Opera Online Writers Internship Competition Entrants 2009

When you think of event planning and ticketing services, companies like Ticketmaster, Eventbrite, Ticketfly, and Ticketleap probably come to mind. But event planners often times need more than just ticketing services.  Enter Splash, a one-stop shop for planning events, selling tickets, and ...

New hardware companies are one of the hottest trends in the startup world.  Instead of building apps and Web services, companies are building real physical hardware that you can buy and use.  A lot of these find life on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter, where the community votes with ...

Tumblr was recently acquired by Yahoo for $1.1 billion. Which early employees hit the jackpot with their stock options? We rounded up 14 of the earliest employees at Tumblr. They were the site's first users, template designers, and friends of David Karp's. They didn't all have stock options that ...

Earlier this week, an administrative law judge in New York City ruled that a man renting out his East Village apartment through Airbnb violated the city's law.  New York City has a law that makes it illegal for people to rent out their homes or apartments for less than 29 days. The law is a ...

Google is considering a bid for Israeli mapping startup Waze, Bloomberg News reports. Waze is a mapping app for smartphones that's infused with cool social features. For example, users can tap an icon to alert other users that they saw a highway patrol, looking for speeders. There have already b ...