Meerkat has dropped in app store rankings, but its founder says its community is still going strong.

U.S. employers added 126,000 jobs in March 2015, ending 12 straight months of job gains above 200,000, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The month’s disappointing numbers are the smallest gain since December 2013. “While employment increased and continues to trend up in certain…

Transaction is expected to close in the latter half of the year.

A Chinese Internet agency criticizes Google Inc. for rejecting its website safety verification process, in the latest sign of mistrust between China and foreign technology companies.

The back and forth over China’s first anti-terror law rises as foreign tech firms worry about the impact on their operations in the country, reports Caixin Online.

TripAdvisor Inc. said Thursday Chief Financial Officer Julie Bradley will resign to spend more time with her family and pursue personal interests.

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U.S. stocks finish the Easter-shortened week with modest gains after benchmarks advance slightly on Thursday

Tidal isn’t much different from what rivals offer.

Major companies out of Silicon Valley are facing regulatory pushback in Europe as they expand their operations there.

The industry throws off a lot of cash, which feeds dividend increases and share-price outperformance, writes Phil van Doorn.

On Thursday, Airbnb announced that it has expanded its home-sharing platform to Cuba

CarMax, Google, and Perry Ellis are notable movers on Thursday.

Home-rental service Airbnb has begun offering accommodations in Cuba, becoming the latest U.S. business to tap opportunities made possible by thawing relations.

Mainframes are still popular. There, we said it. Do you feel better? Some still argue that mainframes are the ‘original cloud’ and that the virtualization technologies that we champion today were all born on the mainframe – actually, there’s a lot of truth in that. IBM is still churning out its…

Investors are getting a little bit excited about an oil recovery again. Ready to go up against the Sage of Omaha?

Europe’s competition regulator is preparing to move against Google in the next few weeks, setting the stage for charges against the U.S. Internet-search giant in a five-year-old probe that has stalled three times and sparked a political firestorm.

Tesla joins Amazon.com Inc in launching an April Fools’ joke on its website, making fun of Apple Inc.

Memories Pizza in Walkerton, Ind., has earned a slew of memorable comments on Yelp after its proprietors said they wouldn’t cater same-sex weddings.

Brace yourselves; Dish Network Corp’s web-based streaming service on Wednesday announced it’s come to terms with HBO in a deal to offer the “Game of Thrones” provider’s content.

As part of a clever and not extremely uncalled for April Fools’ Day antic, Netflix Inc. in telling its users to binge responsibly.

President Obama on Wednesday moved to create a new program of sanctions against other nations and people outside the U.S. who participate in significant cyberattacks against U.S. citizens, companies or government entities.

A wild ride in Asia overnight has come all the way back, but this quarter could be shaping up to be a doozy. Here’s how to gird your loins.

Users of Tor complain Hidden Services are inaccessible or slow as the maintainers of the privacy-focused network warn such sites are indeed under attack. Drug pushers on Tor's dark markets say there are more serious problems afoot, but the Tor Project doesn't agree and says help is on the way in the…

Every day we humans navigate variation in our day. Detours on the commute, our favorite lunch item not on the menu, the list goes on and we move forward undeterred. For robots though, even the tiniest variations cause havoc. Or once did. Today, smart, collaborative robots deal with real-world…

The year 2015 is shaping up as a make-or-break one for the global ambitions of Line, which operates a smartphone messaging application that is wildly popular in Japan but faces tough competition from bigger rivals elsewhere, its new chief executive says.

Manufacturers across a broad spectrum of industries including automotive, aerospace, dental, discrete, high tech, and medical products are all actively piloting and using 3D printing technologies today. Prototyping continues to dominate the reasons why enterprises pursue 3D printing, with the…

Long stays in space have a major hitch. Medical studies on the effects of microgravity on astronauts after many months in low-Earth orbit (LEO) can’t get around one hard truth --- humans aren’t cut out for life without gravity. Thus, artificial gravity habitats are now being discussed as a crucial…