On Wednesday, it was announced that the San Francisco-based event promotion and ticketing startup, Eventbrite, had raised $50 million in a round of funding led by Tiger Global. Back in February when we spoke to Eventbrite’s co-founder and President Julia Hartz, she hinted that the company was getting ready to take on the larger ticket [...]

Yesterday at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show – that’s CES to gear heads – RealNetworks, the company that helped introduce music streaming back in 1995, unveiled a cloud-based music service. After months of consumers and tech insiders waiting for Apple or Google to release a cloud solution for music – and one notable false [...]

A new set of rules to regulate Internet traffic was passed this week by the Federal Commmunications Committee. The rules will give the federal government the power to regulate the Internet, in theory giving equal weight to all websites and services. On either side of the debate are broadband and wireless companies (Comcast, AT&T, and [...]