Yelp and ReachLocal form exclusive partnership to own home services industry

People will now be able to book and buy home services like plumbers, painters, appliance repairs, cleaning, directly through Yelp.

Facebook changes News Feed to kill updates from your boring friends

"We're in the service of the person having the most engaging experience every single time they come back," said Facebook VP Chris Cox. Here's what that means in practice.

Accelerators doubling annually: too much of a good thing?

"The hypocrisy of accelerators is that we give give you money and you go innovate while we do business as usual," 500 Startups' Paul Singh says.

Basis CEO says wearables won’t have a single killer app

Jef Holove of Basis Science believes that we'll have a wide variety of wearable devices.

Hot Russian travel site OneTwoTrip acquires TechStars alum DealAngel

Russian travel site OneTwoTrip has purchased young hotel analytics startup DealAngel for its team and tech.

Nielsen: Tweets drive higher broadcast TV ratings for 48% of shows

The fact that TV drives tweets is not particularly shocking. The fact that tweets drive TV is much more significant.

Apple will give you $10 to trade in your fake & possibly deadly iPhone charger

Apple wants to make sure your fake iPhone charger doesn't electrocute you to death, so it's starting a trade-in program to encourage you to trade it in.

Amazon launches art marketplace with over 4,500 artists and 40,000 works

Ecommerce giant Amazon has launched a new Amazon Art marketplace for fine art, drawings, prints, and photographs with more than 40,000 works.

FreedomPop brings free mobile service to Sprint’s LTE network, amid overwhelming demand

FreedomPop's free mobile service is about to get more tempting.

Learn-to-code company Pluralsight acquires 2 competitors for $23M

Pluralsight, which offers learn-to-code video coursework, will grow its library to more than 1,000 courses. The integration of the two sites into the Pluralsight fold will occur over the next few months.

Zynga finally says it will shut down Draw Something developer OMGPOP that it bought for $180M

The move represents another retreat under new CEO Don Mattrick.

Harvard Innovation Lab’s youngest team launches recommendation engine Side

Side is mobile application that prompts you with two-choice questions about you and your friends and recommends products and services based on your responses.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos buys Washington Post for $250M

Long-running political newspaper the Washington Post has been sold to Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos, the post announced today.

DEA follows NSA to the dark side with covert spying on Americans (report)

The NSA has been secretly giving information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants, and phone records to the DEA to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans. Law enforcement agents are instructed to cover up the source of their information.

Google’s Sergey Brin buys a $325,000 synthetic hamburger

The world's first hamburger made entirely from synthetic meat was unveiled today by a team of Dutch researchers, who subsequently held a media event to see how it tasted.

Yet another research firm says Apple is getting crushed by Android tablets

It's one thing for a single research firm to call out Apple's quickly falling tablet market share, but now another outfit is painting a similarly bleak picture for the iPad.

Rocket Internet launches first hotel startup with Africa-based Jovago

Super incubator Rocket Internet entered the hotel business with the launch of Jovago, a hotel booking site based in Nigeria.