Pinterest buys social recipe search engine Punchfork.
Federal regulators concluded Thursday a 19-month probe into Google’s search and patent-licensing practices, and in the end took no action against Google’s search rankings that favor its own products over competitors.
The Federal Trade Commission is announcing what the agency is calling the resolution of its antitrust investigation into Google.
Foursquare lifts old limits on sharing infromation with merchants.
While Zipcar investors count their cash from today’s half-billion-dollar acquisition by Avis, the rest of us can start counting the days until we can say good riddance to one of the suckiest aspects of city life: car ownership.
The past year was supposed to be a period of recovery, but for a lot of people it didn’t feel that way. Bookended by a deepening European debt crisis, and the United States’ own fiscal cliff, global markets and economies …
A new breed of tech startup wants to bring the “underbanked” into the financial mainstream. But are they just peddling the same old payday loans with a Silicon Valley sheen?
A new wave of social networks are helping police and residents fight crime more collaboratively.
Entreprenuer, author and investor Tim O’Reilly has been seeing around corners for decades now. Here’s what he sees coming next.
For Facebook, another puzzle piece of its business model falls into place. For users, gift giving becomes by default a public rather than private activity. For our culture, however, an era of subtlety and “secret” Santa gives way to the …
Here are the superheroes of tech, both real and fictional, you told us on Facebook you most wanted to be.
Path lets you bring in updates and photos from Facebook, Instagram and Foursquare. Now, it’s letting you search all those social memories too.
New York-based startup iCouch offers therapy with a licensed psychotherapist via computers and mobile devices.
A big mouth, and deep pockets just joined the battle to change what many see is a broken patent system.
Video advertisements are reportedly coming to Facebook.
A group of tech heavyweights, including Apple, Google and Facebook, have joined forces to purchase approximately 1,100 digital imaging and processing patents from Eastman Kodak for $525 million.
If you were a consumer internet company, lousy would be one word to describe the IPO market in 2012. Just ask Facebook. Then again, if you were an enterprise technology outfit or a financial services firm going public this year, …
Google’s YouTube Capture app is the latest sign it’s trying to cozy up to iOS users even as Apple tries to ice it out.
If you are an Apple disciple now is a time of internal conflict. Retailers like Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Radio Shack and Target just cut the price of a brand new iPhone 5 by $50 or more. Meanwhile, Wall Street analysts …
While massive retailers like Best Buy, JCPenney and Walmart grapple with how to build bridges to the online shopping world, all the hottest ecommerce companies, including Warby Parker, Bonobos and Betabrand, are getting into the bricks-and-mortar business. Now you can …
Comparing the cash pouring into Apple’s App Store versus its app marketplace competitor Google Play isn’t much of a contest. Even though there are more Androids in the wild, iOS is still winning.
A federal probe into Google’s search results could soon end with a settlement that largely keeps the U.S. government out of its business. But one of the search giant’s most vocal critics says that however toothless the potential deal, Google …
The National Rifle Association appears to have gone into social media lockdown mode.
Amazon is building some serious advertising technology.
A lot of magical thinking sometimes goes through marketers’ heads as they try to snatch their pieces of merchandising gold from one of the most valuable franchises in history.
A self-funded, small-time entrepreneur thinks startups are aiming to high. So he set up a half-serious fund to help them aim lower.
Best Buy announced Friday that it is giving the billionaire the month of February to present his financing plan. That likely means he hasn’t been able to come up with the cash to do the deal.
Shares of solar panel installer, sales and leasing company SolarCity (SCTY) had a stellar Nasdaq debut Thursday, climbing from $8 to end the day at $11.79, a 47 percent gain.
Google Maps and Google’s Gmail help make Apple’s smartphone the best in the world. Why is the company helping its rival? Ads and confidence.
The fighting has escalated again today in the great taxi-app wars of 2012. But no matter who wins, you the humble passenger will come out on top in 2013.