If something seems a little strange to you about The Velvet Sundown, a band with more than 1 million monthly listeners on Spotify, you're not wrong.

The point of Stardoll was to dress celebrity avatars, not to gawk at them in their skivvies—but as a closeted tween multitasker, I was capable of doing both.

A relaxing game with a strong focus on customization and dressing up a character has proven to be a winning formula countless times.

Daniel Ek's career gained momentum in 2006 when he took on a senior role at Tradera, a Nordic auction site later acquired by eBay. In the same year, he became the CTO of Stardoll, a browser-based game ...

As younger generations spend more and more of their lives on the internet — which is more ephemeral than most realize — and as internet trends cycle through increasingly brief lifespans, our past ...

Diego Farias started his career in 2004 working for an internet e-commerce company in Sweden, which was later acquired by eBay. After spending a year as Community Specialist, Farias moved on to ...

From bestseller lists to runways, gaming’s influence is all-powerful. Marie Le Conte meets the women reshaping our world. Photographs by Lucian Bor. Styling by Julia Brenard ...

Who is Andreas Ehn? When Daniel Ek started his journey of forming Spotify, Andreas Ehn was an engineering manager at Stardoll. Daniel didn’t have to put much effort to lure Andreas to Spotify since ...

Stardoll still exists as some shell of its former self, as far as I can tell. Its front page is mostly populated with paper dolls uploaded around 2011, around the time I used it most passionately.