It's all in the charts.

Small screens equal big bucks, or so say two of the bigger names in the mobile ad business.

Research firm IDC says Microsoft shipped about 900,000 Surface RT and Surface Pro tablets in the first quarter of the year.

All those "channels" and TV stars you heard about a year ago? M.I.A. at YouTube's big sales event last night, replaced by Felicia Day and Macklemore.

App development in the cloud.

"Q1 represented our largest three-month quarter of games revenue to date despite a 37 percent drop in year-over-year payments volume from our largest developer." Largest developer ... Gee, I ...

What was once an oddity will soon be the way IT gets done everywhere.

Hopefully Zuck wants to talk about the explosive growth in mobile ad revenue.

Facebook reported middling first quarter earnings Wednesday and along with them an executive departure. David Spillane, the company's chief accounting officer, will leave the company on May 10. The company ...

The numbers are in -- by a hair.

In the meantime, expect MetroPCS to aggressively expand to new cities this year.

That thing we sorta said last month? Just kidding!

Fusion-io today named Pankaj Mehra as its new chief technology officer. Mehra has been an adviser to the company's prior CTO, Neil Carson, in recent months. He is a former distinguished technologist at ...

But sources say it will ship on time.

Square announced Wednesdaythat it has hired Alex Petrov for its new vice president of partnerships position, where he'll focus on business development and customer acquisition for the commerce startup. ...

The social giant wins control of more than 100 deceptively named domains and $2.8 million in damages.

A fast-growing startup that uses big data to make small-business loans.

CopyTele, which these days is focused on trying to monetize its patents, says Skype and most of the Web-conferencing industry is infringing its intellectual property.

LinkedIn on Wednesday announced that it will now allow users to add video and photos to their profile pages -- essentially, a way to let users create a more visual representation of an online resume. The ...

It's the first of the YouTube-hatched video networks to get snapped up by a big media player.

Quad/Graphics and Pixability are the latest old-media/YouTube investor/startup combo. This one is a little different, though.

Facebook Inc. reports first-quarter earnings after the closing bell on Wednesday. So what are the key elements to watch for? Here’s a primer.

John Donahoe, CEO of eBay, has his doubts about the Marketplace Fairness Act.

Justin Kitch is back with Curious, a lifelong learning startup aimed at connecting teachers and students on "subjects as varied as salsa dancing, integral solving, pipe soldering ... and knife sharpening."...

Here's an online version of a high-end garage sale.

The good news: It's the biggest magazine publisher in America. The bad news ...

T-Mobile is expected to announce on Wednesday that it has completed the purchase, but much of the hard work remains.

Beauty is apparently still in the eye of the beholder.

An animated short made with individual atoms.

The schedule for next month's edition of Google I/O just came out.

Walt on why carriers price the HTC One differently.

It should be an easy time for laptop buyers, but the market is still pretty confusing and frustrating. Walt offers his guide to buying a new laptop.

Lots of Big Media companies are investing in YouTube startups. Now a Hollywood heavyweight may buy one.

A new AT&T promotion could get you the new Samsung Galaxy S4, HTC One or BlackBerry Z10 at half price.

Cooking up a great D11.

Sharing is good.

Spanish tennis player David Ferrer declares his love for the new Galaxy, but does so from the iPhone.

"We continue to evaluate our tablet strategy, but we are not making any shifts in that strategy in the short term."

Big vendors are duking it out for ownership of consumer data.

The Windows Phone 8 app is still in beta, but adds some long-requested features, including support for high-resolution photos.

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has significantly increased the amount of paid leave new parents can receive -- up to 16 weeks for mothers and eight for fathers, among other expanded benefits. Mayer’s recent move ...

IBM said today that its board of directors has approved an additional $5 billion in share buybacks and a 12 percent hike in its quarterly dividend. The new dividend will be 95 cents a share. It's the 18th ...

A conversation with HP networking head Bethany Mayer.

A year after launching its self-serve ad platform, Twitter has opened up the service to the general public. The goal: Help the company create its own version of Google's powerful AdWords product, in time ...

Hulu's ownership structure is up in the air. But it still needs to sell advertising and subscriptions; both seem to be going pretty well.

It's the latest in a string of rather odd marketing choices for Samsung's latest flagship smartphone.

Just you wait, BlackBerry is going to sell a ton of its new Qwerty-keyboard-equipped Q10 smartphone.

Every time a bell rings, a VC gets its wings.