It is probably wise to take Thiel’s idea of an end to aging (or at least its radical postponement) seriously. It does not seem that long ago that the Beatles could plausibly portray geriatri... Read more
May offer a path to lower payment processing and more secure transactions The currency known as bitcoin — a much-hyped and much-doubted type of digital cash that can be bought with tradition... Read more
Never let it be said that Elon Musk, a serial entrepreneur who was a co-founder of PayPal and the electric car company Tesla Motors, is afraid to think big. Mr. Musk on Monday harked back to... Read more
The idea that innovation and new technology have stopped driving growth is getting increasing attention. But it is not well founded BOOM times are back in Silicon Valley. Office parks along... Read more
The eccentric PayPal billionaire doesn’t just invest in Silicon Valley tech companies. He’s giving money for projects that do everything from get power from the weather to find ways to progr... Read more
Elon Musk is nothing if not ambitious. The billionaire tech entrepreneur who co-founded PayPal in 1998 and sits at the forefront of a whole bevvy of industries as the CEO of both electric ca... Read more
EDEN FULL should be back at Princeton by now. She should be hustling to class, hitting the books, acing tests. In short, she should be climbing that old-school ladder toward a coveted spot a... Read more
We are in the midst of a great revolution the payments space We are in the midst of a great revolution the payments space: anyone with a phone can now accept credit cards; online-to-offline... Read more
In 2009, a startup known as Breakthrough announced it would make it cheap and easy for people to receive confidential counseling on the web. Three years later, with the upholding of healthca... Read more
PayPal and Apple are working on alternatives which could be simpler to install Google and others are promoting Near Field Communication technology, which involves replacing credit car... Read more
Unlike Square, ZipPay won’t use a dongle The easiest way to describe stealthy mobile payments startup ZipPay is to say it’s like Square and Venmo had a baby, and this was the result. Like Sq... Read more
A mobile app that allows users to get assigned basic “gigs” or jobs from companies AdMob founder Omar Hamoui has made an investment in Gigwalk, a mobile app that allows users to get assigned... Read more
LET the rest of the country worry about a double-dip recession. Tech land, stretching from San Jose to San Francisco, is in a time warp, and times here are still flush. Even now, technology... Read more
Peter Thiel says the United States no longer cares much about science or technology One of the Internet’s most influential investors and entrepreneurs is offering a dire prediction: th... Read more