It isn’t often that a company in Asia acquires a U.S. rival, particularly one that has surfed a wave of hype in Silicon Valley. But that’s exactly what happened this week after Path announced the sale ...

Everyone has a friend who likes to tell it how it really is. They wear their iconoclasm like a badge of pride. They’re the contrarian at the party who delights in puncturing polite shibboleths, ...

The writer Meghan Daum has told her life story in her books. She documented her salad days of debt and dating in New York in “My Misspent Youth.” She novelized the story of an idealistic move to ...

South Korean firm Mass Studies has developed a system of five concrete modules for building South Korea's answer to California's Silicon Valley, starting with this flexible headquarters building for ...

Kakao will spin off its portal service Daum, 11 years after merging with the platform, in a bid to allow more autonomous management and reinvigorate the brand. The tech giant said Thursday that its ...

Meghan Daum is used to being controversial. A columnist for the Los Angeles Times for more than a decade, Daum has tackled big culture-war subjects, from the right to die to the commodification of ...

Constant chatter of nebulous vibe shifts and woke/anti-woke battles has made it nearly impossible to find rational voices in the cacophonous take economy. It’s dispiriting to watch a once respected ...

Kakao Corp and Daum announced today that they will merge through an equity swap, creating a company with a 3.4 trillion won (about $2.9 billion) market capitalization. Kakao is the maker of KakaoTalk, ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Earlier this month, retired NBA veteran Kirk Hinrich fidgeted in a room full of college basketball players, most too young to recall his best years at Kansas, before he offered ...

Kate Daum - who has a University of Iowa residence hall named in her honor - was 9 years old when her mother died of typhoid fever at the family home in Lawrence, Kan., in 1901. The Daum family had ...

His acclaimed documentary “A Life Apart” presented a complex portrait of a religious group usually depicted as somber and impenetrable. By Joseph Berger Menachem Daum, a filmmaker who co-produced a ...