TechCrunch founder, investor Michael Arrington denies CEO’s rape allegations

The public battle between two prominent tech insiders has divided the Silicon Valley community.

Facebook loves local: 2B small biz connections, 645M weekly views, 13M weekly comments

Facebook loves local business, apparently. And local business loves Facebook.

Facebook brings Chat Heads to Messenger for Android (and it’s not awful)

Chat Heads may be a big feature in Facebook Home, but that doesn't mean Facebook can't bring it to its other apps.

Twitter’s #Music site is up now, could launch as soon as today

Twitter has published a music.twitter.com webpage with a #music hashtag and a so-far-non-functional sign-in button, suggesting that Twitter's new music application will launch as soon as this weekend.

Global village: Twitter introduces Trends in 160 new locations

In Valparaiso, Chile, they're excited that English Premier League soccer club Tottenham lost a semifinal, mostly because home-grown striker Marcelo Diaz scored for the rival club. And in Mombasa, Kenya, the buzz is all about Uhuru.

LinkedIn buys Pulse for $90M as its publishing ambitions take shape

Stepping even further into the media fray, LinkedIn announced today that it has acquired the popular news reader app Pulse.

After a $41M loan, Foursquare still needs to prove it’s an actual business

While it's been four years since Foursquare introduced itself to world, the company is still hashing out its business strategy. And that should horrify investors.

How ‘well’ do you use social media? Two brothers built a social analytics platform to tell you

Prollie is a social search platform that tracks how "well" people use social media platforms and makes connections with others who share the same interests and passions.

Foursquare raises $41M as it doubles-down on search and ad ops

We've been saying this for a while now: Foursquare isn't about badges and mayorships anymore. You need only look at the company's latest round of funding for confirmation.

Adam Orth, Microsoft game exec who insulted fans on Twitter, has left the company (updated)

We hear that Orth voluntarily resigned.

Kim Dotcom: ‘Eat this FBI, leading the Time100 poll with a 93% approval rating’

Kim Dotcom is leading the Time100 poll, which attempts to track the top leaders, artists, and innovators in the world. Being Kim Dotcom, he's not one to be silent about it.

Ribbon’s in-stream Twitter payments shut down by Twitter 90 minutes after launching

Payments in-stream on Twitter: how cool is that? Too cool, apparently for Twitter.

Raptr starts releasing its most-played games of the month: Black Ops II is tops for March

With 17M users, Raptr can figure out which games are being played the most.

Facebook now lets ads target you based on what you do outside Facebook

Facebook's "partner categories" add data from outside its network, so advertisers can target you based on what you buy and do outside Facebook, even including offline purchases.

Foursquare’s latest iOS update proves its future is in local search, not badges

You can sum up Foursquare's latest iOS app update in three words: location, location, location.

GM drives back into Facebook’s arms with new mobile-only ad campaign

Almost a year after their public break up, Facebook and General Motors are getting back together.

YC-backed Hipset’s YouTube network makes celebrities more rich and famous

Today, Y Combinator company Hipset introduced a multichannel YouTube network that helps musicians grow and monetize their online audience.

Shift attacks Salesforce, Adobe with ‘open marketing cloud,’ an app store for digital marketing tools

Salesforce says it has the world's only unified social marketing suite. Adobe says its marketing cloud is a single service that includes everything digital marketers need to get ahead.

Shift begs to differ.