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This is what Yahoo is spending $1.1 billion on.

An interesting amateur iPhone 6 concept video shows a phone that can project a Mac keyboard from one side and Mac display from the other.

Pinterest is unveiling a new pin structure for different types of products and an integration with a large number of retail brands, as it continues buildng up the platform and paving the way for growth.

Yahoo’s move aims to make up for years of missing out on the growth of social networks and mobile devices.

Social media users -- mainly younger people from Tumblr's user base -- have already had a strong reaction to Yahoo's potential purchase.

Samsung will be displaying a 13.3-inch notebook with a 3,200x1,800 (WQXGA+) pixel resolution.

A cyberunit of the People’s Liberation Army in China appears to have resumed its attacks using different techniques, hitting several of the same victims it has gone after in the past.

25 brief, delicious years

Salt, an essential element for all animal life, is abundant here on Earth, but it still requires extraction from stone deposits or salty waters

The following letter from my attorneys was delivered to Jennifer Allen this afternoon, in response to her previous claims. I believe the letter speaks for itself. The original PDF of the letter is ...

Ted Nelson, the American academic who in 1963 coined the term hypertext, and is therefore viewed as one of the World Wide Web's founding fathers, just released a 12-minute video with a big reveal at the end: The inventor of bitcoin, says Nelson, is...

Today's press conference is the most important sale of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's career. Her company's future depends on convincing Tumblr's users to believe in her vision.

A far-flung team is trying to build the first digital lifeform to work out the basic principles of the brain.

Travelling through Rome from one site to another there is one set of ruins that you cannot fail to see. The Roman Forum (Forum Romanum). In the heart of Rome

I’m delighted to announce that we’ve reached an agreement to acquire Tumblr!
We promise not to screw it up. Tumblr is incredibly special and has a great thing going. We will operate Tumblr...

It's done, ladies and gentlemen.

As expected, Yahoo this morning announced its acquisition of blogging phenomenon Tumblr. The Internet giant has bought the six-year old New York ...

Recent events, tragic and triumphant, emphasize the social web’s role as a central source for disseminating breaking news. But getting the facts right continues to be a challenge, and a solution requires cooperation and technical innovation.

Happy Guests Lodge near Warrington, England, offers a goldfish in its hotel rooms to cheer up lonely guests.

Silicon Valley and Wall Street are taking note of bitcoin, which has drawn prominent investors like the Winklevoss twins.

Get ready to rock. Twitter is about to launch its long-rumored standalone music app Friday, according to a report. The app's existence was rapidly becoming one of the worst-kept...