Stealth online payments startup Stripe has raised $2 million in a venture round from some all-star investors.
Backers include PayPal founders Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, as well as Sequoia Capital, Andreesen Horowitz and SV Angel, according to TechCrunch. The …
Nokia has filed a second patent infringement complaint with the United States International Trade Commission against Apple. The suit alleges Apple infringes on Nokia patents in virtually all of its mobile phones, portable music players and computers.
If Nokia prevails …
Of the 18 games that debuted with the Nintendo 3DS on Sunday, the submarine combat game Steel Diver was one of the most intriguing and unique titles for the new handheld gaming system with glasses-free stereoscopic 3D.
The game is …
Trying to beat rivals Apple and Google to market, Amazon.com announced tonight that it is launching a cloud-based music service. The service is an important one because it raises the possibility of creating a viable challenger to Apple’s current download-based …
RealNetworks chief executive Bob Kimball has resigned from the company after a little more than a year.
The resignation isn’t a good omen for RealNetworks, which has been struggling to remain profitable and find a reason for being amid a …
In a bid to draw more people into its online markets, eBay said it is buying GSI Commerce for cash and loans totaling $2.4 billion.
The deal will help eBay grow up into a broader e-commerce company, setting the stage …
Lady Gaga made news in Silicon Valley last week by visiting Google and Twitter’s headquarters. Now she’s donating $1.5 million to Japan earthquake relief via Zynga’s funding campaign in its various social games. Part of that money is also separately …
American Express has ceaselessly driven into our heads, “Don’t leave home without it” as the commercial message for its American Express card. Now it’s launching its Serve digital payments platform, so it can tell us, “Don’t go online without it.”…
Making payments with your mobile phone is one of the great dreams of technophiles. Wave your phone in front of a reader and buy something just like that. To make that a reality, Google is teaming up with MasterCard and …
Warner Bros. is broadening its experiment with digital movie distribution by releasing five more marquee movies for rent on Facebook.
As video stores die off and consumers become more comfortable watching digital movies, Warner Bros. and other studios are moving …
It used to be that cyber criminals hacked into accounts to steal credit card numbers or social security numbers. Now they’re moving upscale, building a huge underground economy around stealing more valuable intellectual property.
The Underground Economies report being released …
Apple has been pretty quiet about the next version of its mobile operating system, dubbed iOS 5. That’s not surprising, since it is probably tied to the next version of its iPhone, the iPhone 5. But TechCrunch claims that this …
Apple apparently ran out of its iPad 2 supplies by Saturday afternoon in most of the 25 countries where it launched the new tablet computer on Friday.
If it’s true, then Apple is well on its way to having another …
Trip Hawkins, the chief executive of mobile gaming firm Digital Chocolate and founder of Electronic Arts, may be on the hook for $20 million in back taxes after a judge rejected his attempt to use personal bankruptcy to cancel the …
Nintendo kicked off sales of its new 3DS portable gaming handheld on Saturday night, midnight Eastern time.
The launch was a managed extravaganza, like other big video game system launches in recent years. The point was to celebrate the launch …
Nintendo has done its best to launch a new era in video games with the launch of its 3DS portable gaming system, which goes on sale for $249 on Sunday. The appeal of this device, which can display games in …
The bulls are back in Silicon Valley in a variety of ways. Let’s hope reports of the recovery are true and that the optimism doesn’t get overheated too fast and turn into a bubble of the dot-com era’s scale.
The …
We all know your waiting for a video game version of Shakespeare in Love, The English Patient, (pictured) and The Cider House Rules. No doubt this is why The Weinstein Company — headed by filmmakers Harvey and Bob Weinstein — …
Apple’s iPad 2 goes on sale today in 25 more countries in a kind of land grab to outpace its Android opponents. The long lines and celebrating are already happening across the globe. One fan in Sydney, Australia, waited outside …
Tim Draper, the gregarious founder and managing director of venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, says there isn’t reason to fear a big bubble in the technology sector just yet.
Draper said so during a question and answer session after …
