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This week, the share prices of Facebook, Google, and Tesla all hit record highs. On Wall Street today, it’s the biggest risks that are being rewarded.

For the past several months, Martin Casado has been working on a new platform that aims to fundamentally change the way the world handles security.

Just weeks after CEO Reed Hastings trashed HBO during a quarterly earnings call, the company is taking an easy potshot at online video rival Amazon with a fake ad for DVD drone delivery.

Ben Wiseman Before the scrum over who will control mobile messaging turned hot last week, with Facebook’s $19 billion purchase of WhatsApp, things got very, very cold. In December, an ice storm was blowing into the Canadian city of Waterloo, …

More and more Silicon Valley startups are expanding into Asia with help from any number of Asia-focused venture capitalists. Among the most interesting transplants is San Francisco based Hampton Creek, whose fake eggs hold special appeal in the Chinese market.

Amazon started as an online bookseller and transformed the entire publishing industry. Now it’s assembling the pieces it needs to do the same to an even bigger medium: television.

Looked at soberly, Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp is a huge mistake. Here’s why — and why you should let the deal intoxicate you, at least a little.

Samsung’s decision to abandon Android on its smartwatches is the first salvo in the coming contest to define the future of wearable tech.

Warner will mine Shazam’s database of song lookups to figure out what songs and artists are about to break out. It’s a smart partnership that will make Warner smarter about marketing and give it access to up and coming artists.

Facebook is buying WhatsApp, agreeing to pay $19 billion in cash and stock for the popular smartphone messaging service.

Netflix is not just a potential content provider to cable. It’s a competitor grooming viewers in a way that will ultimately undermine cable’s business model.

The maker of Candy Crush Saga is going public. But newly released financials reveal the company will need to move quickly to diversify revenue.

Steve Perlman is ready to give you a personal cell phone signal that follows you from place to place, a signal that’s about 1,000 times faster than what you have today because you needn’t share it with anyone else. Perlman …

A combination of deadpan humor and old-timey drawings has transformed Someecards into the Hallmark of the web, with 7 million unique visitors a month. How else could you deliver a romantic note like “Just sending a preemptive apology, since Valentine’s …

Pam Grossman saw a revolution brewing in how women are depicted in popular culture. So she thrust her company, digital pictures warehouse Getty Images, right into the middle of the fray with its feminist “Lean In” collection. Grossman talked to …

Jawbone’s new $250 million investment puts the wireless speaker and fitness band maker in the top echelon of tech startups on the verge of becoming something much bigger. It also puts the company squarely in Apple’s rear view — and …

There are millions of lonely men out there, and a lot of them will spend Valentine’s Day with a webcam model. February 14 is one of the busiest days of the year for webcamming.

The merger would go beyond the cable TV, commercial broadband, and telephone industries to impact satellite TV, television programmers like ESPN and Fox, online video providers like NetFlix and YouTube, and the massive networks at the very heart of the …

Eager to learn more about teen-friendly apps like Snapchat, Facebook is paying users to come to headquarters and answer a bunch of questions. It’s Facebook’s latest move to compete with Snapchat and stay popular with the cool kids on Madison …

Jeff Bezos says Amazon hopes to send delivery drones into the skies in four or five years. One city looks like it will get there a lot sooner.