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Viacom Discloses YouTube Investor Payouts
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 Sequoia Capital invested a total of $9 million over two funding rounds in 2005 and 2006, and ultimately received $516 million worth of Google stock. This is higher than prior reports of a $442 million payout. If Sequoia held onto its shares, they would now be worth an additional $68 million. Artis Capital, a hedge fund with ties to Sequoia, invested around $3 million in YouTube's Series B round and received $85 million in Google stock. It would be worth another $11 million or so on today's market. Read more »
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Skype, Dodgeball and Other Acquisition Disasters
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 That can take two major forms: The first is executives awarding themselves major bonuses for making deals go through. The second is manager demand for higher salaries that come with larger fiefdoms and more cubicle serfs. But there’s another school of thought blames executive hubris for synergy disappointments. The theory is that executives systematically over-estimate their ability to unlock the potential of corporate assets. They believe that they are superior managers than the schmoes running the acquisition target. Call it a crime of excessive self-esteem. Yet deals keep getting done. Read more »
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Google Takes Aim At Microsoft with DocVerse Acquisition
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| Posted on: March 5th, 2010 |
(Reuters) Google said on its company blog on Friday that it has acquired San Francisco-based DocVerse. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
"With DocVerse, people can begin to experience some of t...
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Google to Topeka: Please Stop, This is Embarrassing
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| Posted on: March 2nd, 2010 |
Oh no you didn't, Topeka.
According to the San Francisco Business Times, in a bid to lure Google and its ultrafast fiber-optic network to its fine city, Topeka, Kansas has renamed itself Google, ...
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Google To Buy Social Search Co Aardvark
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| Posted on: February 11th, 2010 |
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc (GOOG.O) has acquired Aardvark, a San Francisco start-up whose service melds Internet search and social networking.
Aardvark co-founder and top strategy manager...
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Teens in Tech: They’re Here, They’re Young, Get Used To It
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| Posted on: February 10th, 2010 |
Charles River Ventures Google Nimbuzz Palaran Pana.ma True Ventures |
I spent part of my day last Saturday doing something that most adults try to avoid. I hung out with some teens.
Specifically, I attended the second annual Teens in Technology conference at Googleâ€...
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Google Faces Federal Scrutiny On AdMob Acquisition
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| Posted on: December 23rd, 2009 |
The Federal Trade Commission has been talking to Google about AdMob for several weeks and has issued a formal second request for information, Google said today.
Given Google's dominance in search a...
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Whoever Buys Yelp Will Inherit The Lawsuits
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| Posted on: December 18th, 2009 |
Benchmark Capital Bessemer Venture Partners DAG Ventures Google Yelp |
In light of today's reports that Google and maybe other companies are negotiating to buy Yelp, we wonder what an acquisition would mean for the various lawsuits that are filed against Yelp's users.
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Google Buys VC-Backed Gizmo5
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| Posted on: November 16th, 2009 |
Google has acquired Gizmo5, a San Diego-based provider of calling software for mobile phones and computers. No financial terms were disclosed. Gizmo5 had raised around $6 million in VC funding from fi...
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Google Buying AdMob for $750 Million
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| Posted on: November 9th, 2009 |
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc said on Monday that it was acquiring of AdMob, one of the largest mobile advertising networks, for $750 million, widening its bet that cell phone advertising could...
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Jon Steinberg Leaves Google for Polaris
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| Posted on: October 27th, 2009 |
Jon Steinberg has joined Polaris Venture Partners as a New York-based executive-in-residence, according to a message on his blog. He previously was strategic partner development manager for Google’...
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Seed Investing A New Emphasis For CMEA
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| Posted on: September 29th, 2009 |
Per Dan's post this morning that early-stage VCÂ shop CMEA Capital has scrapped plans to raise a $500 million green growth fund, the firm also has gotten more aggressive about seed-stage investing. It...
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Will Google Break Three-Year Dry Spell?
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| Posted on: September 23rd, 2009 |
Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Reuters today that the worst of the recession is behind the company and he expects to start doing about one acquisition a month.
“Acquisitions are turned on again at ...
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Silver Spring Networks Buys Greenbox Tech
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| Posted on: September 23rd, 2009 |
Google JVB Properties Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Foundation Capital Northgate Capital |
Silver Spring Networks, a smart grid networking company, will acquire Greenbox Technology for an undisclosed price. The company has raised around $170 million in venture backing from investors such as...
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Kai-Fu Lee Forms Chinese Business Incubator
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| Posted on: September 6th, 2009 |
Kai-Fu Lee, who last week resigned as president of Google China, has launched Innovation Works, an incubator for Chinese IT startups. It has been funded with $115 million, including from lead investor...
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Head of Google China to Leave as Speculation Abounds About his Next Project
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| Posted on: September 4th, 2009 |
Google announced Thursday night that Kai-Fu Lee, president of its Chinese operations, will leave the company later this month to launch an undisclosed project.
Kai-Fu, who joined the Internet searc...
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And Here’s A Genomics Company That’s Not Getting Funding…
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| Posted on: August 24th, 2009 |
Google Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Mohr Davidow Sequoia Capital |
TruGenetics -- which emerged in June with the promise of free personal genetic scans to the first 10,000 people who registered -- has stopped taking registrations while "we work on developing a new st...
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