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That the Durov brothers started the Telegram instant messaging service while they were VKontakte executives is enough for a part-owner of VK to lay claim to Telegram, too.

Should being tracked while you are shopping inside a store be considered creepy? Or a great idea worth around $9 million?

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Tuesday's session are Coca-Cola, Intel, and Yahoo.

For years, China has been enjoying robust economic growth that has turned it into the world’s second largest economy.

NASA and SpaceX are blasting a bunch of lettuce into orbit.

Google and Facebook are now taking their war up into the sky, vying to provide potential new users not only with affordable devices and mobile services, but also access to the Internet itself.

If he wants to radically increase engagement, he'll have to do something no one in modern social science knows how to do.

Sponsored Post: Startup & Tech Mixer and Rubicon Venture Capital (formerly Georgetown Angels) are excited to kick off a new Speaker Series.

A standard for cloud resources makes it possible to trade infrastructure from many cloud providers on common exchanges, right alongside more traditional commodities.

Asked why SoftBank was expanding business at such a torrid pace, Son's answer: "A company's value is determined by challenge and evolution. A company that only defends whatever it has achieved will not grow bigger and st...

In light of recent mass surveillance leaks, this program will certainly upset privacy-minded Americans.

The Heartbleed vulnerability claimed its first known victim: at least 900 Canadian taxpayers, who had their personal data compromised in the middle of tax season. Canada’s tax agency made the announcement today, after ...

In recent conversations with some financial professionals, we were discussing their practices and how, like anyone else, they want to eventually retire. Many of them assume they have a business that they can sell to supp...

It isn’t news that congressional Democrats and Republicans have agreed to spend the time between now and the November elections messaging, rather than legislating. When it comes to domestic policy it has only two real ...

Today, Mozilla has named a new leader: One Chris Beard, who held various positions at Mozilla, including a CMO stint, for eight long years. Beard was instrumental in the success of the Firefox web browser and its adoptio...

I take great pride in announcing the second annual Forbes Women’s Summit: Power Redefined, taking place May 15th in New York City.

Another entertainment company just made a bid to purchase YouTube network Maker Studios -- watch out Disney!

The LEGO Idea Conference took place April 8-10 at the LEGOLAND Hotel and Conference Center in Billund, Denmark. Hosted by the LEGO Foundation (endowed by the LEGO Group’s founding family), the conference aimed at creat...

Consumers have faced a hellish few months of security threats, from the Target data breach to last week's Heartbleed bug.

Predictive lead scoring helps companies sell anything -- even PDF reading software.

Most Windows XP users aren’t in a rush to upgrade — at least, according to a survey by antivirus company Avast. Only 15 percent of Avast customers surveyed said they planned to upgrade from XP, even though Microsoft ...

I have a confession: I used to quickly become frustrated whenever I tried something new and I didn't quickly excel. Rather than attempting to master the new activity, I would moved on to another task, seeking a gentler l...