It’s no secret in Silicon Valley that Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs get the hottest IPOs. From LinkedIn, Groupon and Zynga last year to Yelp and Facebook this year, it’s been a two-horse race. The irony is that startups and...
Read more »News Reader App Zite Offers Olive Branch to Web Publishers
A year ago, online news aggregator Zite received a cease-and-desist notice from major publishers including Gannett, Time, The Washington Post and Dow Jones. Zite’s app for the iPad was taking content from around the Web, stripping away the ads and...
Read more »SugarCRM Moves Closer to IPO With $33 Million Financing Round
With the IPO window open for business software makers, SugarCRM inched closer to going public in what may be its last private financing round. The Cupertino, California-based company said today that New Enterprise Associates, Silicon Valley Bank and Gold Hill...
Read more »Friend or Unfriend? The Relationship Between Yahoo and Facebook
If the business relationship between Facebook and Yahoo had a status, it would be permanently set to: “It’s Complicated.” The two technology giants have collaborated and quarreled on many issues over the years. The recent legal battle over patents, which...
Read more »Microsoft Group Leaves to Create Hit Tablet App — for Apple’s iPad
A tablet app born out of a project at Microsoft became an instant hit when it debuted last week. Too bad for the software giant, Microsoft had nothing to do with it. The app, called Paper, has been the most...
Read more »McKinsey Alums Target Tech Talent War With Y Combinator Startups
The investors assembled at Y Combinator’s Demo Day in Mountain View are no strangers to the challenges of finding top engineering talent in Silicon Valley. So the crowd was especially attuned to pitches from HireArt and Coderwall, which are working to...
Read more »The Airbnb of Car Repair? Welcome to Y Combinator Demo Day
Internet startups are notorious for calling themselves the (insert hot company here) for (insert sector of your startup here). For example: the Facebook for students, the Groupon for travel, or the Twitter for businesses. But the companies presenting at Y...
Read more »Standing Room Only at Y Combinator Event Puts Startups in Driver’s Seat
It’s a reversal of roles in Silicon Valley’s startup scene: Investors are clamoring for face time with entrepreneurs. Hundreds of tech’s most prominent backers packed into an auditorium at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, today to hear two-minute...
Read more »Tech Deals Grow in Size and Shrink in Frequency, Study Says
Broad shifts in the technology landscape and the large cash positions of some of its biggest players drove an increase in the amount spent on acquisitions last year, PricewaterhouseCoopers said in a study released today. Technology companies spent $125 billion...
Read more »Can Startup Guru Steve Blank Help Save the Sciences?
After eight technology startups, several books and a decade of teaching, some would say that Steve Blank has turned the art of creating a tech company into a science. Still, he never thought his skills would be desired by actual...
Read more »T. Rowe Price Deepens Startup Bet With Investment in ODesk
T. Rowe Price is bolstering its bet on technology startups, and no longer just the ones that get all the headlines. Following investments in Facebook, Twitter, Zynga and Angie’s List among others, the mutual fund company today led a $15...
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