image of a desktop telephone. Credit: Adobe Firefly

Twilio Adds Support for SIP Technology to Expand its Scope to Enterprise Customers

Social Lifeblood: Twitter’s Postmaster on How Email Provides the Pulse for Social Networks

Salesforce’s Platform Training Program Is Now Used by 200,000 People

An AI-generated image of office workers in front of a visualization of data going to the cloud. Credit: Adobe Firefly

SAP to Embed Joule AI Copilot Into More of Its Enterprise Apps, Plans Microsoft Copilot Tie-Up

Stripe Wants to Modernize Commerce for the Internet Age

The ‘Race Starts Today’ in Search as Microsoft Reveals New OpenAI-Powered Bing, ‘Copilot for the Web’

An AI-generated image depicting a conversation taking place on a smartphone. Credit: Adobe Firefly

Sierra’s New Benchmark Reveals How Well AI Agents Perform at Real Work

A robot using a laptop with the Perplexity AI search engine on the screen. Image created using Adobe Firefly.

Perplexity’s Growth Upends SEO Fears, Reveals Crack in Google’s Dominance

The 4 Ways Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs Will Reshape Enterprise Computing

An AI-generated image of office workers in front of a visualization of data going to the cloud. Credit: Adobe Firefly

SAP to Embed Joule AI Copilot Into More of Its Enterprise Apps, Plans Microsoft Copilot Tie-Up

Intel's now-former CEO of Products Michelle Johnston reveals the company's Lunar Lake processor. Credit: Intel

Intel Reveals Lunar Lake’s Architecture, Showing How Its Flagship AI PC Processor Will Work

Intel Debuts the Xeon 6 Processor, Aiming to Modernize Data Centers to Tackle Enterprise AI Workloads

AI-generated image of a robot sitting at a computer running tests.

LiveBench Is an Open LLM Benchmark That Uses Contamination-Free Test Data and Objective Scoring

Samsung's Executive Vice President of its video display business, Won Jin Lee, after presenting at CES 2017. Credit: Ken Yeung

Why Samsung Is Building a Corporate-Wide AI Voice System

Square’s Success Story in Two Words: Small Businesses

Cloud Communications Platform Twilio Files for $100 Million IPO

"The Social Business Imperative," written by Hearsay Social CEO Clara Shih. Credit: Ken Yeung

Why Hearsay Social’s Clara Shih Pushes Companies to Think Digitally

Signage outside the Apple store at San Francisco's Union Square neighborhood. Image credit: Ken Yeung

Troubled Media Sharing Startup Color Labs Said to Be Acquired by Apple

Apportable cofounders Collin Jackson (left) and Ian Fischer (right). Photo credit: Apportable

Google Secretly Acqui-Hired Mobile App Development Startup Apportable

A robot using a laptop with the Perplexity AI search engine on the screen. Image created using Adobe Firefly.

Perplexity’s Growth Upends SEO Fears, Reveals Crack in Google’s Dominance

Samsung Galaxy S7 smartphone with the YouTube app. Photo credit: Ken Yeung

Google Is Building YouTube Connect, a Livestreaming App to Take on Periscope

U.S. President Barack Obama (L) smiles as he speaks with members of the Team America Rocketry Challenge competitors representing the U.S. Virgin Islands as he plays host to the 2015 White House Science Fair at the White House in Washington, March 23, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RTR4UJ3P Image Credit: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

Obama Administration Teams With Apple, HP, Boeing on New Wearable Tech Hub in Silicon Valley

Flipboard’s Mike McCue on the Last Startup He’ll Ever Do

The HP Spectre x360 (2017) 15-inch convertible laptop. Credit: Michael O'Donnell

HP Spectre x360 15-inch (2017) Review: Fantastic 4K UHD Display and Performance

Samsung's Chromebook Pro laptop provides high-performance power and support for Android apps. Credit: Michael O'Donnell

Samsung Chromebook Pro Review: Android Apps Steal the Show, Bugs and All

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Nest Is Releasing Its Weave Communication Protocol for Other Connected Devices to Use

Samsung Galaxy S8 Review: Design and Performance Impress, but Bixby Underwhelms

Intel Debuts the Xeon 6 Processor, Aiming to Modernize Data Centers to Tackle Enterprise AI Workloads

The 4 Ways Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs Will Reshape Enterprise Computing

Credit: Ken Yeung

Samsung Gear 360 Review: A VR Camera You Won’t Love—or Hate

Facebook Introduces Home, a Launcher for Android Devices That Puts People Ahead of Apps

Intel's now-former CEO of Products Michelle Johnston reveals the company's Lunar Lake processor. Credit: Intel

Intel Reveals Lunar Lake’s Architecture, Showing How Its Flagship AI PC Processor Will Work

LiveBench Is an Open LLM Benchmark That Uses Contamination-Free Test Data and Objective Scoring

Getting picked up by an Uber at the airport. Credit: Uber

Uber Bets Its API Will Transform the Way We Ride in 2016

Twilio engineering manager Kenny Hoxworth at the company’s Tweek hackathon on July 22, 2016. Credit: Ken Yeung

Inside the Hackathon That Keeps Twilio Innovating

Comma.ai founder and hacker George Hotz holds up the Comma Neo, the company's hardware to bring autonomous driving to compatible automobiles. Credit: Ken Yeung

Geohot’s Startup Comma.ai Open-Sources Its Self-Driving Car Technology

Stripe Wants to Modernize Commerce for the Internet Age

An AI-generated image depicting a conversation taking place on a smartphone. Credit: Adobe Firefly

Sierra’s New Benchmark Reveals How Well AI Agents Perform at Real Work

An AI-generated image of a desktop telephone. Credit: Adobe Firefly

Twilio Adds Support for SIP Technology to Expand Its Scope to Enterprise Customers

Bear Douglas, pictured at Twitter’s 2015 Flight conference in San Francisco, served as the company’s lead developer advocate. Credit: Ken Yeung

Here’s Twitter’s Argument for Why Developers Should Give It a Second Chance

Social Lifeblood: Twitter’s Postmaster on How Email Provides the Pulse for Social Networks

An AI-generated image of an AI assistant on a mobile device. Credit: Adobe Firefly

From Siri to Robots: How SRI Views Ventures and Why Innovation Requires Serious Long-Term Investments

Google signage outside the company's Chelsea, New York City office, taken on Oct. 9, 2024. Credit: Ken Yeung

How GV Handles the Unsexy Part of Growing Startups

An AI-generated image of a person in front of a dollar symbol. Credit: Adobe Firefly

Money Isn’t the Only Valuable Thing a VC Can Give a Startup

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Why Venrock Partners Gave Free Room and Board to 12 Startups Without Taking Any Equity

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KPCB’s Ted Schlein on Cybersecurity: We’ve All Been Breached

John Maeda from Automattic and former Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Design partner, at South by Southwest Interactive 2017 before presenting his annual #DesignInTech report. Photo credit: Ken Yeung

KPCB’s John Maeda: 3 Types of Design Every Company Needs to Know

Vint Cerf: Musings on Birthing the Internet, AI, and Wishing for the Star Trek Computer

Sam Altman and Jessica Livingston Explain Y Combinator’s Success

President Bill Clinton gives opening remarks at the 2016 Clinton Global Initiative event at the University of California, Berkeley campus on April 1, 2016. Photo credit: Ken Yeung

Former President Bill Clinton to Student Entrepreneurs: ‘Don’t Stop Dreaming’

The Golden State Warriors celebrate winning the Larry O'Brein Trophy in Game Six of the 2015 NBA Finals. Copyright 2015 NBAE (Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images) Image Credit: NBAE/Getty Images

How Tech Helped the NBA’s Golden State Warriors Win a Championship

Points around the world from paradise. Image Credit: Anthony Quintano/Flickr

Behind Hawaii’s Push to Be a Startup Paradise

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Reports of Email’s Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

The Golden 1 Center, the home of the NBA's Sacramento Kings, was built in 2016 and has been called the "21st century communal fireplace." Credit: Sacramento Kings

Inside the Sacramento Kings’ Arena That’s a ’21st Century Communal Fireplace’

Image credit: Ken Yeung

Product Managers: Who Are These ‘Mini-CEOs’ and What Do They Do?

President Barack Obama speaks at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas on March 11, 2016. Credit: Screenshot

Obama: Don’t Take an ‘Absolutist View’ on National Security vs. Civil Liberties

Square’s Success Story, in Two Words: Small Businesses

Twilio engineering manager Kenny Hoxworth at the company’s Tweek hackathon on July 22, 2016. Credit: Ken Yeung

Inside the Hackathon That Keeps Twilio Innovating

Flipboard’s Mike McCue on the Last Startup He’ll Ever Do

A sign marks the location of Facebook's first office in Palo Alto, Calif. Credit: Ken Yeung

Facebook at 10: How It Grew From a Social Network to a Social Phenomenon

Samsung's Executive Vice President of its video display business, Won Jin Lee, after presenting at CES 2017. Credit: Ken Yeung

Why Samsung Is Building a Corporate-Wide AI Voice System

U.S. Chief Data Scientist: Entrepreneurs Should Do a ‘Tour of Duty’ in Government