Lady Gaga, Eric Schmidt and others will invest ~$1M in Backplane internet starup.
What do Lady Gaga and Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt have in common?
Schmidt’s Tomorrow Ventures and Gaga have partnered up to finance Cartier’s still in stealth startup, with Gaga being a 20% shareholder. Tomorrow Ventures is leading the angel round, which is currently at over $1 million. It is not clear yet as to whether the round has closed. Read more...
Amazon says it’s ready for new Lady Gaga offer
Not disheartened, Amazon.com is giving its Lady Gaga discount another go today.
In an attempt to drum up interest in its new Cloud Drive digital music storage service, Amazon this past Monday offered Lady Gaga's new album, Born This Way, for 99 cents.
As an added bonus, anyone who bought the specially priced album was upgraded to 20GB of cloud storage, which is normally available for $20 a year or through the purchase of a full-price album. Read more...