From their work ethic to their idealism, people in Silicon Valley tend to do things a bit differently.

Turns out those differences extend to the way many of Silicon Valley’s newly rich think about generational […]

Internet surveillance helped stop plots against the NYSE and New York subway system, say intelligence officials.

A headhunter for the rich turns on them.

Introducing the kid VC.

Economist Steven Levitt on […]

Medivo, a New York-based online health monitoring platform, has raised $15 million in Series B financing led by the Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, with participation from existing investors Safeguard […]

Scottsdale, Az.-based DPG Investments and its affliates provided $2.25 million as part of a $2.5 million equity round raised by KAJ Hospitality, a South Dakota outfit focused on hospitality management and […]

EMCOR Group of Norwalk, Conn., has entered into an agreement to acquire RepconStrickland, which offers turnaround and specialty services to the North American refinery and petrochemical markets. EMCOR, a […]

Campbell Soup Company, based in Camden, New Jersey, is acquiring Kelsen Group A/S. The company, based in Nørre Snede, Denmark, makes baked snacks, including sweet biscuits, that are sold in 85 countries. Campbell […]

For several years now, General Catalyst, the Cambridge, Mass.-based investment firm, has been seeking out executives who have run large companies in order to establish what’s become its executive-in-residence […]

Three former NSA officials speak out: “The government unchained itself from the Constitution after 9/11.”

Google settles a shareholder class action lawsuit, clearing the way to issue a new class of nonvoting […]

Larry Ellison’s fantasy island.

After the crash: Driver’s license, registration, cellphone, please.

Thousands of tech, finance, and manufacturing companies work closely with U.S. national security agencies, <a […]

Woot! Human genes can’t be patented, rules the Supreme Court.

Rupert Murdoch and wife Wendi Deng are divorcing. (Says a surprised Satan, “I didn’t have a clue that they were having problems.”)

Finally, an […]

Almost a year after closing on a $65 million fund-of-funds that focuses on small and mid-sized early-stage venture capital funds, San Francisco-based Industry Ventures is in the market again, according to a <a […]

Ron Palmeri is finally stepping into the spotlight — and staking his claim to Minor Ventures’ stellar track record.
For more than five years, Palmeri largely worked in the background as a managing director at […]

Zuga Medical, a Cleveland, Oh.-based medical device company that is developing an FDA-approved dental implant system, has received $250,000 in funding from the nonprofit venture development organization JumpStart. […]

Private equity goes on a beer run.

UBS loses a private equity exec.

Stephen Hester, chief of the Royal Bank of Scotland, is stepping down in a surprise departure.

Wall Street is obsessed with […]

Origin Ventures has been a consistent, and consistently low-key, early-stage player in Chicago’s startup scene. The firm raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding for its first go-round in 1999. In 2005, it […]

Google officially acquires Waze and says its product development team will remain in Israel for now.

David Murdock once took Dole Food private. Now he’s betting that he can do it again.

Even university […]

Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference kicked off today in San Francisco. Here’s what you might have missed.

And here are are the new iOS features your old phone won’t be coming to older-generation iOS […]

Dissecting big tech’s denial of its involvement in the NSA’s PRISM spying program.

President Obama: No one is listening to your phone calls.

How metadata can be more revealing than your actual […]

The dirty secrets of the country’s very worst charities.

If you think this Verizon business is bad:  U.S. intelligence has been mining data from Google, Facebook, Apple and six others U.S. Internet companies <a […]

The Indiana Economic Development Corporation, in partnership with the private venture development organizationElevate Ventures, is launching the Indiana Diversity Investment Fund (IDI Fund), the two outfits […]