Author George

Flipboard is inching ever closer to the billion-dollar club. Today they confirmed they had raised an additional $50 million, bringing their Series C financing total to $100 million. This closes the funding...

Evan talks about how Snapchat will make money at Techcrunch Disrupt, San Francisco...

Today SoftBank paid $1.5 billion for a 51% stake in Finnish mobile games maker Supercell, the maker of 'Clash of Clans' and 'Hay Day'. Not bad for a company with 100 people and just two active...

It seems that Travis Kalancik has really been busy. His uber-fast growing transportation app has raised $258 million from private equity giant TPG and Google Ventures. According to a Delaware filing the...

I have to recommend this great piece by Kara Swisher in Vanity Fair. Unlike the tech magazines and blogs, VF is able to really dig deep into the story behind the world's first Billion Dollar App. The sale of...

You don't often find out how much founders make from the sale of their apps - so it's all the more fun when you do the digging and find out. Waze has been called the most lucrative technology startup and app...

Some journeys definitely do take a long time - Waze - the Israeli social-mapping app took a good 7 years to make it there. Today Google announced that they would be acquiring the company for $1.1 billion. The...