Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has hired Megan Quinn as partner of the companys digital group, where she will focus on consumer Internet investments. Quinn joins the high-profile investment firm fr...
In an interview at paidContent 2012 in New York, venture capitalist Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures said he has stayed away from media investments, and believes that the future for content provi...
Forget the law of averages--when it comes to startup marketing, youre better off maximizing your profits. If youre considering starting your own business , youll have to devote a lot of your initial ...
European Union lawmakers approved a draft law on Thursday making it easier to channel funds into start-up companies from next year, inserting a safeguard the venture capital industry fears will make ...
THE DISPUTE: Broadcasters went to court on Wednesday to try to stop a startup that takes live TV programming and sends it to mobile devices in New York for a monthly fee. They claim copyright infring...
News Corp.s Fox and other broadcasters went to court on Wednesday to try to pull the plug on a startup that takes live TV programming and sends it to mobile devices in New York for a monthly fee.If g...
Fox and other broadcasters want to pull the plug on Aereo, a startup they say steals their signals to provide live programming for iPhone and computer users.Aereo CEO Chaitanya Kanojia (kay-TAHN-yah ...
Kevin Rose, who joined Google in March to work on Google+ along with some of his team from mobile app incubator Milk, has moved to Google Ventures.Rose is now a venture partner at the firm focused on...
Accelrys announced that the Gulf Coast Consortia for Quantitative Biomedical Sciences has signed a five-year licensing agreement with Accelrys to provide investigators in the GCC Chemical Genomics pr...
An interactive education and books crossover started by some of the founders of Zyngas main social gaming rival is taking on $4 million in venture funding.
Big data startups are quickly becoming the next big companies.
New York may not be overtaking the Bay Area as a technology hub, but it is becoming enough of an alternative that a few West Coast-born start-ups are moving east.
Greeces bank support fund on Monday disbursed 18 billion euros to the countrys four biggest banks as a part of a long-planned recapitalization effort, a fund official said. "The funds have been ....
Crowdfunding and online networking are just some of the ways you can find venture capital investors.
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner Ellen Pao is suing the venture capital firm alleging sexual harassment and discrimination, according to a lawsuit filed earlier this month in California Super...
THE VERDICT: Aereo, a startup that takes live TV broadcasts and sends them to mobile devices, has won a partial victory in court over the media companies that are suing it.WHATS LEFT: After a judge d...
With venture-capital investment flocking to social-media startups, who will back nascent startups innovating in such critical industries as material science, sensors, robotics, medical devices and li...
We spoke with the highly sought student to learn why startups are making him offers that "never expire."
Many investors believe they are deprived of high returns generated by venture capital funds. They read about the success of Groupon, LinkedIn, Facebook, and others with envy because most individual i...
I’m very pleased to introduce a new member of our editorial team, Ki Mae Heussner. Ki Mae will be writing about New York startups, with a particular focus on e-commerce and advertising technology. Wi...
Limelight Networks announced that it has formed a strategic partnership with Concentric Cloud Solutions, who has added Limelights integrated content delivery services and cloud-based applications to ...
For the handful of venture capitalists who backed Facebook in its early days, a huge financial payoff is not the only thing they may be celebrating when the company goes public later this week. In a ...
Monster Worldwide Inc has drawn interest from a number of potential buyers, including private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, although at least one would-be suitor, LinkedIn Corp , has decided not ...
Monster Worldwide Inc.s shares soared in trading Friday on a report that LinkedIn Corp. and private equity firm Silver Lake Partners are among several parties considering making a bid for the online-...
Viddy, the popular mobile video start-up, announced on Friday it has raised a hefty $30 million from institutional investors to bolster its expansion efforts in the face of stiff competition from Soc...
Stationery startup Minted, which crowdsources designs for wedding invitations, holiday cards and other correspondence, is now selling crowdsourced art prints. It is also adding Pinterest-like curatio...
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Singapore Telecommunications Ltd , Southeast Asias largest telecoms company, has acquired a Silicon Valley startup in the mobile advertising sector, its second such purchase in two months. SingTels A...
On Monday, CIT Group Inc. announced that it will redeem an additional $2 billion of its 7% Series C senior unsecured notes. These notes will mature in 2017 and would be redeemed at par as well as on ...
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