Yahoo is considering buying Tumblr, according to two separate reports on AllThingsD and Adweek. It's eyeing the one social network it can afford that would make Yahoo feel young again.

AllThingsD reports that Yahoo would consider an investment or corporate alliance in addition to outright buying...

Facebook autoplay ads are slated to pop up in our newsfeeds starting this summer -- letting brands give us their pitch as we scroll through wedding announcements and bar mitzvah photos. We've been eager to find out what kind of options Facebook will offer corporate sponsors, and on...

Selfies are perhaps the worst thing about social networks. They take media like Facebook or Instagram, which work their best when people share things about the world around them, and turn them inward. While each individual user might find each one of their own images fascinating, it's rare that others...

After five years of decline for BlackBerry at the hands of the iPhone, and a more recent lukewarm launch of its own touchscreen flagship phone, would you bet on any prediction made by the company's CEO about the next five years of consumer technology? Probably not.

Which brings us...

Despite the Galaxy S4's status as a highly anticipated phone that, frankly, is probably good enough to sell without any marketing gimmicks, Samsung can't seem to get a launch for the device right.

In March, the company staged a bizarrely sexist series of skits in New York...

Amazon's planning a streaming TV set-top box for release next fall, reports Bloomberg Businessweek. The move would put the giant online retailer into a crowded space, alongside Apple TVs, Rokus, Xboxes and PlayStations, which already populate the homes of so many cord-cutters and offer feeds to Amazon's streaming-video...

After a year of trying online journalism as a side project, Tumblr has learned what so many other digital publications could have just told them: online reporting is hard.

In a very late-night news dump Tuesday on his company's official Tumblr blog, CEO David Karp announced the...

Every year, not satisfied being the hyper-successful, 28-year-old CEO of the company of the decade, Mark Zuckerberg tries to improve himself by setting an annual challenge. In 2009, he wore a tie daily. In 2010, he studied Chinese. In 2011, he only ate meat that he himself killed....

Buried at the bottom of a press release announcing BlackBerry's solid fourth quarter earnings was the real headlining news: Mike Lazaridis, the founder and former CEO of BlackBerry (nee Research In Motion), is leaving the company for good. He had been on...

Marissa Mayer, after declaring that she wants Yahoo to be "a predominantly mobile company," is apparently putting her company's money where her mouth is. Yahoo just bought the news summarization app Summly for an undisclosed amount, the company announced on Monday.

Yahoo didn't disclose how much...

Most companies would kill for a product like Google Reader. It was popular with the right people -- bloggers and media-types who used the popular RSS feed to organize stories from around the Internet and who usually end up being the ones to evangelize the online masses to new networks.

Marissa Mayer has drawn more haters than defenders for her decision to forbid Yahoo employees from permanently working from home. But on Thursday, she gained the support of one of the corporate tech world's most prominent players: Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg.

While not specifically...

Debunking once and for all the theory that Instagram has been hemorrhaging members since it controversially updated its terms of service in January, the photo-sharing app announced that it hit 100 million active users on Tuesday.

The 2-and-a-half-year-old company, bought by Facebook for a then eye-popping...

After the Twitter accounts for both Burger King and Jeep were hacked over a two-day period, you're likely to take @MTV and @BET at their word when the accounts write that they have been hacked as well. Well, don't get suckered in:...

Apparently, the Twitter hacks will not stop this week. On Monday, Burger King's official account was taken over by hackers, who changed its profile pic to the logo of hamburger rival McDonald's. On Tuesday, car brand Jeep experienced a similar hack attack that had it tweeting about competitors'...

You’re forgiven if you haven’t thought much about Dell in a while. Not many people have. In fact, this past month has marked the first time in recent memory that the beleaguered computer-maker has been a significant part of any news cycle. After weeks of rumors, Dell announced...

Friday was the beginning of the end of television as we know it -- or at least that's what Netflix would like you to believe.

The popular video-streaming service released the political drama "House of Cards" early Friday morning. The star-studded series about the underbelly of D.C....

The New York Post, knowing sensationalism like no other, wrote an article Friday about Instagram that must have sent jitters through the folks in Facebook's California offices.

Citing data from App Data, a firm that tracks the popularity of Facebook, iPhone and Android apps, the...

December means an onslaught of year-end lists from tech companies like Facebook, Twitter and so on, all trying to put a finger on what made customers tick in 2012. But one unofficial tabulation -- the most-visited Wikipedia articles of the past 12 months -- may tell...

On Christmas Eves of yore, kids could only dream of where Santa Claus and his reindeer were flying at any moment, hoping that their house would be next on the big guy's list.

Today, they no longer have to wonder. Children worldwide can track Santa's sleigh as...