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An Internet-connected world does not mean a homogenous world.

Urturn, the London-based social startup focused heavily on the music and entertainment industry, announced Wednesday that it raised $13.4 million in venture capital. The round was led by Balderton Capital, which contributed more than $10 million, with…

Product chief Kouji Kodera is among those who have left the Taiwanese phone maker in recent days.

Teens want a drama-free social network. Twitter looks to be that network.

Online payment processor PayPal said Tuesday that it is expanding a test partnership with Jamba Juice to let PayPal app users order and pay from their phones ahead of pick-up. Of course, plenty of retailers, from Chipotle to Five Guys, allow customers to order…

A huge spike in broadband use for mobile devices -- when they're still in your house. Apple accounts for nearly half of that.

Mignon Clyburn said Tuesday that she wants to work to protect rural carriers and consumers while making sure that efforts to increase available spectrum remain on track.

Vodafone Group said Tuesday it will keep the $3.15 billion dividend payment it will receive from Verizon Wireless and plow it into its flagging operations in Europe, which weighed heavily on the mobile giant's full-year profit.

Hardware makers are turning to parties, stunts and events in an effort to fill the news void created by the lack of big-name announcements slated for this year's CTIA trade show in Las Vegas.

The higher $3.40-per-share offer comes just ahead of a shareholder vote that clearly wasn't going Sprint's way.

Yahoo says it acquired 300 million new users yesterday. But, for now, the number advertisers care about will be much smaller.

MessageMe, the mobile application that offers free text, photo and video messaging between smartphones, announced Tuesday that it had raised a $10 million round led by John Lilly of Greylock Partners -- who will join the board of MessageMe makers LittleInc…

Former rivals are teaming up.

HasOffers, a four-year-old company that helps companies track their affiliate marketing programs, has raised its first outside funding, a $9.4 million round led by Accel Partners, along with angels including RealNetworks founder Rob Glaser. The company also…

Sprint can now share non-public details of its business with Dish, which has made a rival bid for the No. 3 U.S. wireless provider.

The $349 phone is designed to be able to withstand a six-foot drop onto concrete or a 30-minute dip in a pool, all without adding too much heft to a standard Android phone.

If you can make it there ... blah, blah, blah.

Tough luck for Google Voice loyalists, as the new Hangouts messaging product denigrates a key function of Voice. Change is coming, but it could be a while.

As part of its efforts to strengthen its software capabilities Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday it will be hosting a global competition to lure developers to create apps for its Galaxy smartphones.

You're not surprised, right?

"We’re not turning purple," says Tumblr founder David Karp, who then drops an f-bomb.

Sprint's bid for Clearwire faces stiff opposition from key minority shareholders. Either way, Sprint finds itself the subject of competing bids from SoftBank and Dish Network.

Not so much with the leaning in.

Sure, Tumblr could be a GeoCities for Yahoo. What if it's a YouTube? Here's what the video site's financials looked like when Google bought it.

Done (just like we said).