Katie Benner

Snapchat plays hard to get with celebrities and influencers

Social networks have traditionally formed tight bonds with actors, musicians, politicians and people who are known for nothing besides their online presence

Google and Facebook take aim at fake news sites

Facebook has been at the epicentre of the debate, accused by some commentators of swinging voters in favour of Donald Trump

Google, Facebook hit fake news sites where it hurts with advertisement ban

Taken together, the decisions were a clear signal that the tech behemoths could no longer ignore the growing outcry

Airbnb contests new law regulating New York rentals

New law imposes steep fines on Airbnb hosts who break local housing regulations

A Silicon Valley dream collapses in allegations of fraud

Warned of a crash, start-ups in Silicon Valley narrow their focus

Silicon Valley start-ups were set to face a great reckoning in 2016. Yet the crash hasn't happened

Twitter suspends 235,000 more accounts over extremism

Twitter's latest action brings the total number of suspended accounts to 360,000

Airbnb, others set terms for employees to cash out

Airbnb offered its employees an opportunity to sell a percentage of their stock as part of a deal that let investors buy those shares

Snapchat helps ad buyers get over fear of ghost

Snapchat has persuaded brands like Tiffany & Company, Kraft Foods and Burger King that its ads let them interact playfully with this young audience

Equidate to make private firms' data public

Sohail Prasad, co-founder of Equidate, said the data will help stakeholders understand the value of their stock

Katie Benner: When a 'Unicorn' start-up stumbles, its staff suffers

Investors and executives generally get protections in a start-up that employees do not

Publishers straddle the Apple-Google, app-web divide

Publishers tend to use apps to cater to the most loyal users and use the web to be found by new readers

Apple deactivates news app in China

Apple seems to be avoiding the problem by completely disabling the service for users in China

Apple presses ahead with efforts to create car, though issues remain

Apple is aiming to introduce some sort of car product around 2020, several people with knowledge of the project said

Apple's App Store suffers first major attack

So far about 40 apps with malicious code, or malware, have made it into the App Store

With a revamped Apple TV, company hopes to camp in your home

The revamped device will share the event spotlight with Apple's biggest moneymaker, the iPhone

Hot tech start-ups may face long & bumpy fall

Katie Benner: Start-ups' new money machine

All the money from public market investors could pose a risk to the start-ups, because there is a big difference in the way that investments from venture capital firms and public funds are structured

Katie Benner: Humans win in Google's 'mobilegeddon'

Mobilegeddon offers a window into why the EU's seemingly strong case against Google might be more tenuous

Katie Benner: Can private equity rescue start-ups?

Private equity won't be a solution for every company. But it is a good idea to find new mechanisms that might unbundle layers of conflicting financial interests that can stunt a start-up's prospects