Ian Kar

Mobile gaming now brings in more revenue than videogames played on PCs or on consoles.

Google wants to keep employees who want to start their own company, or join a high flying startup. So the company may develop an “in-house incubator” allowing Google employees to develop their startups within the company.

Fintech startups used to be focused on making traditional banks obsolete. Now, it seems like they just want to sell them services.

Amazon is going into battle with Netflix. The e-commerce giant launched 2 monthly subscription plans today (April 18)—a $10.99 Amazon Prime subscription, and a video streaming one for $8.99.

If you’re going to take to social media to deny that climate change exists (it does, and it’s our fault), you better not inaccurately cite NASA. The US space and science agency might respond with a public smackdown.

Setting and keeping track of goals is a difficult and tedious process, and Google wants to make it easier.

Swipebuster  is a service that charges you $5 to find out if your significant other is on Tinder.

Home-rental company Airbnb has “acqui-hired” the majority of the team behind ChangeCoin, a startup that runs a bitcoin-based micropayments service, according to four people with knowledge of the deal.

Credit scores are integral to the way Americans borrow money, but the process by which they’re calculated is less than perfect. John Oliver, host of HBO’s Last Week Tonight, dived into the topic on last night’s (April 10) show.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is “extremely concerned” the amount of sensitive—and valuable—customer financial data other companies can obtain with your permission.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citi, Credit Suisse, J.P. Morgan, and the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) successfully traded credit default swaps on the blockchain, according to an announcement today.

The stuttering rollout of Kanye West’s new album can now be declared a success.

Silicon Valley is on a mission to disrupt finance. Even Jamie Dimon is worried about it. US venture capital funding for fintech startups reached $7.4 billion in 2015, up from $4.3 billion in 2014. But while the money’s flowing, the real action is in China.

Amid a companywide effort to cull money-losing operations, Google is shutting down its Google Wallet debit card, the company confirmed in a blog post today. 

Porsche is using holograms to get people to buy its $80,000 sports car.

The world’s largest fintech startup is AliPay, the digital bank company that split from e-commerce giant Alibaba in 2011.

The world of virtual reality is about to collide with the world of stock trading.

The internet is infiltrating all of our devices, from thermostats to stoves. Yet, the technology seems to be more popular in other countries than in the US.

Musicians often protest the toll that streaming music services, illegal downloads and leaked tracks have taken on their business models. But when you’re as big as Kanye West, Beyonce or Taylor Swift, technology is no threat. Instead, it offers pop-music titans an opportunity to exert greater artistic control over their album rollouts and creative processes.

Most are familiar with the concept of burner cell phones—prepaid phones used, then thrown away. A new privacy startup wants to bring the same concept to your online purchases.

Soccer legend Johan Cruyff passed away from cancer at the age of 68, his family said on Cruyff’s website. .

The reinstatement of diplomatic ties between the US and Cuba is expected give a big boost to the Cuban economy. US companies in the hospitality industry like Airbnb and Starwood clearly stand to benefit, but so do financial companies that can help businesses expand to the US and move money in and out of Cuba.

Apple Pay will soon be available for use within the Safari mobile web browser, according to multiple sources close to Apple, a move that should simplify and speed up the online checkout process.

For years, startups trying to disrupt financial services have focused on areas like payments and lending—things customers do frequently that companies can take a slice of.