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Half a year ago, serial entrepreneur had a crazy idea: build a social network that people actually paid for. Now with App.net three times bigger than his goal, he looks back -- and ahead -- at what the service is, and wi...

Sorry PlayStation 3 owners, your console doesn't get first dibs on Redbox Instant.

Zynga got some of its mojo back in the fourth quarter, reporting a narrow profit on higher-than-expected revenues. As the largest social gaming company with a big presence in mobile games, Zynga has become a bellwether f...

Equidity's outspoken founder and CEO Mona DeFrawi sees some major structural problems with the IPO process. Namely, she said that markets have shifted from being investor-focused to trader-focused, and "no-one has notice...

At Startup Grind in Mountain View, Dave McClure drops pearls of wisdom (and profanity) about what it takes to build a successful startup.

Hailo, a mobile cab-hailing app, raised $30 million in its second round of funding and plans on opening its services in New York this month. It ill have fierce competition, however, from Uber.

Adblock Plus will no longer block advertising on community news site Reddit by default, the Germany-based Adblock developer team announced today.

By creating a low-risk way for developers to port their Android apps to BlackBerry 10, BlackBerry aims to bolster its app selection.

Tim Danford will be focused on building out the firm's incubation program for super early-stage startups, and exploring new opportunities in the mobile and enterprise security space.

Popular photo-sharing service Instagram has finally brought users' feeds of filtered photos from mobile apps to the web.

Innovation is dead at Dell -- or at least according to HP, which says that Dell's proposed buyout is going to spell bad news for Dell's customers.

Today, Exec is busting out all over -- all over the Internet with its pretty new web interface, and all over San Diego with its first non-San Francisco Bay Area expansion. The redesign will emphasize Exec's two main area...

Viddy CEO and co-founder Brett O'Brien has been ousted from his role as head of the company after losing much of its buzz to Twitter-owned Vine and reportedly turning down an insane buyout offer from Twitter.

Dell has reached an agreement to go private; a move that marks the end an era for the third largest computer maker.

It may have been awkward and it may have been inappropriate and it was probably sexist, but Go Daddy's Super Bowl ad featuring supermodel Bar Rafaeli and -- yeah, let's be straight-up -- a fairly ugly geeky dude, totally...

Contrary to earlier reports, the FCC is not planning a nationwide Wi-Fi network. Sorry, wireless fans!

So how do we come to any concrete conclusions about small business social media use? The answer is simple: we can't. Much like social media itself, within the small business community it's an ever changing ecosystem that...

MoviePass has launched its subscription service for going to movie theaters for the Android platform, an important step to make sure more consumers can actually use it.

If you have the good fortune of having started and sold a company for over $1 billion, you have many pleasant options ahead of you. For Paula Long and John Joseph, the option they chose was to start a company that puts a...

The good news, if you're PayPal, is that almost three quarters of Americans know about you and your digital wallet solution. The bad news is that under half of them really understand what a digital wallet is.

BlackBerry's latest alpha device shows that it isn't likely to give up on hardware keyboards anytime soon

Best Buy, Target, and GameStop will begin selling Ouya in June for $99.99.