Business News Match Group, the Company That Owns Tinder, Just Filed for an IPO Match Group's portfolio of dating companies include Match, Tinder, PlentyOfFish, OKCupid and HowAboutWe.
Business News Ecommerce Shop Fancy Just Laid Off a Third of Its Staff The site, which was rumored to be in acquisition talks with eBay in September, is said to have scaled its team down to 10 or 15 from 45 a year ago.
Building a Business Here’s What the First Hires at Apple, Google and Other Top Tech Companies Are Doing Now Some made millions, others saw fortunes slip through their fingers, and some have joined or founded other startups.
Building a Business Mark Zuckerberg’s Grand Vision for the Next 10 Years of Facebook How the company can use its success to invest in long-term goals that will make it an even stronger company over the next decade.
Business News The Most Expensive Domain Names in Internet History A look at URLs that have sold for $1 million or more.
Building a Business Inside the Mind of Big-Time Investor Fred Wilson In this question-and-answer interview, Wilson discusses retirement, Tumblr's exit and getting over a difficult year.
Building a Business $30 Million Disaster: What Went Wrong at Clinkle The startup boasts big-name investors and a 22-year-old CEO at the helm, but its much-hyped mobile wallet app still has yet to launch publicly.
Building a Business Going to SXSW? Here’s Your Survival Guide. Fourteen things you need to know now if you're headed to the big event in Austin, Texas.
Building a Business Where Are They Now: Meet Facebook’s First 20 Employees A look at Facebook's early team, which you might have never seen before.
Business News This App Made $200,000 Right After It Premiered On ‘Shark Tank’ A video app was a major hit among the 'sharks' and customers, too.
Building a Business Why So Many Tech Founders Who Are Jerks Become Insanely Rich and Successful If 'startup DNA' is the idea that the world's best entrepreneurs have some inherent talent they were born with that made them successful, then many also share another characteristic: arrogance.
Business News One Silicon Valley Investor Has a Wacky Proposal to Carve Up California Into 6 Separate States The idea: Provide California residents, businesses and politics to 'start fresh.'
Building a Business Why Box’s Co-founder Turned Down a $550 Million Offer That Would Have Made Him ‘Phenomenally Wealthy’ At 26 Take all that cash? Nope. Entrepreneur Aaron Levie had bigger plans.
Building a Business Alleged Third, Ousted Snapchat Founder Suing Investors As the fast-growing photo sharing app gains momentum, a self-proclaimed third founder argues he rightfully owns one-third of the company.
Building a Business Billionaire Reid Hoffman Reveals LinkedIn’s 2004 Pitch Deck Along With Invaluable Startup Advice The LinkedIn co-founder and VC shares valuable insight on what entrepreneurs need to know when pitching their startups to investors.
Building a Business 12 Successful Tech Executives Who Wake Up Really Early If you want to be successful, you might have to roll out of bed a little earlier.
Business News How Tech’s Richest People Spend Their Vacations Millionaires and billionaires vacation a little differently from the rest of us. Take a look at these ridiculous summer properties.
Building a Business The Top 3 Reasons Startups Fail, According to a Man Paid to Save Them Surprisingly, running out of money is not the No. 1 reason.
Business News Zynga Stock Falls As Company Decides Not to Enter Real-Money Gambling Market The decision comes as the once-popular gaming company delivered a brutal second quarter earnings report.
Business News Gowalla Co-Founder Leaving Facebook, Has Plans for a New Project After a year and a half at Facebook, Josh Williams says he plans to stay in San Francisco and 'work on something new.'
Business News Books Inspiring Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Other Tech Entrepreneurs These books helped shape tech's most influential leaders.
Building a Business 4 Reasons Google Bought Social Mapping App Waze The tech giant already is already a leader in maps, but here's why the billion-dollar acquisition can make sense.
Building a Business How Instagram’s Co-Founder Spent His Year After Facebook’s $1 Billion Acquisition A look at Kevin Systrom's last 12 months -- by way of his Instagram photos.
Building a Business Tech Startups That Turned Down $100 Million Buyout Offers The smartest entrepreneurs know when their time is up.
Business News 5 Apps to Help Unclutter Your Life These tools can clean up email spam, store and organize documents, and more.
Building a Business The Unusual Way One Media Startup Grew to 10 Million Readers in a Year Upworthy's strategy: In with the old, out with the new.
Building a Business 10 Mistakes Your Business Might Be Making on LinkedIn You'll want to steer clear of these no-nos on the professional networking site.
Building a Business Sean Parker: Running a Startup Is ‘Like Eating Glass’ The Napster and Airtime co-founder says too many people with terrible ideas are founding companies.
Building a Business The New Kid Craze: A Tiny, Squishy Toy in a Plastic Bubble Pull with mommy bloggers and big-box stores helped an entrepreneur create a new fad. Look out, SillyBandz.
Building a Business Why Businesses Succeed and Fail Harvard researchers answer 10 perplexing questions.