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peHUB First Read
Happy Independence Day! For those of you wanting to catch up on the latest private equity and venture capital news links today we have PE giants eyeing up UK’s Card Factory; reasons why you shouldn’t accept money from a VC and it may be a US holiday but eBay isn’t sleeping.
Xobni Sale Looks Like Reknits For Khosla, Relay, RRE and Other VCs
Yahoo’s purchase of Xobni smells like a real stinker for Xobni’s venture backers, which last year valued the email software maker at more than $90 million.
Reuters: Cerberus CEO Drops Stalking Horse Bid for Freedom Group -source
Stephen Feinberg has scrapped a bid for the maker of the Bushmaster rifle, which his private equity firm, Cerberus Capital Management LP, put up for a sale after one of its guns was used in the Newtown, Connecticut school shooting in December, a source tells Reuters.
peHUB Second Opinion 7.3
Twitter is stepping up the targeted ads. An ex-NYU professor is arrested for stalking Citigroup’s chief economist. And the investor of the mouse and desktop interface passes away. And much more!
When It Comes to Online Reviews, Even Loyal Customers Can Spell Trouble
Deceptive reviews have always plagued venture-backed startups whose businesses rely heavily on ratings, but the problem may be more complicated than first thought, according to an academic study. Damaging reviews are sometimes written by loyal customers who haven’t purchased the product they have reviewed, the study found.
Pine Brook Fund II Seeks $2 Bln, Already Closed on More than Half
Pine Brook Partners, which is out fundraising for its second pool, has already collected more than half of the fund’s $2 billion target, sources tell peHUB.
peHUB First Read
Midweek’s First Read brings you video mania in daily deals; how nanoparticles could fight cancer; VC’s bigging up BitCoin and the latest on Yahoo’s acquisition of Qwiki.
peHUB Second Opinion 7.2
Getting to know Don Mattrick, Zynga’s new CEO. Why the bitcoin gold rush is likely to happen in Europe. And the reason Carl Icahn’s first tweet cost him about $2,000. And more!
Venture Deal Making Rebounds In The Second Quarter
Venture capitalists worldwide put $10.4 billion into young companies in the second quarter, an uptick from the depressed levels of the first quarter both internationally and in the United States. North American deal making accounted for 74% of the global total and rose to $7.7 billion,
Acquisition of ecoATM Demonstrates Growing Strength of Corporate Venture Capital
The acquisition today of ecoATM by Outerwall helps demonstrate that corporate venture capital funding is alive and well, says guest columnist Randy Hawks of Claremont Creek Ventures.
Jobs of the Week: Blackstone and Dell are Recruiting
This week Blackstone is on the hunt for a private equity analyst, plus a handful of associate venture positions are open at Dell Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures and Vicente Capital Partners.
The Biggest Tech Deals of the Quarter — Slideshow
Large-cap technology companies didn’t exactly go on a spending spree in the second quarter. However, they did make at least a few big acquisitions. In the following slideshow, we take a look at the Top Ten.
