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!

Virgin Gaming to provide Xbox Tournaments app with cash prizes (exclusive)

The tournaments for Xbox Live Gold Members will include EA Sports games at the outset with prizes up to $100,000.

Hailo confirms its $30M round from Richard Branson, Union Square Ventures

Hailo, a mobile cab-hailing app, raised $30 million in its second round of funding and plans on opening its services in New York this month. It ill have fierce competition, however, from Uber.

Top 30 tech investors on Twitter, ranked by influence

Ashton Kutcher is the most influential tech investor on Twitter, with Guy Kawasaki and Richard Branson rounding out the top three, according to new research from PeekAnalytics.

The PeekAnalytics report “Top 1,000 Tech Investors on Twitter” lists all kinds of …

Dylan’s Desk: A spaceship is the perfect gift for the billionaire who has everything

Now that Planetary Resources has unveiled its plans to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new deposits of platinum and water, and to strip-mine them and shuttle them back to secure facilities back on our home planet, I think …

Roundup of the tech and game-related April Fool’s gags

Here’s a roundup of the tech or game-related April Fools jokes of the day. Did any of these trick you?

Conan O’Brien buys Mashable and boots out Pete Cashmore.

Sony comes up with the world’s smallest Ultrabook. Its screen size …