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Inside Stripe, The PayPal Competitor Backed By PayPal Founders Peter Thiel, Elon Musk

Patrick and John Collison, brothers in their early 20s from Limerick, Ireland, have a decidedly bold mission: to become the next PayPal.READ»

MANAGEMENT   |  Comment

Bill Nguyen: The Boy In The Bubble

Bill Nguyen launches startups with haste, never researches the competition, and makes the same mistakes "again and again." So why do people keep giving him so much money?READ»

How Color's Bill Nguyen Was Influenced by Steve Jobs, and Plans to One-Up Groupon

Bill Nguyen, serial entrepreneur and founder of real-time photo-sharing app Color, says he plans to outmaneuver Groupon much in the same way Google bested Yahoo. READ»

COLOR   |  Comment

Lala Founder Unveils $41 Million Real-Time Photo-Sharing App Called Color

Bill Nguyen is shamelessly confident about his latest product Color, a real-time photo-sharing app that launches today on the iPhone and Android. And so are investors, who have already sunk $41 million dollars into the service even before it's seen the light of day. READ»

ITUNES   |  Comment

What Is Apple's iTunes Secret?

Speculation abounds about tomorrow's Apple event, much of it focused on an iTunes subscription music service. But industry sources claim the necessary deals simply haven't happened. Could Apple have become so secretive that even its partners will be surprised?READ»

Apple Sneaks Out Music Streaming

So, with all the fuss about what the heck Apple's going to do with its music streaming service purchase Lala, did we just miss the fact it's just enabled iTunes music streaming by a backdoor?READ»

Rdio Enters U.S. Cloud Music Game, As Apple Re-Aims Lala at iPad, New Apple TV

The streaming music biz in the U.S. has been more exciting, or at least mysterious than it has in Europe, with leading brand Spotify just beaten to market by Rdio. And Apple, with Lala, seems not to be playing the same game at all.READ»

APPLE   |  Comment

As Consumers Steer Clear of Mobile Music Downloads, iTunes Continues to Run the Show

New data released last night by ComScore shows that we might be waiting a while for the much speculated about mobile version of iTunes (or else, it'll pop up in Vietnam). Consumers, it seems, are continuing to manage their media ...READ»

SPOTIFY   |  Comment

Spotify Slashes Subscription Costs as MOG Prepares to Launch Outside U.S.

Spotify, purveyors of music streaming to discerning Europeans, has just slashed its subscription prices by 50%. It's introducing a couple of new tariffs: Spotify Unlimited, at half the cost of Spotify Premium, giving users ad-free ...READ»

APPLE   |  Comment

Here's a Swan Song for Lala as Apple Axes the Music Streaming Service

Lala, the music streaming company bought by Apple at the end of 2009, will be dead in a month. It posted a message on its Web site last night to that effect, that said, "Lala is shutting down on May 31. Unfortunately, we are accepting ...READ»

CABLE TV   |  Comment

Today's Vision of Tomorrow: Cable TV's Apple-ocalypse, BBC's Set-Top Box

TV is changing. We're still finishing the transition to slim HDTV sets, and now the way entertainment is being delivered to us is transforming. Cable TV may change swiftly, and even the venerable BBC has got the Internet TV ...READ»

APPLE   |  Comment

Today's Vision of Tomorrow: All Your Music in the Cloud

The Interwebs are ablaze about Apple's plans to acquire Lala. Among the rampant speculation, there's one amazingly important nugget of information: iTunes might be cloud-bound. It's the future of digital music.READ»

MICROSOFT   |  Comment

MSN May Get MySpace Music Service to Rival Google's

Microsoft is talking to MySpace about a music partnership, according to The Wall Street Journal. The deal may mean a leap-frog in popularity for MSN's music portal. MySpace's music site is second only to AOL's with 27 million ...READ»

APPLE   |  Comment

My Secret Love for Rhapsody

I exist mostly in an Apple ecosystem: I work on a Mac, call on an iPhone, and work out with a Shuffle. And yet, here I am, spending more and more time on Rhapsody. Rhapsody, Real's subscription-based music service, is my tech life's ...READ»