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Deborah Gage, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 1, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
When Andreessen Horowitz Co-Founder Ben Horowitz took the stage at the Web 2.0 Expo Wednesday in San Francisco, he was expected to tell audience members which technologies they should invest in and which ones they should build.
Kara Swisher in News on March 29, 2011 at 10:37 am PT
Of all the many job openings in tech, perhaps the most interesting to watch will be who Groupon selects as its next COO, after the recent announcement that it was parting ways with President and COO Rob Solomon.
Requirements for running the Chicago-based social buying site: epic cat-wrangling of thousands of employees in far-flung locations; deep marketing and advertising prowess; high-level technology, product, mobile and e-commerce chops; and international experience. Also, please stand in the shadows.
Kara Swisher in News on March 10, 2011 at 11:58 am PT
Steve Case and Ted Leonsis are bringing their old AOL band back together once again, this time by raising a $400 million growth equity fund.
The pair, the legendary top execs who rocketed AOL to the top of the Internet business in the 1990s, are now making the rounds in New York and elsewhere to pitch their new investment vehicle, sources said.
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Russell Garland, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 18, 2011 at 4:32 pm PT
The social media wave is being followed by a big data tsunami.
Ok, the imagery is getting a little outlandish, but the flood of information that must be stored and analyzed is generating excitement, especially in Boston, where many in the tech world worry that they were at the beach while Silicon Valley and New York enjoyed the fruits of the Web 2.0 revolution.
Kara Swisher in News on February 10, 2011 at 10:34 am PT
Facebook is exploring permitting a tender offer up to $1 billion of its employee shares, after being approached by a number of big institutional investors about investing in the company, according to sources close to the situation.
The new approximate valuation? An eye-popping $60 billion, sources said, which is a significant increase to a recent $1.5 billion investment round led by Goldman Sachs that had pegged the social networking behemoth at a $50 billion valuation.
Kara Swisher in News on January 18, 2011 at 2:50 pm PT
Goldman Sachs seems to have borked the $1.5 billion deal to sell Facebook shares to its rich U.S. clients, because so much information about it leaked everywhere.
That’s right! The loquacious Wall Street bankers are back to take Web 2.0’s social stars public and, of course, are oversharing already.
Kara Swisher in News on December 22, 2010 at 12:28 am PT
Here is a must-see video by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg from a recent TED talk about the challenges faced by women in the workplace.
Don’t miss it.
Kara Swisher in News on December 21, 2010 at 2:44 pm PT
Simply put: The five top Web 2.0 superstar companies have no women on their board of directors.
As in
zero.
Kara Swisher in News on December 15, 2010 at 12:15 pm PT
Twitter has completed its latest round of funding–$200 million at a $3.7 billion valuation–with Kleiner Perkins as the lead investor.
The San Francisco microblogging service is also adding two new board members: Flipboard’s Mike McCue and former DoubleClick head David Rosenblatt.
John Paczkowski in News on December 7, 2010 at 2:01 pm PT
If Dodgeball was, as founder Dennis Crowley claims, the perfect storm of bad timing, then his latest venture, Foursquare, is a sunny day. In the video after the jump, Crowley talks about the mechanics of merchant relationships, valuations and frothiness, and the difference between Dodgeball and Foursquare.