This is not a joke: Google intends to purchase the .Lol Web domain, Vint Cerf, an executive evangelist for Google, wrote on the company’s blog. So instead of going to Google.com, you might be able to type Google.lol and get,...

Good data on Internet traffic is hard to come by. Service providers such as AT&T and Verizon guard their information, and third parties have limited visibility. That’s what makes the annual traffic forecasts by Cisco Systems Inc., the world’s biggest...

(This blog was corrected to show that Jurvetson owns an electric vehicle.) Still wondering who killed the electric car? How about some of the country’s most powerful venture capitalists. OK, so they didn’t really kill the electric car, to reference...

Here’s one thing I didn’t expect to hear from the chief executive officer of one of Europe’s largest tech companies: “Everything happening today shows you have to be in Silicon Valley to really know what’s going on.” That was Ben...

Apple design chief Jony Ive rarely gives interviews, but on the occasion of being knighted in his native U.K. today, the man who helped craft the iPhone and iPad talked with the Telegraph newspaper about the creative process and life...

If you live in the 347, 201 or 510 area codes, or basically anywhere along the eastern edge of Florida, there’s a good chance you live near a mobile-phone spammer or a business that enables one. According to new research...

Indiana isn’t usually considered a hub of technological innovation. However, about 2,000 miles from Silicon Valley, it has solved a problem that has flummoxed even high-tech states like California. Indiana has built one of the most advanced “health information exchanges,”...

Facebook’s stock didn’t have the first-day pop that many had predicted. Nor was the initial public offering a breakout hit in Twitter chatter, despite dominating much of the media coverage. An hour before the stock market closed, there were 104,616...