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The microblogging site has been steadfast in producing new tools as it works to improve user growth. Sunday night, it tapped Taylor Swift to help.

Google, the world's dominant Internet search engine, has seen the sheen fade from its "do no evil" motto on accusations of abuse of dominance.

Despite being in the prototype stage, the headset is seriously impressive, with lots of capabilities across gaming, education, art and beyond.

German oceanographic experts have said that ocean current modeling leads them to believe that the search area in the southern Indian Ocean could be thousands of miles off-target.

“This will take time, but we’re working on it, and we’re committed,” Facebook announced in an blog post Thursday.

Three new partners -- Tastemade, IGN and Mashable -- joined the site's Discover media network in an app update Thursday.

“Tumblr is the new front page of the Internet," according to Yahoo Senior Product Manager John Gronberg.

With an engineering firm on board, a five-mile prototype could break ground in 2016, easing toward a future where California's power cities -- L.A. and San Fran -- could be 30 minutes from each other.

Friendsy, a mobile app that connects college students, just received a huge chunk of cash. But could it ever compete with Facebook and Tinder?

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA) chief executive Daniel Zhang penned a memo to employees following the company's NYSE crash.

The Chinese e-commerce giant struggled at market's open, tumbling below the initial price of its September 2014 listing.

The microblogging site is "excellent for reaching investors and for recruiting," says Mark Essien, CEO of Hotels.ng.

As number of smartphones soars around the world, dominant mobile operating systems are facing challenges from startups.

Fitness wearables, such as Xiaomi's Mi Band, are among the fastest-growing subset of mobile devices that are connected to the Internet.

San Gabriel, California, with a largely Asian population, communicates on China's Weibo network as well as on Facebook and Twitter.

On the Facebook-owned photo-sharing app, Instagram, advertisers like Coca-Cola are ditching celebs in favor of young influencers.

Xiaomi is eyeing one more potentially huge emerging market as China cools.

Ridesharing is a hotly contested business in Asia where SoftBank-backed local competitors are taking on California's Uber.

OnePlus is rolling out a patch to fix known flaws in the Stagefright exploit, as part of the latest version of its OxygenOS Android skin.

A new mobile feature in Bing scans new stories to provide more context for headlines.

The social network for professionals released a new app Wednesday as part of the company's mobile push.

Aspiring online video creators can now find filmmaking support in a new YouTube-sponsored space in India.

Currently in development, it will have VR and streaming capabilities perfect for Twitch.

Xiaomi now assembles its Redmi 2 phones in India, its second-largest market where it released the MIUI 7 global edition Wednesday.

Alibaba's investment in Snapdeal gives the Chinese e-commerce company more than a toehold in the subcontinent.

The controversial treatment could soon be prescribed to millions of American women.

Amazon’s grueling culture, laid bare this week in a New York Times exposé, has reignited questions about the price Silicon Valley workers pay for high salaries and plentiful perks.

The Food and Drug Administration is poised to approve the first treatment for hypoactive sexual desire disorder.

"I'm not saying it can do everything you can do, but... if we keep pushing, we'll get there," said Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert.