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Four Reasons Why Andreessen Horowitz Is Investing $10 Million in Belly

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 8 at 4:30 am PT

Andreessen Horowitz has invested $10 million in Belly, a Chicago-based company that is building a loyalty network for retailers that will replace punch cards with mobile rewards.

Got DNA? Biocomputing Start-Up DNAnexus Lands $15M From Google Ventures and TPG

Arik Hesseldahl in News on October 12, 2011 at 5:05 am PT

The computational biology start-up aims to create a huge database of DNA information for researchers and scientists.

Now What?  The Post-Jobs Era in Tech.

Kara Swisher in News on October 6, 2011 at 6:17 am PT

Can anyone in Silicon Valley fill the outsized shoes of Steve Jobs? Not likely.

Google’s Andy Rubin Gives a Flash of Tablet Future

Ina Fried in Mobile on December 6, 2010 at 6:33 pm PT

Taking the stage to kick off D: Dive into Mobile, Google’s Andy Rubin gave a glimpse of Android 3.0 running on a prototype Motorola tablet. That was the icing on a pastry-laden talk filled with Gingerbread, Froyo and Honeycomb.

In Case You Missed It: The CNBC Interview With Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz (Yes, She Disses Facebook, and No Trinket-Calling!)

Kara Swisher in News on March 5, 2010 at 2:45 am PT

Earlier this week, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz was all over the place talking up the company on the occasion of its 15th birthday. Here’s a video of a longish interview she did with CBNC where she cracks wise a lot, but says little. My favorite part: When the interviewer oddly asks if Yahoo is a trinket and Bartz pipes up that it is a bracelet!

23andMe Co-Founder Linda Avey Leaves Personal Genetics Start-Up to Focus on Alzheimer's Research

Kara Swisher in News on September 4, 2009 at 1:49 pm PT

Linda Avey, co-founder of 23andMe, the personal genetics start-up, will be leaving to start a foundation related to Alzheimer’s disease. With Anne Wojcicki, she founded the high-profile company–whose Series A investors include Genentech, Google, and New Enterprise Associates, as well as Wojcicki’s husband, Google co-founder Sergey Brin–in 2006. Avey noted in an email to staff, which is posted in its entirety below: “I also recognize that the company has reached a critical point in its growth where new leadership can take it to the successful heights we all think it can achieve.”

DOJ Fishing Expedition Spotted Off Silicon Valley

John Paczkowski in News on June 3, 2009 at 6:36 am PT

When Assistant Attorney General Christine Varney said she plans to take a more aggressive approach to antitrust enforcement, she wasn’t kidding. Under her leadership the US Department of Justice has opened an investigation into the recruiting practices at Google, Apple, Yahoo, and Genentech, among others.

99.9% Man, .01% Animal … TOTAL TERROR!

John Paczkowski in News on May 21, 2008 at 4:00 pm PT

England, for one, welcomes our new humanimal overlords … British lawmakers voted Monday to allow the use of human-animal embryos for research after an attempt to ban the technique was overwhelmingly rejected.