Google to promise it’ll change and be good, may end FTC antitrust investigations

After all, Santa knows who's naughty and who's nice.

Model Christy Turlington joins Silicon Valley heavyweights to launch new art business (photo gallery)

Minted founder and chief executive Mariam Naficy knows how to fill a room.

Some of Silicon Valley’s most powerful executives showed up, together with supermodel Christy Turlington, for the launch of Minted‘s new art prints business, in Naficy’s San Francisco …

Yelp cooperating with FTC on antitrust lawsuit against Google

Following Google’s recent purchase of Zagat, social review and discovery site Yelp will cooperate with the Federal Trade Commission’s investigation’s antitrust lawsuit against the search giant, the company announced today.

Since Google now directly competes against Yelp in terms of …

Yelp CEO: IPO window is still open, Yelp on track

Despite recent market turmoil and questions about public market stability, the window for new initial public offerings has not closed — and local discovery site Yelp is still on track for its IPO — Yelp chief executive officer Jeremy Stoppelman …

Groupon Clones: Still viable or dead on arrival?

With Groupon clones lining the digital streets like “GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS” signs in the seedy parts of Reno, you’d think the model was an easy one to replicate.

Facebook did it; Yelp did it; now Google is doing it. But …

Yelp has a new CFO. An IPO can’t be far off

Popular local search and reviews site Yelp is getting closer to a possible public stock offering.

Yelp’s CEO has told VentureBeat that the company wouldn’t venture down the road to an initial public offering (IPO) until it hired a chief …

Photos show the cultural difference between Black Hat and Defcon hacker events

Thousands of security professionals, hackers, federal agents and media descended on Las Vegas this week to attend the Black Hat and Defcon conferences. The two conferences exhibit the extremes of hacker and security culture, with federal agents and major corporations …

Yelp plans more local deals, IPO to come

For Yelp, the present — and future — are all about mobile.

When the local-business recommendation site started in 2004, mobile devices were on the founders’ minds, but the technology wasn’t there yet to provide a satisfying user experience. Then …