It has been 10 years since Cowboy Ventures’ founder Aileen Lee coined an incredibly catchy nickname for what were very rare startups at the time: Unicorns. She was referring to U.S.-based companies ...

As business increasingly moves online many brands are abandoning brick-and-mortar premises altogether. Websites have become the new storefronts for brands, with new online purchasing records being set ...

Do you know how many unicorns there were when Aileen Lee crowned them with this now-ubiquitous nickname in her 2013 TechCrunch column? Only 39. And at the time, nobody could have guessed that more ...

This is your notice: we experimented with relaxing the rules around cutesy names in threads. It -- predictably -- immediately turned into people jumping to ugly namecalling. A few days ago, in the ...

Thirteen-year-old Skandar Smith has always dreamed of being a unicorn rider, one of the elite who compete each year in the Chaos Cup. It’s weeks away from his Hatchery exam—which might offer him the ...