apps
This 22-Year-Old Just Landed $25 Million for a Secret App
Sam Biddle · 06/27/13 10:42AMLucas 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.
Today's Super Addictive iPhone Game Might Be Tomorrow's Disaster IPO
Sam Biddle · 06/18/13 10:14AMZynga went public over the popularity of a few hit Facebook games, and is now in the process of collapsing into a mush pit. Now the makers of Candy Crush Saga, the jellybean puzzle game gripping the brains of America, are plotting an IPO, the Wall Street Journal reports. First as tragedy, then as farce.