Tech investors are banking on e-cigarettes, a way to inhale nicotine without smoke. E-cigarette maker NJOY just scored a $75 million round of investment including $10 million from Sean Parker and $5 million from Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, reports T

A group including Silicon Valley entrepreneur Sean Parker is investing $75 million in a leading maker of electronic cigarettes, part of a wave of money firing up a market that is under increasing regulatory scrutiny.

Given the way he has lived the rest of his life, no one really expected Sean Parker – the hard-partying playboy of tech – to have a quiet, modest wedding. Nor did he disappoint. Parker and his young songstress girlfriend, Alexandra Lenas,

Earlier this week, billionaire Sean Parker paid $2.5 million to the state of California for his medieval-themed wedding in Big Sur, Calif.   Parker's wedding sparked some criticism because he temporarily installed structures in an

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Billionaire Sean Parker has agreed to pay a $2.5 million fine for failing to get permits to build a fairytale set in a redwood forest for his wedding last weekend, a California Coastal Commission staff report said.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 4 (Reuters) - Billionaire Sean Parker has agreed to pay a $2.5 million fine for failing to get permits to build a fairytale set in a redwood forest for his wedding last weekend, a California Coastal Commission staff report said.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 4 (Reuters) - Billionaire Sean Parker has agreed to pay a $2.5 million fine for failing to get permits to build a fairytale set in a redwood forest for his wedding last weekend, a California Coastal Commission staff report said.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 4 (Reuters) - Billionaire Sean Parkerhas agreed to pay a $2.5 million fine for failing to get permitsto build a fairytale set in a redwood forest for his weddinglast weekend, a...

SAN FRANCISCO, June 4 (Reuters) - Billionaire Sean Parker has agreed to pay a $2.5 million fine for failing to get permits to build a fairytale set in a redwood forest for his wedding last weekend, a California Coastal Commission staff report said.

New government documents show just how over-the-top Sean Parker's extravagant $10 million wedding in the  Big Sur forest really was. The state of California actually fined the Facebook billionaire $2.5 million over it. That's because he built a

Billionaire Sean Parker, the Napster co-founder and early Facebook employee, has agreed to pay a $2.5-million penalty for the unpermitted development of an elaborate wedding stage in a coastal redwood forest.    

Facebook billionaire Sean Parker spent $10 million on the Big Sur wedding of his dreams but the state of California was not entirely pleased. It fined him $2.5 million over it. The problem was that he built a cottage, fake ruins, waterfalls, staircas

Former Facebook President, Sean Parker got married over the weekend. There was a lot of gossip, and hype heading into his wedding, with rumors flying of a crazy, Game of Thrones-themed event. It's unclear if that happened, but one of the John Perry

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Billionaire Sean Parker, co-founder of music-sharing website Napster and the first president of Facebook, was married on Saturday in Northern California, a representative for the couple said.

LOS ANGELES, June 1 (Reuters) - Billionaire Sean Parker,co-founder of music-sharing website Napster and the firstpresident of Facebook, was married on Saturday in NorthernCalifornia, a representative for the couple said.

LOS ANGELES, June 1 (Reuters) - Billionaire Sean Parker, co-founder of music-sharing website Napster and the first president of Facebook, was married on Saturday in Northern California, a representative for the couple said.

BIG SUR, Calif. — Napster co-founder and early Facebook adviser Sean Parker is set to get married in California's Big Sur region. The San Jose...

How do wealthy tech entrepreneurs spend the millions and billions of dollars they've made? Some give it to charities. Others party portions of it away and buy really expensive toys. Here are some of the most extravagent ways people like Sean Parker a

Sean Parker and his fiance Alexandra Lenas have no problem burning cash. The couple, worth an estimated $2 billion from Parker's time at Facebook, is reportedly living in New York City's Plaza Hotel while their 6-story townhouse in Greenwich Villiage

Sean Parker, former Facebook president and Napster co-founder, is reportedly planning an elaborate ceremony in Big Sur with faux ruins, waterfalls and bridges. SAN FRANCISCO — Even in the annals of over-the-top celebrity weddings, Sean Parker's

Sean Parker is marrying his long-time girlfriend and the mother of his child, Alexandra Lenas. The June 1 nuptials will be elaborate.  According to TMZ, Parker has hired a landscaping company to build a $8.6 million backdrop, complete with a tem

Yesterday, a crazy story about Sean Parker's wedding broke. According to the New York Post, Parker was going to have a "medieval theme" for his wedding that could end up looking like an episode of "Game of Thrones." Parker set the record straight on

Alexandra Lenas and Sean Parker have been engaged since February 2011, and last year they had a child together, Winter Victoria Parker. They've settled on a date for their wedding, which will be in Big Sur, California on June 1. The th

Alexandra Lenas and Sean Parker have been engaged since February 2011, and last year they had a child together, Winter Victoria Parker. They've settled on a date for their wedding, which will be in Big Sur, California on June 1. The theme? Medieval

Former Facebook president and Napster founder Sean Parker hasn't given up on his struggling video startup, Airtime. Last summer, Parker and notable tech executive Shawn Fanning launched Airtime in front of media like The New York Times and Entertain

Billionaire entrepreneur Sean Parker threw a party for the ages in Davos last night. I've described the details and some of the guests here (link repeated below). As I mentioned, one of the guests was Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein. Lloyd was in fine fo

The hot ticket in Davos this evening is a "taxidermy" party thrown by billionaire entrepreneur Sean Parker, Salesforce.com CEO Mark Benioff, and Ian Osborne of the London-based communications firm Osborne & Partners. Billed as the "Future Of Phil

Former Facebook President and Airtime co-founder Sean Parker is now a father. He and his fiance Alexandra Lenas had a baby girl yesterday. They've named her Winter Victoria Parker. No pictures of the newest Parker have been released yet. The pair hav

Twitter chairman Jack Dorsey, Spotify investor Sean Parker, and other tech celebrities are backing an effort Friday morning to raise awareness about gun violence in the wake of the tragic shooting at a Connecticut school. Here's how to participa

It must be really frustrating for first-time entrepreneurs to look at Color or Airtime. While they're struggling to raise money for their startups as unestablished names in tech, serial entrepreneurs like Sean Parker and Bill Nguyen are able to raise

It sounds like a recipe for success for a new start-up: Two famed entrepreneurs, tens of millions of dollars in the bank and endorsements...

Sean Parker's video chat startup Airtime only has 400 daily active users, Jenna Wortham at The New York Times reports. Wortham's numbers come from AppData, which tracks users via Facebook Connect. In order to use Airtime, you have to be logged in to

Sean Parker's much-hyped startup has run out of steam. Time to admit it.

Being head honcho of a start-up has rarely been described as "easy." Sean Parker, former hacker and Silicon Valley legend, described his own turbulent business...

The Napster and Airtime co-founder says too many people with terrible ideas are founding companies.

Also: Zuckerberg visits Russia, Paul Allen weighs in on Windows 8, and Sean Parker talks Airtime.

After a splashy, star-studded launch in June backed by $33 million in VC funding, Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning's startup Airtime hasn't gone anywhere. A few months in, it only has about 10,000 monthly active users and its executives are dropping lik

This is how Sean Parker -- the famous and sometimes infamous entrepreneur whose legendary credits include Napster, Facebook and Spotify -- described how his newest...

By WSJ's Small-Business Team One-hit wonders: Napster founder Sean Parker says most entrepreneurs don't remain entrepreneurs after they hit success, opting instead to become investors. The New York Times. Ruffled feathers: Boston Mayor Thomas M. Me

Sean Parker recently launched a startup, Airtime, with his Napster cofounder Shawn Fanning.Until recently, he wasn't sure he wanted to start another company. When you've had a mega success as an entrepreneur, like Parker did with Napster, it's hard t

Sean Parker, the 32-year-old billionaire and former president of Facebook — played by Justin Timberlake in “The Social Network” — was sitting on the top...

Sean Parker, a co-founder of Napster, bemoans the way so many entrepreneurs shift into investment instead of shooting for another big success of their own.

Sean Parker's Facebook-connected video chat application, Airtime, launched with an enormous amount of hype last month.So, where is it now, about a month later?Well, if you take a look at Airtime on AppData, the numbers don't look good: it has around

Microsoft is holding a big event today, but until a few minutes ago no one knew where it was going to be.Turns out it's going to be at Milk Studios in Los Angeles. Sean Parker recently used Milk Studios in New York to launch AirTime. We don't know mu

Napster founders Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning about their new video start-up Airtime.

We recently interviewed Sean Parker, the former President of Facebook, and his Airtime cofounder Shawn Fanning.Both believe that a business' success is either calculated or an accident.If it's an accident and the company becomes successful by dumb-lu

Fanning and Parker are back. Previously, Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker gave us Napster, and we know how that turned out. Then, one of them (Parker, to be specific), went on to be played by recording artists and actor Justin Timberlake and famously to

Sean Parker has come out and said what Mark Zuckerberg is probably thinking right now: Screw IPOs. Appearing on CNBC Wednesday, Parker, the former president...

Paul Graham wrote an email to Y Combinator's portfolio companies about what Facebook's underwhelming IPO meant for them."What I do worry about is (a) it may be harder to raise money at all, regardless of price and (b) that companies that previously r