Innovation and Entrepreneurship

News Corp. is in talks to hand over control of social media website MySpace to Vevo.com, an online music website partly owned by the world’s largest record companies, Bloomberg reported.

The talks are preliminary, and …

Kemin Industries Inc. has entered the personal care market with the launch of a new division, Kemin Personal Care, the company said in a news release. Kerty Levy, former worldwide vice president of Kemin Industries, …

EBay Inc. said today that it has struck a deal to acquire e-commerce and marketing services firm GSI Commerce Inc. for $29.25 per share in cash, totaling $2.4 billion, CNNMoney.com reported. The price represents a …

Google Inc. is joining Citigroup Inc. and MasterCard Inc. to set up a mobile payment system that will turn Android phones into a kind of electronic wallet, Reuters reported, based on a story in The …

Silicon Valley venture capitalists are betting on a new generation of companies that hope to unshackle social networking from personal computers and shift it to cellphones, The Wall Street Journal reported.

On Thursday, Color Labs …

Des Moines will host a local Twestival (a “Twitter festival”) tonight from 5 to 9 p.m. at Mars Café, 2318 University Ave.

Twestival is a national movement by the Connect the Dots Foundation to raise …

Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM) said its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet computer will go on sale in the United States on April 19, as it seeks to compete with Apple Inc.’s iPad, Bloomberg reported.

The announcement …

AT&T Inc. plans to pay $39 billion for Deutsche Telekom AG’s T-Mobile USA division to create a new U.S. mobile market leader, but the deal is likely to attract intense antitrust scrutiny about potentially higher …

Technology giant Cisco Systems Inc. will follow through on a promise it made late last year and will pay out a dividend for the first time in its history, MarketWatch reported.

The first quarterly cash …