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Dhingana, a five-year-old mobile music service, announced Thursday that it’s raised $7 million in a Series B round Read More

I can’t help but feel vaguely nervous about Apple’s future.  Once again, the company fell short of analysts’ Read More

Holy moly, Amazon.  Analysts didn’t have high hopes for this quarter, but they weren’t expecting the bloodbath that Read More

Since becoming CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer has put her mark on the company through her hires, filling Read More

Zynga’s stock jumped 15% in early trading Thursday, after posting quarterly results that beat its lowered outlook from Read More

I can’t really do video chats.  Something about the idea of someone staring at my face while I Read More

Is it fair to say that you have a crappy website if you need the digital equivalent of Read More

Just two days after Square announced its plans to relocate its corporate headquarters to the Mid-Market neighborhood in Read More

Japanese social gaming company GREE has been on a spending spree the last couple of years, gobbling up Read More

Splash SF finalist Playmysong is a free app and web service that allows users to both play songs Read More

(Updated to reflect correct series round) Room rental website Airbnb has confirmed that it raised a $117 million Read More

(Updated to reflect comments from Mark Mahaney) Yelp has purchased Qype, Europe’s largest local reviews site, for $50 million, it Read More

(Updated with information from Doug Anmuth, closing stock price) After slightly beating Wall Street expectations in its third Read More

No Apple event is complete without number-dropping.  I kind of look forward to it.  Something about its regularity Read More