Wattpad

Naver, Korea's leading internet platform, has completed its acquisition of Wattpad for more than $600 million in cash and stock. Wattpad will remain headquartered in Toronto under the leadership of founders Allen Lau and Ivan Yuen. Lau will serve as CEO, reporting to Jun Koo Kim, CEO of Webtoon, Naver's online comics platform.  Read more

Naver, Korea's leading internet platform, is acquiring Wattpad for more than $600 million in cash and stock.  Read more

For Allen Lau, it turns out that sometimes the biggest decision in a business can be to stick to your original idea and build on it.

That's his story, anyway. It's the story of Wattpad Corp., a Canadian company that started in 2006 as an online reading room and now attracts 70 million users a month to its site and app in more than 50 languages.  Read more

It took a less than an hour in 2013 for Anna Todd to change her life. The Army wife and part-time babysitter had spent a lot of time reading fan fiction, stories by amateur writers about existing fictional universes and real-life celebrities.  Read more

The year is 2014. A bearded man with strange forearm tattoos materialises in your boardroom, claiming to come from the future. How he got there isn't clear, although he's riding what looks like the bastard child of a single gear 'fixie' road bike and a mainframe computer. He wears jeggings.  Read more