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Belly Gets $10 Million In Funding, Founder Calls Chicago “Proving Ground” For Startups

Digital loyalty rewards program Belly announced that it has secured $10 million in Series B funding from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz

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RIAA, ICE Shutdown Of Hip Hop Blog Further Implodes After Documents Are Unsealed

In a development that crystallizes tension between entertainment industry anti-piracy measures and the ecosystem of online businesses – and raises questions about whether it is appropriate for trade groups like.

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FTC Settles Myspace Privacy Violations… Wait, Myspace Still Exists?

Yesterday the Federal Trade Commission announced that social network Myspace has agreed to settle charges that it misrepresented the protection it offered to users’ personal information, in an agreement that.

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Why We Shouldn’t Want To Know FAKEGRIMLOCK’s Identity

The startup scene’s newest celebrity isn’t a teenage CEO or a member of the Facebook mafia. Instead, the most sought after startup superstar is a robot dinosaur called FAKEGRIMLOCK. Weird?.

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Microsoft COO Pledges Carbon Neutrality By July

Kevin Turner, Chief Operating Officer of Microsoft, published a blog post today pledging to make the software giant carbon neutral across all of its direct operations beginning in July of.

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Polamatic By Polaroid: Instagram’s Inspiration Releases Its Own Photo App

Polaroid, the original company behind the square photography of yesteryear, has thrown its hat into the mobile photo sharing ring with its new app: Polamatic.

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Apple Fights For iPhone 5 Domain

Obligatory predictions about the features of Apple’s iPhone 5 are circulating around the web, but the company has been tight-lipped about the existence of the next generation smartphone until recently. Apple is.

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PR And VCs Behaving Badly, or How And Why I Became A Shill For Zynga’s “Draw Something” On Japanese Television

Pics or it didn’t happen, right? Well… it happened. That’s a picture of me being interviewed by reporters from Japanese television station TV Asahi when I was in Tokyo a.

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SEC Probe Likely Following Groupon Revenue Revisions (Infographic)

Many people expect that recent revisions in Groupon’s financial statements will lead to a formal investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company’s stock has been on a rocky.

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Who’s Flying Unmanned Drones In The US? Here’s A List

  Do you feel like you’re being watched? Maybe you are, by a legally-licensed aerial drone, flown by the government or a private entity. The United States’ use of armed,.

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