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"Who are those people? What is the opposite of a Genius Bar?"

After stabilizing the design culture at Yahoo amid much turmoil, the well-known user experience exec leaves the sketchbook to CEO Mayer.

Danish mobile games company Kiloo's most popular app, the runner game Subway Surfers, has racked up 175 million downloads since it launched one year ago. In that time, the game has been played 5.5 billion times, the company said in a press release today.…

Can the City by the Bay finally get the newspaper it deserves?

After a poor reception in the U.S., Facebook has asked France Telecom and its British joint venture not to start selling the Facebook Home-equipped device, at least for now.

It would be pretty amazing if the company said its first original show did as well as "The Walking Dead." But Netflix says it didn't say that.

Cloud services outfit Box announced today that it had acquired the technology behind the Folders iOS app and brought aboard its developer, Martin Destagnol, to help integrate its features into Box's app. The IPO-bound Box also recently picked up…

The former Google, Facebook and Badoo exec is the second high-profile Silicon Valley operating exec the VC firm has hired of late.

A massive amount of product to move in the first month after the device's commercial debut.

A new leader for the high-profile gadget maker.

Not surprisingly, Kutcher is a big fan of Flipboard, Path and Couple -- all companies he has invested in.

Chinese personal-computer maker Lenovo Group Ltd. said profit in its latest quarter rose 90 percent from a year earlier because of cost controls, stronger pricing and robust shipments.

Apple today said the keynote address for its annual Worldwide Developers Conference will occur at 10 AM PT Monday, June 10, at Moscone Center in San Francisco. Not a big surprise, as that is the day the event kicks off. Speakers for the keynote have not been…

Exec ho! A new big hire at Yahoo.

The peer-to-peer ride-sharing company brings down a huge round.

Twitter makes another play for TV ad money, with "TV ad targeting."

The key is not to blindly apply the strategies that have been made famous through popular books and movies.

TaskRabbit says it will have lower fees and much more transparency than a traditional temp agency.

Yahoo said it had bought PlayerScale, a small gaming infrastructure startup for cross-platform gaming. Yahoo has been on a bit of a tear in buying up small companies for low prices, to strengthen its talent and expertise in a wide variety of arenas, including…

Time is not on HP's side, analysts say.

Twitter is stepping up its video ads plans by adding a new list of advertisers to a program it has been tinkering with for the past few months, and giving the product a name: Twitter Amplify. New partners include Discovery, Time Inc. and Major League Baseball;…

What happens when you bring the "Wedding Crashers" dudes to the fictional -- but also non-fictional -- Googleplex.

The Isle of Man is the headquarters for PokerStars, the largest online poker company in the world by a wide margin. And it is from this unusual perch the company is playing a difficult hand: just two years after being shut down in the U.S., and with its…

Radios and neighborhood patrols are so last year.

Mailbox, the iPhone email app that some folks really love -- and that Dropbox loves so much it paid many millions for -- is now available for the iPad. The swipe-to-triage service still only works with Gmail, but it has been modified with panels to fit the…