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When you think of event planning and ticketing services, companies like Ticketmaster, Eventbrite, Ticketfly, and Ticketleap probably come to mind.

New hardware companies are one of the hottest trends in the startup world. 

Instead of building apps and Web services, companies are building real physical hardware that you can buy and use.

Tumblr was recently acquired by Yahoo for $1.1 billion. Which early employees hit the jackpot with their stock options?

We rounded up 14 of the earliest employees at Tumblr.

Earlier this week, an administrative law judge in New York City ruled that a man renting out his East Village apartment through Airbnb violated the city's law.

Google is considering a bid for Israeli mapping startup Waze, Bloomberg News reports.

Waze is a mapping app for smartphones that's infused with cool social features.

Here's a chart of Amazon from analyst Benedict Evans.

As you can see, for its life, Amazon's net income has essentially been flat fluctuating between small losses and small profits.

Tinder, the extremely popular iPhone dating app, just launched a new matchmaking feature.

HP is facing the decline of several key businesses, but it still has talented engineers and execs that are coveted by other enterprise tech vendors.

Mobile Insights is a daily newsletter from BI Intelligence delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers.

Stanford's Graduate School of Business is the most selective MBA program in the world, accepting only 7% of the people who apply.

The tech community has been going crazy recently over the release of Google Glass for developers.

With over 770 million GPS-enabled smartphones, location data has begun to permeate the entire mobile space.

Former Google, YouTube, and Facebook executive Ben Ling is joining Silicon Valley venture capital firm Khosla Ventures.

Nokia has a new flagship phone, and it's called the Lumia 928. 

Unlike the six-month-old Lumia 920, the Lumia 928 is a Verizon exclusive.

Nokia has a unique approach to its smartphone business.

Even though it has other options, it still chooses to make its best phones with Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 operating system, which isn't nearly as popular as Google's Android.

Nokia has another new Lumia phone, the Lumia 928. 

It's pretty much the same device as the older Lumia 920, but sports a different design.

Microsoft has a second tablet ad that bashes the iPad. In his ad, Microsoft simply lists some features Windows 8 has that the iPad doesn't.

Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz just announced that it invested $60 million in a startup called Zimride.

Kim Dotcom claims to own the patent for two-step verification, password technology used by Google and Twitter, reports The Guardian.

Eminem's song publisher Eight Mile Style is suing Facebook and its Portland ad agency Wieden+Kennedy for allegedly copying his 2000 song "Under the Influence.