Connie Loizos
Can a snooping scandal break Wall Street’s Bloomberg addiction? Bill Gates on Steve Jobs: We grew up together. And New York's attorney general asks Google, Apple and Samsung why, exactly, they can't render stolen phones inoperable. And so much more!
Bay City Capital, a San Franciso-based venture capital firm that focuses on life sciences companies, has hired David Beier as a managing director. Beier was a senior officer for nearly a decade at each of the two largest biotechnology firms, Genentech and Amgen, where he was most recently a senior VP responsible for global government affairs.
Early-stage IT and healthcare investor Grotech Ventures announces it has raised a new $225 million fund after a 20-month process.
Roughly one-third of air passengers neglect to turn off their electronic devices during take-off or landing. By accident, really! The new proposal by Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management for Dell presents some new complications. And so much more!
Amazon is developing a smartphone with a 3-D screen, a former Intel employee is suing over a kick in the pants, and hedge fund manager Phil Falcone just received a two-year ban from the SEC. And so much more!
Bunker Hill Capital, a Boston-based private equity firm, has acquired Dyno Holdco, LLC, the exclusive licensee of the Singer brand for sewing accessories and a large producer and marketer of holiday decorative home products. Dyno, based in Pompano Beach, Fla., was previously owned by TG Capital Corp. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey has been filming himself (and his toothpick) all over San Francisco, Groupon just beat Wall Street's revenue expectations in the first quarter, former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling could be out of jail by 2017, and so much more!
Balderton Capital, one of Europe's largest venture capital groups, is in the market for a fifth fund, according to a just-published SEC Form D.
A call for kill switches to deactivate stolen phones, David Einhorn buys more Apple, and can John Doerr possibly reclaim the venture capital throne? And so much more!
ePrize, a Pleasant Ridge, Michigan-based company that specializes in mobile, social and Web campaigns and was acquired last summer by the private equity firm Catterton Partners, is itself announcing an acquisition. Under terms that aren't being disclosed, ePrize has purchased Promotions.com, a company that offers brand contents and other "consumer-activation tactic." The move marks ePrize's fifth acquisition is less than two years.