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iDreamSky, a Chinese game publisher that debuted on the Nasdaq Stock Market in a $115 million IPO Thursday, has a list of shareholders that includes some of Asia's hottest tech companies.

Google is testing user-tracking technology that connects people’s behavior in mobile apps with their behavior on the mobile web.

Intel isn't suspending a $6 billion investment in Israel due to the conflict in Gaza, though someone went to considerable trouble to assert that it is in a bogus news release and Web page.

Yahoo said Thursday it will join an effort by rival Google to create an encrypted email system by next year that could make it mathematically impossible to hand over users' messages to a court.

Street View has emerged as a powerful tool for tracking change in civic communities.

Most people know their email spam isn't really coming from a prince in Nigeria. But where is it coming from?

Twitter is changing the way it charges for advertising on its site. Marketers will soon have the option to only pay for ads when users interacts with them in ways marketers specify, with what Twitter describes as "objective-based campaigns."

Facebook, looking to better secure the vast amounts of customer data stored on its servers, agreed to acquire the cybersecurity company PrivateCore.

Belgium’s foreign ministry finally has full Internet access across all platforms, after it was the victim of repeat cyber-attack in May, a spokesman for the foreign ministry said Thursday.

The sports network’s Fantasy Football Web and mobile apps had previously relied on a patchwork of methods to take care of league dues.

Six-year-olds show more knowledge of technology than a 45-year-old, and after our teenage years digital confidence begins a long decline, says research from U.K. communications regulator Ofcom.

The young Mark Zuckerberg harshly criticized employees who failed to meet his expectations, says former Facebook employee Noah Kagan in his new book, “How I Lost $170 Million: My time as #30 at Facebook.”

In its latest effort to boost advertising by small businesses, Google said its YouTube unit had acquired Directr, a mobile-video app used by small businesses to create marketing videos, for an undisclosed amount.

A Hong Kong court Tuesday ruled that Albert Yeung Sau-shing, chairman of the Emperor Group conglomerate, can sue Google for defamation because its "autocomplete" function suggests searches linking him to organized crime.

The UK government will look into how virtual and digital currencies could or should be regulated, the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer said at the launch of a fintech industry body in London today.

Facebook ads are getting more expensive and reaching fewer people, because less space is available and more buyers want it. But one small business is set to spend $3 million advertising there this year.

Hiding in Foursquare’s revamped mobile app is a feature some users might find creepy: It tracks your every movement, even when the app is closed.

Max Schireson, the chief executive of MongoDB, is stepping down from a role he called "the best job I ever had." He explained why in a post on his personal blog.

Will robots ease our toil or become a tool for automation and oppression? People who care about technology seem sharply divided, and passionate, about the topic.