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 […]

Cloud service provider CloudByte has raised a $4 million Series B round of funding that was led by Fidelity Growth Partners India and included existing investors Nexus Venture Partners and Kae Capital. The […]

Accel Partners, which has invested in Cloudera, Fusion-IO and RelateIQ, is making a further big push into big data, as it announces the creation of a second fund focused on startups that are storing, analyzing and […]

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 […]

Time to catch up on some hot stories you may have missed this week. Here are the 10 most popular posts on peHUB based on number of unique pageviews from our regular readers for June 10 – 14.

1. Jobs of the […]

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 […]

Early-stage investor Hyde Park Venture Partners announced this morning that it has wrapped up its inaugural fund with $25 million in commitments. The firm, which did not disclose LPs, was founded in late 2011 by a […]

Big data company GoodData has raised a big round of $22 million, led by TOTVS Ventures, the investment arm of the big Brazilian enterprise software company TOTVS S.A. Also participating in the round are existing […]

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 […]