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When you think of event planning and ticketing services, companies like Ticketmaster, Eventbrite, Ticketfly, and Ticketleap probably come to mind. But event planners often times need more than just ticketing services.  Enter Splash, a one-stop shop for…

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.  A lot of these find life on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter,…

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. They were the site's first users, template designers, and friends of David Karp's.…

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.  New York City has a law that makes it illegal for people to rent out their homes or apartments for…

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. For example, users can tap an icon to alert other users that they saw a highway patrol,…

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. Its revenues, on the other hand, have skyrocketed. This is the Bezos-way.…

Tinder, the extremely popular iPhone dating app, just launched a new matchmaking feature. Matchmaker allows users to create a match between any two of their Facebook friends for any reason. Once the couple has been matched the two friends can then chat in…

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.  HP’s Vertica unit is one part of the company that's getting a lot of attention these days, especially from…

As recently as late 2010, mobile commerce was only 3% of e-commerce. By the end of last year's holiday shopping season, that number had risen to 11%, according to comScore. That's approximately $18.6 billion in consumer spending - and that doesn't even…

Mobile Insights is a daily newsletter from BI Intelligence delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. Sign up for a free trial of BI Intelligence today. Twitter's New Ad Tools Are All About The Second Screen…

The FTC has launched an antitrust probe into whether Google's dominance of the display ad business on the web hurts competition, Bloomberg reports. The assessment, which is preliminary and may not develop into a full investigation, is looking at whether Google…

David Karp, founder of $1.1 billion Tumblr, attended the Webby Awards Tuesday night. There, he received some advice from a fellow New York entrepreneur who sold her company for a boatload of cash, Arianna Huffington. Huffington and her co-founders sold The…

Stanford's Graduate School of Business is the most selective MBA program in the world, accepting only 7% of the people who apply. Harvard accepts 12%. It's ranked 1st by US News and Business Insider, and 2nd by the Financial Times.   Located in the heart of…

The tech community has been going crazy recently over the release of Google Glass for developers. We gave it a try as well. Will it be the next revolutionary device? Will it be a bigger hit than the iPhone? Is it worth the price? We won't know for sure until…

With over 770 million GPS-enabled smartphones, location data has begun to permeate the entire mobile space. The possibilities for location-based services on mobile go beyond consumer-facing apps like FourSquare and Shopkick. It's powering advertisements, and…

Former Google, YouTube, and Facebook executive Ben Ling is joining Silicon Valley venture capital firm Khosla Ventures. There, he'll be leading investments in small mobile and Internet startups that he believes can grow up into huge, multi-billion dollar…

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. Otherwise, it's basically the same phone but with an uglier design. Check it out for yourself in our hands-on video…

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. It's a bold bet that…

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. You can read the full review of the Lumia 928 right here, and check out the gallery below to see some of the best…

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. We doubt this helps Microsoft's weak Windows tablet sales, but it's much better than its previous ads which show people…

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We are in the post-PC era, and soon billions of consumers will be carrying around Internet-connected mobile devices for up to 16 hours a day. Mobile audiences have exploded as a result. Mobile advertising should be a bonanza, similar to online advertising a…

Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz just announced that it lead $60 million investment round in a startup called Lyft. Lyft is a car-sharing/semi-pro taxi service. How it works: You open an app on your smartphone to summon a driver to…

Kim Dotcom claims to own the patent for two-step verification, password technology used by Google and Twitter, reports The Guardian. Two-step verification is a means of logging in to a site with a one-time-use password sent to your mobile device every time you…

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." The publishing house filed a 12-page formal complaint in a federal court in Detroit on Monday. The…