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If you want to watch videos on the latest version of the Apple TV, you have a few options available, including Netflix and YouTube. But one option that isn’t available is game streaming app Twitch. Amazon, which acquir...

Exactly four years ago, Groupon Inc's initial public offering was priced at $20, valuing the company at $13 billion.

Halo 5: Guardians has sold more than $400 million in its first week on the market, setting new records according to video game publisher Microsoft. That pushes the lifetime sales of the Halo series to more than $5 billio...

Travel booking site Expedia has agreed to buy publicly traded vacation rental company HomeAway for $3.9 billion, the companies announced today. It’s a big deal partly because it validates the growth of rapidly expandin...

King, the Candy Crush Saga game publisher which has agreed to be acquired by Activision Blizzard for $5.9 billion on Monday night, reported earnings for the third quarter that beat Wall Street’s estimates. The results ...

Facebook’s user base is nearing a mobile majority. Today the company said it now has 1.55 billion monthly active users. Of those, 727 million only access the service on mobile -- up from 655 million in July. This isn't...

Facebook has released its Q3 2015 earnings, saying that it generated $4.50 billion in revenue and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.57. “We had a good quarter and got a lot done,” said chief executive Mark Zuckerberg...

Facebook now has more than 1.5 billion users, more than 1 billion of which use the service daily. More specifically, in its third quarter 2015 earnings announcement today, Facebook revealed it now has passed 1.55 billion...

Fashion mogul Stacey Bendet is building a billion dollar company while changing the game for working moms.

Chevron's Fuel Your School program leverages DonorsChoose.org to provide up to $8.8 million to school classrooms this year, impacting nearly 1 million students.

Byron M. Huang's recent article in the Yale Journal of Law and Technology- Walking the Thirteenth Floor: The Taxation of Virtual Economies has me feeling vindicated. Taxation of transactions within virtual worlds may ha...

PureCars built out a cash-flow positive, high growth business far from Silicon Valley and NYC. Here's how the digital advertising startup grew to a $125 million payday in cash.

Facebook’s breaking news app Notify could be launching next week, according to a report by The Financial Times. It’s said that the app will contain content from “dozens of media partners” including Vogue, The Was...

Less than a day after San Francisco voters went to the polls to decide on the city’s future, one particular ballot measure received quite a bit of attention. Proposition F, the so-called “Airbnb law”, sought to res...

Cloud storage company Dropbox today announced the launch of Dropbox Enterprise, a tier of service that builds on Dropbox Business and is obviously geared toward the biggest businesses. New components of Dropbox Enterpris...

Google today announced new features coming to its Google Drive apps for Android and iOS. Some are available today while others will be trickling out “in the coming week or so.” You can download the latest versions no...

Venture philanthropy firm New Profit is launching an initiative under the direction of Lexi Barrett to move "America Forward" and solve the country's biggest challenges.

Some 40,000 tech geeks descended upon Dublin this week to attend, speak at, report on, sell and/or demo their wares at one of the biggest and most condensed web events in a sea of such events globally.

Last week, the Security and Exchange Commission signed off on new regulations under the JOBS Act allowing average investors to buy equity in startups on crowdfunding platforms--think Kickstarter but with actual equity fo...

Brandcast CEO Hayes Metzger talks about how digital technology is transforming advertising.

RelayRides was a ride-sharing darling turned struggling startup. Now rebranded as Turo and with $47 million in fresh capital, its founder says it's a market leader in travel-based car sharing poised for success again.

SAN DIEGO, California — Wendell Brooks says he has some big shoes to fill. Come January, Brooks will become the new president of Intel Capital, which is investing more than $500 million in tech startups this year and h...