In 2004 when Facebook was just starting out, Mark Zuckerberg turned to his father Edward for initial working capital Edward, a dentist in Dobbs Ferry New York, loaned his son the money. In return, he... Read more

When a startup gets acquired for its talent rather than its product, it can be viewed as a failure. Gowalla, for example, shut down its doors in December and the founders jumped ship to Facebook. Facebook... Read more

One Kings Lane (OKL), a fast-growing decor flash sales site that generated over $100 million in revenue in 2011, needs somewhere to get all that growth done. In its New York office, where 80 of the company's... Read more

I went to the DLD conference in Munich a couple of weeks ago. One of the cool things about the DLD conference is that they throw in speakers and panels on topics other than the latest buzzy consumer... Read more

A decade ago people were truly amazed to find out that they could download entire movies using BitTorrent. At the time substantial online video simply didn’t exist, and BitTorrent was an eye opener... Read more

Google has poached Simon Prakash, Apple's senior director of product integrity, to run a top secret project, VentureBeat reports. Prakash was a long-time Apple employee of more than eight years; before... Read more

By now it's no secret that Facebook is actively working on its own smartphone. But thanks to the company's recent IPO filing, we have a better idea why. One of the major risks to its business, Facebook... Read more

Hear from Kevin Systrom, Michael Arrington, and other Silicon Valley 100 honorees at IGNITION West! Last week we revealed our annual Silicon Valley 100 list of people doing the coolest things in tech. A... Read more

The new Silicon Valley 100 List is now live, documenting people who did the coolest things in 2011. And Business Insider has a way to hang out with the innovative folks on it. Want to get in-person time... Read more

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