One of the hottest startups of 2009 had to fend off investors this summer - even if many people don't understand exactly what the service does, or who is supposed to use it. Foursquare cofounder Dennis Crowley explains. Full story...
Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, unveiled his new project on Thursday: a Web site for charitable organizations.
No surprise, this after the company’s dismaying February warning: Palm’s earnings news today is grim — albeit a bit less so than some had feared.
Since the iPad became available for pre-order last Friday, Apple has sold hundreds of thousands of the device, say people familiar with the matter.
On Digits today, Walt explains Lenovo's attempt to broaden ThinkPad's brand appeal with its launch of two new laptop designs, which include a revamped keyboard.
Google's $1.65 billion purchase of YouTube is perhaps the best-known transaction of the Web 2.0 era. $1.
With Apple’s iPad scheduled to arrive at market in a few weeks, along with its iBooks e-reader, Amazon has preemptively launched a new beta of Kindle for Mac.
Chinese officials are masters of divide-and-rule, a tactic they’ve put to good use to enhance their bargaining position with the foreign business community.
Here are a couple of documents the Google team is pointing reporters to as it releases documents in its fight with Viacom: Evidence that the company's executives were interested in buying YouTube four years ago - in part because it wanted to beat News Corp.
And we're off. Court filings in the YouTube-Viacom suit were just unsealed, and we can finally read them for ourselves.
Sad news in Cupertino today. Apple board member Jerome York has passed away after reportedly suffering a brain aneurysm.