James Allgrove, who runs operations in the UK, Stripe's second-biggest market, believes that "online commerce is the last Google-sized problem on the internet", and, naturally, that Stripe is the solution.

Josh Tyrangiel, editor for Bloomberg Businessweek, reports on Apple's latest consumer products and how Apple has maintained its competitive edge.

Founder James Roy Poulter and the team at Pronto have created an on-demand food delivery service in London that is so quick they have had to reassure users ordering food can really be this simple.

Ross Perlin ▪ September 14, 2015 Today there's an Uber for everything-slick tools, backed by big capital, that tap into widespread economic insecurity, selling the same old middleman services and extracting some serious surplus value. Don't call it sharing-it's the on-demand economy.

Following up on a recent post on the topic, someone asked me a simple question: "What exactly is Product Hunt's secret?" I think the magic happens because all the parties involved in the ecosystem in scope (tech products) are actively participating, they have their own motivations and they can be fulfilled by the platform.

Five years ago, everybody was excited about the idea of using tech to borrow things like power drills. In practice, though, not so much.

We love our smartphones. Not only have they become our most used computer, but more importantly, smartphones provide an unimaginable amount of power at our fingertips. However, the smartphone form factor leaves opportunities for other devices to provide this same kind of incredible power only in even more personal ways.

It was the most ambitious library project of our time-a plan to scan all of the world's books and make them available to the public online. "We think that we can do it all inside of ten years," Marissa Mayer, who was then a vice-president at Google, said to this magazine in 2007, when Google Books was in its beta stage.

With Facebook now reaching more than 1 billion users in a single day, many people have resigned MySpace - which over a decade ago made online social networking mainstream - to the history books.

TEL AVIV and JERUSALEM -- While banking a white Audi on Route 443 outside Jerusalem, Shalom Mines nonchalantly let go of the steering wheel and took his foot off the gas. In an instant, a camera-and-software system made by Mobileye, a Jerusalem company developing autonomous-car technology, took over, navigating the vehicle through a curve.

An ancient email privacy law might finally be updated. Congress needs to get it right.

Edith Ramirez wants Silicon Valley to see her agency as something more than a wrist slapper. Last Wednesday, the Chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) came to San Francisco to host the agency's first "Start with Security" conference, an initiative to institute broad guidelines for consumer privacy protection.

'Hey Siri, take me home tonight' Using your smartphone while behind the wheel is a terrible idea. It's distracting, it's clumsy, and it's just plain unsafe for you, your passengers, and other people on the road. But since the smartphone is the epicenter of our digital lives, it's really hard not to want to use it while driving.

Fears over privacy are nothing new. As users began to see the sheer availability of information online, and the amount of personal data being seen and used by tech companies, they became rightly concerned over how much information would be available to companies and individuals, and how that information would be used.

To the tech entrepreneurs who've set up shop on the Silicon Prairie, there's no better place to be. Silicon Valley ideas get meshed with Midwestern values, resulting in a low-key and collaborative community of startups in Minnesota that stands in sharp contrast to the in-your-face, cutthroat lifestyle in California.

When Troy Carter first came to Silicon Valley from Los Angeles, he had to become bilingual. The tech companies and venture capitalists spoke in a different way than people in Hollywood, Carter told Business Insider in an interview.

It is not your fault that VC markets such as Mexico and other emerging VC hubs are still quite not ripe. The responsibility to create irresistible investment opportunities for local and foreign investors that will generate a booming ecosystem is ours.

If the first day of Scaling Bitcoin focused on fostering constructive dialogue, day two moved the conversation toward defining how that dialogue would proceed following the event and how such discussion could coalesce into a clearer vision for the open-source technology's future.

It's just a stylus. You'd be forgiven for thinking otherwise, though. Watching that gorgeous video, listening to Jony Ive tell you in reverent terms how Apple made a pen that feels like every other pen but is nothing like any other pen, you might believe the Apple Pencil is some radical new technology.

British composer Hélène Muddiman’s plan would charge online audiences every time they view an artist’s material.

Today, MIT President Rafael Reif announced an exciting collaboration between MIT and the Boston University School of Law " to assist students with a broad range of legal matters related to entrepreneurship and cyber law, from basic issues associated with the founding of startup companies to novel questions about the application of laws and regulations to students' innovation-related activities" (here's the BU press release).

There we were, $1.1 million of investor funding on the line, flatlined growth, a burn rate that would make even seasoned entrepreneurs cringe, and daily founder battles that were promising to undo all that we had built. We knew we had to make some hard decisions, or our company wouldn't last the next few months.

On the other hand, one could also compare Excel with Photoshop. Both are powerful, sophisticated, complex tools that are unmatched in filling the needs of a core professional market. Excel is also a very broad and flexible tool that people use for lots of quite different things.