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Abdullah Gül, the president of Turkey, is visiting the Googleplex right now—a stop on his first trip to California.

Some companies are like trees. They seed the world with executives that run the next crop of startups.

Facebook has released a new feature that shows advertisers the percent of fans that have seen and Liked specific posts on brand pages, Mashable reports.

BetterWorks, a Santa Monica, Calif.-based startup with a who's-who of Silicon Valley behind it, just announced it's shutting down at the end of the month.

Here's more evidence that enterprise tech is hot right now.

Infoblox beat estimates for its first quarterly results since going public last month.

Amazon, you should really be ashamed of yourself for this one. At the company's annual meeting today in Seattle, CEO Jeff Bezos promised that the company will spend $52 million this year to add air conditioning to its warehouses, reports the Seattle Times.

Shareholders just got a $75 million gift from Apple's CEO.

Apple's set to start paying dividends in July.

We were the first to tell you about HP's massive layoff.  Now that HP has come clean with some details, we'll be the first to tell you why it's not going to fix HP.

Eric Simons, a 19-year-old entrepreneur from Chicago, secretly squatted at AOL's Palo Alto campus for two months, reports CNET.

Legendary venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins is being sued by one of its partners, Ellen Pao, for discrimination and retaliation.

One of the most popular complaints about Apple's iOS operating system is that it forces the user to exist in a "walled garden.

Note: Ben Huh posted this account of his jump off the 150-foot Corona Arch to The Best Thing This Year, a mailing list that allows members to post one note per year.

Instead of taking the boring route and getting someone a gift card during this season of graduations, parent holidays, and weddings we put together this list of gadgets that is sure to make those you care about happy.

The Jetsons-like future that we were promised is getting a little more realistic every day, and devices like Sony's HMZ-T1 3DTV headset are helping to deliver it.

Google announced today that it will allow Android developers to add in-app subscriptions to apps.

While the world was focused on Facebook's stock trading for the first time on public markets, the company quietly announced the acquisition of Karma, a social gift giving mobile application.

Another big loser on Facebook's first day of trading: Citadel.

CNBC's Kayla Tausche just reported that the Chicago-based fund lost $30-$35 million, which is about the same amount as Knight Capital reported that it lost in an SEC filing filed yesterday.

Google is officially a hardware company, now that its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola has closed and Google has placed Dennis Woodside in charge as CEO.

Here's a little tidbit that HP's CFO Cathie Lesjak slipped in during the company's analyst conference call: 9,000 jobs will be cut in HP's fiscal year 2012.

Enterprise file-sharing service Huddle has just raised a whopping $24 million led by Jafco Ventures.