Connie Loizos
Venture capitalist Greg Gretsch believes the social media company Strava is poised to become the “number one sports brand of the 21st century.” The question is whether Gretsch has landed on the ground floor of one of America’s next big companies or gotten way ahead of himself.
EA CEO John Riccitiello has stepped down, two Connecticut pension funds are selling off investments to meet their cash flow needs, and meet the "Winklevoss" of Snapchat! And so much more!
Car service Uber gets a new kind of unwanted publicity, Warren Buffett pays Bill Gates $1,800, China's Solyndra just imploded, too, and so much more!
Ricky Gervais has agreed to create content exclusively for YouTube, there's big tension in how Larry Page is running Google, and the Justice Department has charged one of Reuters' own with conspiring with the hacker group Anonymous. And so much more!
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL) has appointed Robert O'Brien to lead its global real estate group. O'Brien, already a vice chairman with Deloitte in the U.S., will also continue as the U.S. real estate leader.
After their purchase of BioClinica, a clinical train management services firm, and the medical imaging and cardiac safety services company CoreLab Partners, middle market firms JLL Partners and Ampersand Capital Partners have combined the two companies under the name BioClinica.
Most venture firms specialize in sectors. But a low-flying venture capital firm is beginning to approach LPs and entrepreneurs with a simple new kind of pitch: its partners can help startups obtain what they most need -- customers.
While in the U.S., the picture for women in the field of private equity remains largely unchanged, a decidedly different picture is emerging in Asia, says Preqin, the PE data provider.
Google switches things around at the top, Twitter is reportedly preparing a music discovery app that could be released in weeks, Fisker founder Henrik Fisker says see ya later, alligators, and so much more!
Heart to Heart Hospice, a 10-year-old, Plano, Texas-based hospice care company, has received a minority investment from Boston-based Summit Partners, the growth equity firm. Terms of the deal aren't being disclosed.