Kara Swisher in Commerce on April 2 at 10:56 am PT
The mobile app-heavy service allows anyone with stuff, including boutique merchants with quirky stuff to move, to quickly snap photos of items, price them and then — presumably — sell.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on February 29 at 11:58 am PT
The rumors are true. But, boy, were they ever off on the numbers.
Liz Gannes in Social on February 23 at 9:21 pm PT
The latest political donation in this election year, from Sean Parker, Ashton Kutcher and other celebrity tech investors, is a $750,000 convertible note to political social network Votizen.
To many investors, visionary entrepreneurs come off as naïve or worse — isn’t it safer/easier/more profitable to create a(nother) social network for cat fanciers than to try to cure cancer, defeat terrorism, or organize the world’s information?
– Bruce Gibney, in a post on the Founders Fund Web site entitled “What Happened to the Future?”
Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 6, 2011 at 11:48 am PT
The social search start-up has hired Duncan Greatwood, the founder who sold PostPath to Cisco Sytems in 2008.
Kara Swisher in Social on December 4, 2011 at 9:54 pm PT
Let’s put this one in the “done” column, shall we?
News Byte
Liz Gannes in News on October 13, 2011 at 5:00 am PT
Knewton, the educational content “remixer” that adapts its courses to each student (you could say it learns about the learner), has raised $33 million led by Founders Fund and Pearson. The three-year-old company’s new funding is particularly notable for its large size and because Founders Fund Managing Partner Peter Thiel is
an outspoken critic of traditional higher education.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on September 8, 2011 at 3:16 pm PT
An SEC filing shows the secretive data analytics firm has been busy raising money. Again.
Kara Swisher in News on September 8, 2011 at 6:15 am PT
Despite the bad economy, turbulent markets and lackluster venture returns of late, limited partners looking for an investment edge seem to still be adding more dough to the VC kitty.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on August 22, 2011 at 5:00 am PT
Yammer, once known as a “Twitter for Work,” is transforming itself a key player in the fast-growing business of making enterprise applications more social.
