apps

This 22-Year-Old Just Landed $25 Million for a Secret App

Sam Biddle · 06/27/13 10:42AM

Lucas Duplan dropped out of Stanford, brought a bunch of his buddies with him, and got to work on something daunting: creating an app that lets you pay for things with your phone. This is daunting because so many other things let you do it. Despite this, and the fact that his app is a total mystery, powerful VCs just handed him $25 million.

Dave Morin Thinks Stickers Are the Future

Sam Biddle · 04/25/13 04:38PM

Cloud computing? Quantum photo filters? Uber for dogs? You're over-thinking the tech world, says Dave Morin—all he needs to turn his super-niche Facebook alternative into a winner is for you to buy stickers. Virtual stickers.