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Serial entrepreneur Jason Calacanis is raising $10 million for a new venture fund to back startups coming out of his Launch conferences.
Tumblr's longtime creative director quits.Two years after Twitter acquired Tweetdeck, its founder, Ian Dodsworth, is also out the door. And fantastic color footage of NYC in 1939! And so much more!
Behind the "Internet of Everything" is Android, and it's everywhere. Why this is Elon Musk's moment. Wall Street turns to "boot camps" to bring new workers up to speed. And so much more!
Facebook's acquisition talks with Waze are reportedly over, Tim Cook and the art of saying nothing, and one Yale student to Tom Friedman: Actually, we really are better than other people. And so much more!
U.S. authorities have shut down a digital money system suspected of cyber-criminal links. Lawrence Summers could replace Ben Bernanke as Federal Reserve Chairman. And is Twitter becoming too dominant when it comes to news distribution? And so much more!
Socialbakers, a four-year-old, Prague-based analytics platform company that helps brands measure and compare the success of their social media campaigns, has hired James Bodha as CFO. Bodha joins Socialbakers from Myriad Group AG, a leading provider of global social messaging services listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange.
The fabulous life of Instagram's "Mr. Wall Street." Oh, no, another techie reality show on Bravo. And Yahoo makes another bid to buy a property: this time it's Hulu. And so much more!
Lyft lifts a stunning $60 million from Andreessen Horowitz, Yahoo makes its second acquisition this week, and for young analysts, it's college to investment bank to buyout fund, in just a few months. And so much more!
It's no surprise to anyone who follows the industry that founders are often elbowed aside. Sometimes, they're ousted because a startup isn't performing. Sometimes, investors think a new CEO could do better. Lesser known is that CEOs are sometimes shown the door because a startup’s senior managers threaten to hightail it otherwise.
Inside Google's secret lab; Twitter is beefing up security following a spate of attacks on prominent media outlets; and Tesla's newest offering reaps more than $1 billion. And so much more!
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