Medio launches way for game and app developers to get more users

Media promises that K-Invite will yield high-quality users for mobile apps.

Lasers, robots, and electricity help make STEM education into STEAM

Combining gadgets and entertainment, the creators of this carnival hope to get kids excited about science, technology, engineering, art, and math.

RichRelevance acquires Avail to aid its international expansion

RichRelevance announced today that it has acquired Avail, Europe’s largest provider of online merchandising platforms, for an undisclosed sum.

Here are the top 10 cities for women entrepreneurs

Intuit published an infographic today presenting the top cities for female entrepreneurs, as well as some interesting statistics about the state of women-owned businesses in the U.S.

iTunes users spend $40/year on apps, music, and digital shtuff

Apple has built a massive and fast-growing $16 billion annual revenue stream in digital content alone, Apple analyst Horace Dediu says.

Sir Richard’s crossdressing adventure ain’t no drag

Richard Branson lost a bet in 2010, and finally made good on his promise to don heavy makeup and full drag. His sense of humor is a lesson to all founders and CEOs!

Rocket Internet’s Namshi raises $13M to expand e-commerce in Middle East

Rocket Internet announced Namshi, its Middle Eastern online fashion retailer, has raised $13 million led by Summit Partners to sustain growth.

Twitter acquires data visualization startup Lucky Sort for … revenue engineering?

Twitter has acquired data visualization startup Lucky Sort, possibly to bolster its ad sales and reporting tools.

Would you give up half your company for $250K?

If that sounds bad, how about half of your company for $90K? Crazy? No. This is the reality in many places outside of Silicon Valley (and especially outside the US). And it isn't good.

GM unveils its $130M Detroit data center

This is the first of the two data centers expected to serve as the “computing backbone” for the company’s global operations. General Motors hopes to consolidate 23 data centers and three information technology suppliers around the world into two facilities by the year 2015.

Sleek to-do app Any.Do nabs $3.5M from Genesis Partners, Eric Schmidt, & others

Popular to-do list application Any.Do has raised $3.5 million in new funding to continue helping people get things done no matter the device.

Africa’s entrepreneurs say their ideas aren’t a ‘dime a dozen’ like in Silicon Valley (video)

Check out this 20 minute documentary on Africa's tech scene. Unlike Silicon Valley, "innovation is born from necessity."

France wants to add a ‘culture tax’ to Apple & Google products

France isn't exactly known as being the friendliest country for big businesses, especially when it comes to tech companies. Here's another potential example of why.

Amazon buys Samsung’s Liquavista screen-tech company, potentially for color Kindle

Amazon's Kindle Fire is in glorious living color, but it's original and still strong-selling Kindle and its cousins, the Kindle Paperwhite family, are still irritatingly stuck in 1950's-style black and white. That may soon change.

LucidWorks pulls in $10M to turn open source data into ‘business gold’

Big data startup LucidWorks has raised $10 million to help enterprise companies "turn multi-structured data into business gold."

Coffee with Apple CEO Tim Cook hits $605K, may break Lamborghini charity auction record

Apparently, coffee with Apple CEO Tim Cook is a big deal. Even bigger, perhaps, than a new 2013 Lamborghini.

Husband-wife team launch Zoobean to make searching for kids books smarter

Zoobean launched a curated catalog of children's books today to make it easier for parents to find books that are the most relevant for their children.