Posted on: May 23, 2013 by Connie Loizos
Lyft lifts a stunning $60 million from Andreessen Horowitz, Yahoo makes its second acquisition this week, and for young analysts, it’s college to investment bank to buyout fund, in just a few months. And so much more!
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Posted on: May 22, 2013 by Connie Loizos
Inside Google’s secret lab; Twitter is beefing up security following a spate of attacks on prominent media outlets; and Tesla’s newest offering reaps more than $1 billion. And so much more!
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Posted on: May 21, 2013 by Connie Loizos
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Posted on: May 20, 2013 by Connie Loizos
Will Tumblr “screw up” Yahoo? GE Ventures officially opens for business in Silicon Valley. Seamless and Grubhub have merged into an online food-ordering hydra. And so much more!
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Posted on: May 17, 2013 by Connie Loizos
Is Yahoo acquiring Tumblr? We may find out on Monday. The IPOs of business software companies Tableau Software and Marketo both soared today. And SAC says it’s done cooperating with federal securities regulators. And so much more!
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Posted on: May 16, 2013 by Connie Loizos
A new comedy series about Silicon Valley written by Mike Judge was just picked up by HBO. It’s looking likely that Groupon won’t have a new CEO until next year. And 23andMe gene analysis shows this week’s NVCA conference attendees have a higher-than-average chance of going bald. And so much more!
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Posted on: May 15, 2013 by Connie Loizos
Demi Moore is after a piece of Ashton Kutcher’s venture capital fund, Google+ gets more Pinteresting, and a tech M&A machine hits the brakes. And so much more!
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Posted on: May 14, 2013 by Connie Loizos
Larry Page explains why he lost his voice. The payments startup Square unveils Stand, a countertop point-of-sale system. And does an MBA make you happy? And so much more!
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Posted on: May 13, 2013 by Connie Loizos
Can a snooping scandal break Wall Street’s Bloomberg addiction? Bill Gates on Steve Jobs: We grew up together. And New York’s attorney general asks Google, Apple and Samsung why, exactly, they can’t render stolen phones inoperable. And so much more!
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Posted on: May 10, 2013 by Connie Loizos
Roughly one-third of air passengers neglect to turn off their electronic devices during take-off or landing. By accident, really! The new proposal by Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management for Dell presents some new complications. And so much more!
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