Can Facebook go mobile? Its path--and the budding online business'--may not converge, ever, according to peHUB's guest columnist.
Twitter is all over the London Olympics--for better or for worse--and the micro-messaging site is playing for keeps in the advertising game.
Israeli start-up Cortica has closed a $7 million investment from Horizons Ventures, the venture capital fund owned by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-Shing, and from Ynon Kreiz, the former Chairman & CEO of the Endemol Group, the company said. As a result, Kreiz joins Cortica as its chairman. PRESS RELEASE Israeli start-up Cortica today […]
(Reuters) – Venture capital firm Accel Partners said it has hired a new partner from big-data company Splunk, underscoring Silicon Valley’s growing obsession with technology that helps businesses collect and analyze massive amounts of information. Jake Flomenberg, formerly director of product management at Splunk, has “a deep technical background, and a good lens into […]
QuickPay Corp., a provider of mobile parking payment technology, has added Barney Pell as chief executive and wrapped up a $3.5 million seed financing. Pell was previously the Founder of Powerset, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2008. QuickPay investors include Detroit-based Fontinalis Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and Advanced Technology Ventures. Core News Facts: — QuickPay […]
Shareholder Representative Services’ latest Q&A features Amr Salahieh. Salahieh is the founder of Shifamed LLC, a Silicon Valley-based medical device incubator founded in 2009. Shifamed recently sold Maya Medical, a medical device company focused on the treatment of hypertension, to Covidien in a deal valued at up to $230 million. Salahieh discusses the incubator model, […]
In Silicon Valley, the prevailing attitude is that criticizing entrepreneurs should be off-limits. It shouldn't be.
Movea, a developer of motion processing and data fusion technologies, added a new round of funding, bagging 6.5 million Euros ($7.95 million) from Intel Capital, iSource and GIMV. Movea is based in Grenoble, France. PRESS RELEASE Movea (www.movea.com), a leader in motion processing and data fusion technologies, today announced it has secured a new round […]
Veros Systems, a developer of technology to monitor the reliability and energy efficiency of electrically powered rotating machines, has added a third tranche of a $1.5 million investment from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund. Veros Systems is based in College Station, Texas PRESS RELEASE Veros Systems today announced that it has been awarded the […]
The measure, passed by Congress in March, is designed to grease the IPO onramp for small companies. Three months after it was signed into law, signs of its impact, both expected and unexpected, are visible.