Venture capital picks up the Moneyball strategy
A Moneyball-style revolution is taking place in venture capital. Just as the renegade general manager of the Oakland A’s flouted assumptions about baseball and replaced gut feelings and outdated...
View Article9 startups coming to Silicon Valley from Canada’s biggest accelerator,...
Nine startups from Montréal accelerator FounderFuel’s recent graduates are coming to Silicon Valley. The temporary move is funded by the Consulate General of Canada in San Francisco, and the goal is to...
View ArticleWith $141M Cariden buy-up, Cisco’s acquisition spree continues
Networking and infrastructure giant Cisco Systems is showing no signs of slowing down. It just acquired its third company this month. Cisco will pay approximately $141 million in cash for...
View ArticleLynda.com raises $103M to tackle the tech talent crunch
We are at a crossroads. At the outset of 2013, unemployment rates are high, math and science test scores are low, there is a global need for technical talent, and a call for entrepreneurs to save...
View ArticleDell finally goes private in $24.4B deal, Microsoft chips in $2B loan
After a month of speculation, Dell officially announced this morning that it will be going private in a $24.4 billion deal with founder Michael Dell and investment firm Silver Lake. Microsoft also...
View ArticleGoogle buys Channel Intelligence for $125M to make Google Shopping smarter
In it’s never-ending quest to take on Amazon, Google has snapped up Channel Intelligence, a company that offers a variety of products to drive online shopping sales, for $125 million. Channel...
View ArticleThe 20 biggest private exits of 2012 (for the top 20 VC firms of the year)
Private company research firm Privco has ranked the top 20 merger and acquisitions of the top 20 technology VC firms of 2012, including Ancestry.com’s $1.6 billion sale to private equity firm Permira...
View Article500 Startups’ Paul Singh: ‘This decade will be the rise of the angels’
VANCOUVER — According to Paul Singh, a partner at accelerator 500 Startups, this is the decade of the angels. He’s speaking tonight at GrowLabs’ demo day in Vancouver, and the message is not too much...
View ArticleYahoo acquires news summarization app Summly — will be integrated in Yahoo’s...
Yahoo has acquired Summly, a startup that has developed technology to automatically summarize news articles for mobile sites, the company announced this morning. Terms of the transaction weren’t...
View ArticleData-visualization startup Tableau Software files for $150M IPO
Seattle-based data-visualization startup Tableau Software made the fastest-growing Tech 200 list in 2011 and again in 2012. And just in November, we picked it as one of 10 startups leading the way in...
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