Gary Shapiro is the CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, which hosts the annual electronics extravaganza in Las Vegas called CES. With CES starting next week, we check in with Gary to learn about some of the highlights of the show -- and what the

Steven Hillion is the chief product officer of big-data startup Alpine Data Labs and Tim Guleri is managing director at Sierra Ventures, which invested in Alpine. We talk to them about big data: What is it, really? And how do you figure out which big-data

It's almost the end of 2014, and that means it's the perfect time to look back on the highlights and lowlights of the year in tech. New Relic's Fred Paul joins the VB team to talk about what Facebook and Apple tell us about the year -- and we also give yo

Deena Rosen heads up the user experience (UX) team at Opower, a company that is using data analysis and behavioral science to help people reduce their power consumption. She joins us this week to talk about big data and the new era of "behavioral design."

Sucharita Mulpuru is a Forrester analyst who focuses on mobile commerce, e-commerce, and retail. We talked with her to find out more about the holiday shopping season online and on mobile -- and to find out where (and when) the best deals are online. Plus

Jonathan Rosenberg is the co-author, with Eric Schmidt, of the new book "How Google Works." We talk with him about some of the management and innovation secrets that helped make Google into one of the most successful technology companies in history. Plus:

Today on What to Think, we talk with Michael Beach, a cofounder of Targeted Victory. The company provides programmatic advertising across all screens and other services for Republican political campaigns.Plus: how deep learning could change the game for m

With the midterm elections over, we check in with Bryan Whitaker, chief operating officer of NGP VAN, a company that uses technology to support the campaigns of Democratic and progressive political candidates. We talk with him about how the company uses d

Aneesh Chopra was the first chief technical officer for the White House and was one of the architects of the federal government's open data initiative, Data.gov. He's now working with Box and with a new startup, Hunch Analytics. We caught up with him to t

Steve Jurvetson is a Partner at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and currently sits on the boards of SpaceX, Synthetic Genomics, and Tesla Motors. He was the founding VC investor in Hotmail, Interwoven, Kana, and NeoPhotonics. Also, we tell you what to think abou