Alexander Haislip

A few interesting Web tidbits for you today: Ross Levinsohn was fired from News Corp for raising a $500 million Internet roll-up fund, Tony Perkins tells Sarah Meyers of Internet TV show Pulse at the DFJ Schmoozefest. Red Herring reports computer maker Dell, with its $60 million market capitalization, could be a takeover target. It […]

Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Partech, and one other VC firm settled a lawsuit leveled at them by the former CEO of portfolio company Agentis International, who alleged he wasn’t getting the severance package the VCs had promised him, according to court documents obtained by PE Week. You can read the story here. Behind the velvet rope, […]

RockYou settled with Iconix, less than a week after we broke the news of the court injunction filed against the Sequoia startup. Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong had issued a preliminary injunction that favored Iconix, which formerly employed both Lance Tokuda and Jai Shen, the founders of NetPickle (aka RockYou). She ruled that there is enough […]

If you weren’t at the Hiller Air Museum on Thursday night for Draper Fisher Jurvetson’s Schmoozefest 2006, you missed out on the 16-piece orchestra, a crooning Tim Draper, Sky High blue cocktails and Steve Jurvetson’s effervescent description of his soon-to-be-made Tesla roadster (see slideshow on jump page). The last DFJ Schmoozefest was held during the […]

Lance Tokuda, founder of embattled photo-slide show startup RockYou, pulled down his personal blog this afternoon. He had written detailed notes about his venture fundraising efforts on it earlier this spring. But fear not loyal PE Week and PE Hub readers! Google cached it for you so you could read the superfluous name-dropping first hand. […]

Lance Tokuda asked me to leave the one year anniversary party for Web2.0 startup RockYou last night. He didn’t want to answer questions about the injunction a U.S. District Judge slapped on his startup, prohibiting the use of programming code he may have developed while working at another company. Tokuda is in danger of losing […]

Tom Noe, a coin dealer that took $50 million from the Ohio Board of Workers Compensation between 1998 and 2001, was convicted Monday of theft, corrupt activity, money laundering, forgery and tampering with records, according to press reports. The corrupt activity charge could land him a mandatory 10-year prison sentence. Noe’s actions were the catalyst […]

Valleywag, a widely-read Silicon Valley gossip blog, on Friday lost its editor-in-chief Nick Douglas. Douglas had launched the site in January 2006, after having dropping out of college to pursue the opportunity. One source familiar with the site said Douglas was fired for not adequately improving the site’s traffic. His dismissal on Friday was a […]

Alsop-Louie Partners is expected to hold the final close on its inaugural fund in December, pending limited partner approval of a fund size increase, PE Week has learned. The firm secured its $75 million target, but one of its LPs wanted to up its allocation by as much as $10 million. A final close higher […]