Yannick LeJacq

Humble Indie Bundle announced on Tuesday its first set of eBooks to be sold and distributed the same way multiplatform, DRM-free way as it sells music and video games.

Adding to a long line of high profile corporate departures, Zynga Inc. (Nasdaq: ZNGA) has now Laurence Toney, general manager of Zynga Poker, one the company’s oldest and most successful products.

Facebook Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) introduced “Collections” on Monday, another new feature to augment sponsored and branded content on its popular social network.

GREE Inc. (TYO: 3632), the Japanese social gaming giant bent on global domination, continued its Western expansion over the weekend with another round of partnerships and a new production platform unveiled Monday.

Google Inc's (Nasdaq: GOOG) YouTube unit will expand the channel experiment begun last year with around 60 new channels launching across Europe.

Ruckus Wireless Inc., the privately-held tech company that has created some of the world’s largest WiFi networks revealed its plans to go public on Friday by submitting an SEC filing for a $100 million initial public offering (IPO).

Zynga (Nasdaq: ZNGA) shares hit a new low Fri following a preliminary third quarter earnings report that warned of future cuts and continued losses for the struggling social game developer.

Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) is halting sales of its new Xperia tablet after discovering a manufacturing defect that makes the device susceptible to water damage.

After a short-lived recovery, Zynga (Nasdaq: ZNGA) shares fell below $3 again following a preliminary third quarter earnings report that warned of future cuts and continued losses for the struggling social game developer.

Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) have finalized a strategic partnership to create Nook Media.

Facebook hit its long awaited milestone of one billion active users on Thursday amid continuing efforts to secure more persuasive revenue streams than investors see today in the struggling social media giant.

Google withdrew a complaint against Apple little more than a month after originally charging them with copyright infringement.

TripAdvisor, the world’s largest travel website, acquired Wanderfly to expand its social networking features beyond those offered by its current presence on Facebook.

Agawi is inviting game developers to submit content with its new Windows 8 app, solidifying Microsoft’s move into cloud-based gaming.

Braintree is rolling out a new feature as part of its effort to rebrand its mobile payments system into a one-stop shop that will scale alongside the companies that use it.

In a rare moment of good news, Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) saw a jump in sales for its Playstation 3 console with the release of a new ‘super-slim’ model.

Sony Corp. (NYSE:SNE) is paying $645 million to buy a large minority stake in rival Japanese tech company Olympus Corp. (TYO: 7733).

Microsoft’s (Nasdaq:MSFT) search engine Bing and Klout are forming a strategic partnership that will allow the tech giant to invest in the new social media company and in turn feature Klout scores within Bing search results, the companies announced Thursday.

Valve, the fiercely independent and eccentric Seattle-based game development studio that’s created some of the most celebrated brands in PC gaming including “Half Life” and the Steam platform, is facing another round of buyout reports, this time from the massively successful Korean video game giant Nexon (TYO:3659).

Tempur-Pedic International Inc. (NYSE: TPX) will buy rival Sealy Corp. (NYSE: ZZ) for $228.6 million to create a "2.7 billion global bedding provider," Tempur-Pedic said.

In its quest to extend the life-span of its current-generation hardware, Sony Corp. (NSYE: SNE) has announced a new u “Day 1 Digital” program to offer competitive pricing for digital sales of new releases. The plan is part of a unique strategy Sony is deploying in the hopes it will keep the console gaming giant's products competitively priced well into the next generation of hardware.

Less than a week after Microsoft Inc. (Nasdaq: MSFT) announced a bold new plan to wade into television-style content creation, a group of high-profile American cable companies including AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T), Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ), and Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWX) are now preparing themselves to challenge video game consoles on their own turf.

Facebook is making a controversial move to optimize its advertising revenue by stepping further into comprehensive data monitoring.

Facebook Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) is joining other major tech and e-commerce companies like Apple, Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) and eBay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY) in the run to revolutionize mobile payments for a new generation of smartphone-friendly users. Adding to its recent unveiling of a new-and-improved advertising system, the struggling tech company announced a streamlined mobile payment system that it hopes will help monetize a greater percentage of its user-base.

Little more than a month after reports surfaced of a potential shutdown of its international studios, Electronic Arts Inc. (Nasdaq: EA) has confirmed that it is closing down operations of its PopCap Dublin studio. The news comes less than a week after EA announced it will create 300 jobs though an expansion in its customer service center in Galway, Ireland.

Pinterest, one of Silicon Valley’s youngest and most recent rising stars of social media, is recruiting Jon Jenkins as head of its engineering operations.

Just days after Zynga lost its chief revenue officer Wilson Kriegel, the former guru of OMGPOP's “Draw Something,” reports have surfaced that the San Francisco-based social game developer is losing yet another executive. This time, it's chief security officer Nils Puhlmann. The latest resignation brings the total number of C-level executive departures from the struggling game developer to 12 in the two months since its weak quarterly earnings report sent the company into disarray in July.

Shortly after Apple's launch of iOS 6 on Wednesday, developers are already flocking to the new operating system's organized mobile payments storage application, Passbook. With major online ticket retailers and services like StubHub, Ticketmaster, and Fandango all jumping on the Passbook bandwagon, Apple may have gained an early lead in the mobile payment marketplace even as new enterprising operations like Square and eBay try their hands at integrating credit card transactions with smartphones and mobile devices.