Red hot payments startup Square is invading Asia after it announced that its service has launched in Japan , which becomes its third market worldwide in addition to the US and Canada.
Urturn , the social expressions platform that soft-launched as stealthily as possible last year by intentionally hiding under a really boring name , is getting ready to turn the volume up to 11 to...
The Comic shop killer Michael George has lost a second appeal of his 2011 conviction for killing his wife Barbara George in 1990. Its been a long legal road for George since he was charged with his...
Social networking and messaging firm Imo.im has an interesting new take on social networking, and its raised money to get more people on board! The funding was led by co-founder Georges Harik, who...
Cody Brown, co-founder of interactive web design tool Scroll Kit, is in the midst of some legal trouble with The New York Times .
Grishin Robotics , an investment firm that specializes in you guessed it robotics, has pumped $500,000 into Swivl, the company behind the cool robotic video device that basically acts like a...
Xbox One will receive top Ubisoft titles, including Watch Dogs and Assassins Creed 4: Black Flag. The publisher will launch at least six next-gen titles Microsofts format in the next 12 months.
Editor's Note: Here at NEI, we're keeping a close eye on Pandora's Promise , a documentary film about how many prominent environmentalists have changed their minds about nuclear energy because of...
SparkLabs , the startup accelerator that wants to inject South Koreas startup ecosystem with Silicon Valley expertise, announced its second intake today. Its latest class is an international lineup...
In the week that Tumblr has been acquired by Yahoo , its interesting to see that Urturn , a service with a similar focus on user-generated content being shared by a youthful audience, has announced...
Between WhatsApp , Viber , Google+ Hangouts and a raft of others , the mobile messaging app space is crowded, but recent entrant MessageMe has still managed to make notable headway. After a mere 75...
WibiData the big data startup from Cloudera Co-founder Christophe Bisciglia and Aaron Kimball doesnt have too big of plans. It only wants to become one of the first, if not the first, company...
Hollywood and Google are putting aside their differences over piracy and payments and focusing on what really matters: A feel-good buddy movie set at a beautiful corporate campus full of free food...
Mystery funding of the day? Thatd be YesGraph , a stealthy startup in the recruiting space founded by Ivan Kirigin, a former product manager at Facebook and Dropbox.
Whoever thinks that brains and beauty don't mix clearly hasn't heard about these 30 executives in the tech industry.
Much of the media world makes its money by pairing merchandise with television programs and movies. Now Web-streaming service Crunchyroll has updated its platform to improve the way it sells toys...
When he's not championing for change in rap music and selling OWS-branded t-shirts , Russell Simmons is helping to bring fresh food to the city's food deserts . The entrepreneur and Def Jam co-...
Refusing further business, Barefoot Books says retail giant has undermined its commitment to 'grassroots values'
One of our city's top sneakerhead sanctuaries is stepping into new territory. Co-founder Isack Fadlon reveals to LA Business Journal that Sportie LA launched a range of T-shirts and tank tops under...
No one can say that Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has not done a lot with his life. He has been a philanthropist, inventor, investor, cancer survivor and author.