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Lighter Capital, a Seattle-based online lending company, has appointed Jeff Seely to its board of directors. Seely is a trustee on the Washington State Investment Board and a member of the board of directors of Concur, a publicly traded, Redmond, Wash.-based company that's focused on employee spend management software.
Ireland to everyone: Hey, don't blame us for Apple's low tax rate. Vine is the latest social media concern for employers. San Francisco gets the Super Bowl in 2016. And so much more!
Since Yahoo announced it was acquiring Tumblr, venture capitalists have probably pondered how the deal impacts the value of their stakes in still-private social networks like Pinterest. The early consensus is that it's good news, indeed.
Will Tumblr "screw up" Yahoo? GE Ventures officially opens for business in Silicon Valley. Seamless and Grubhub have merged into an online food-ordering hydra. And so much more!
Is Yahoo acquiring Tumblr? We may find out on Monday. The IPOs of business software companies Tableau Software and Marketo both soared today. And SAC says it's done cooperating with federal securities regulators. And so much more!
A first close can be a very happy milestone for those on the fundraising trail. Unfortunately, the first close is also becoming more elusive, according to new findings from the private equity data provider Preqin.
A new comedy series about Silicon Valley written by Mike Judge was just picked up by HBO. It's looking likely that Groupon won't have a new CEO until next year. And 23andMe gene analysis shows this week's NVCA conference attendees have a higher-than-average chance of going bald. And so much more!
Demi Moore is after a piece of Ashton Kutcher's venture capital fund, Google+ gets more Pinteresting, and a tech M&A machine hits the brakes. And so much more!
A new survey by IPO advisory Class V Group finds that most fund managers believe that smaller, non-bookrunner banks are being underpaid, hampering how much small-cap research gets produced and hindering the number of IPOs by small companies.
Larry Page explains why he lost his voice. The payments startup Square unveils Stand, a countertop point-of-sale system. And does an MBA make you happy? And so much more!