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Goodwin Proctor, the law firm, has hired David Van Horne as a member of the firm's business law department, in its San Francisco office. Van Horne will be working with emerging growth companies and venture capital firms.
Intel just bought the 7-year-old startup Mashery, Twitter sharpens its ad targeting by sifting through tweets, and the gourmet cupcake bubble is bursting. And so much more!
Shareholder activists are beginning to aim at bigger targets, Yahoo posts flat first-quarter revenue, Google's next batch of gadgets is a-ma-zing, promises chairman Eric Schmidt, and so much more!
The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm based in Cleveland, has promoted nine professionals to partner, principal, or director, including Joe Lee, who joined Riverside in 2006 and has just been promoted to partner, and Jack Nestor, who joined the firm in 2005 and has also been promoted to partner.
Terrifying explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, tax avoidance schemes of the rich and famous, and coming to a workplace near you: fines for being fat? And so much more!
Yuchan Lee -- cofounder of the marketing software company Unica, which sold to IBM for about $480 million in 2010 -- has joined the Cambridge, Mass.-based venture capital firm General Catalyst Partners as an entrepreneur in resident. Most recently, Lee served as the vice president and general manager of IBM's Enterprise Marketing Management Group.
Altus Capital Partners, a Wilton, Conn.-based middle market private equity firm, has appointed Heidi Goldstein to the position of principal. Goldstein joined the firm in 2006 and served most recently as a vice president.
In recent years, we’ve seen it in publishing and venture capital among other things: individuals rising in power, as institutions seemingly become less relevant. The trend will only grow more exaggerated over time, argues Marina Gorbis, executive director of the Palo Alto-based research group Institute for the Future.
Jeff Bezos invests in Business Insider, outgoing HP chairman Ray Lane takes a beating, and a new study shows directors face little accountability, even when a company's performance is lousy. And so much more!
Apple's costly plans for its futuristic new headquarters are becoming a giant public relations nightmare, modafinil is apparently Wall Street's new drug of choice, and bad news for hedge fund SAC? And so much more!