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Shafqat Islam, Co-Founder, CEO of NewsCred, explains how his startup business has been able to convince major brand companies they need to pay for the news.
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Shafqat Islam, Co-Founder, CEO of NewsCred, explains how his startup business has been able to convince major brand companies they need to pay for the news.
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 21- John Doerr, a venture capitalist known for early investments in companies such as Amazon and Google, has become the latest victim of the hacker known as Guccifer, according to the Smoking Gun website.
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 21- John Doerr, a venture capitalist known for early investments in companies such as Amazon and Google, has become the latest victim of the hacker known as Guccifer, according to the Smoking Gun website.
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 21- Accel, the venture capital firm behind social network Facebook, has closed a new $475 million fund, the firm said on Thursday. Accel London IV will invest in early- and growth-stage companies in the consumer Internet, big data, cloud, software and mobile sectors, the firm said.
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Josh Reich, Simple CEO and co-founder, explains how his company makes banking easier for customers.
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Young entrepreneurs have no shortage of resources at their disposal that give them a leg up on an older generation of competition.
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BRUSSELS, March 12- The European Parliament voted on Tuesday to change EU rules to make it easier for venture capital funds to invest in start-up businesses across the 27- country bloc.
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 8- Three executive assistants are suing venture firm CMEA and one of its former partners for harassment and retaliation, marking the third lawsuit in less than a year alleging unfair treatment of women in Silicon Valley's clubby world of venture capital.
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 8- Three executive assistants are suing venture firm CMEA and one of its former partners for harassment and retaliation, marking the third lawsuit in less than a year alleging unfair treatment of women in Silicon Valley's clubby world of venture capital.
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 7- Venture capital firm Matrix Partners said it had hired 28- year-old Jared Fliesler, an executive at the mobile-payments company Square, as general partner. He had formerly worked at Google as director of product management after Google acquired application maker Slide, his previous employer.
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 7- Venture capital firm Matrix Partners said it had hired 28- year-old Jared Fliesler, an executive at the mobile-payments company Square, as general partner. He had formerly worked at Google as director of product management after Google acquired application maker Slide, his previous employer.
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*Latin America buyouts reached $7.9 billion last year. SAO PAULO, March 5- Buyout and venture capital firms spent $7.9 billion purchasing companies in Latin America last year after heavy fundraising during the prior two years gave them enough capital to buy targets in the consumer, financial and education sectors, according to a private-equity association.
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Information overload is a fact of modern life, and you can curse technology — or you can see if there's an app for that.
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Peer-to-peer lender Prosper hopes to attract more investors, seeking yield. But is the emerging lending platform too risky?
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 4- The University of California must make public the closely guarded performance of some top-tier venture capital funds in which it has invested a portion of its $10.65 billion endowment, a judge said on Monday. No information on the funds, managed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield& Byers and Sequoia Capital, will come out immediately.
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David Richards, CEO at Wandisco, tells CNBC that the British venture capital industry has too many people from an accounting background and not enough people from a technology background.
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John Backus, New Atlantic Ventures; and Brad Weinberg, Blueprint, discuss the pullback in venture capital last year, and take a look at what's ahead for 2013.
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*SurveyMonkey raising $800 mln in equity and debt financing. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 17- Online company SurveyMonkey said it aims to raise $800 million in a late-stage venture capital financing, one of the largest such deals in the Internet sector that underscores how many Silicon Valley firms are no longer in a rush to go public.
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SAN FRANCISCO/ LOS ANGELES, Jan 16- In the spring of last year, John Doerr received some bad news: Miasole, the solar-panel maker backed by his famed venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield& Byers, was on the verge of bankruptcy. If Miasole went under, it would be a dramatic collapse for a once-promising startup that in its heyday had been valued at $1 billion.
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*Online shopping booms in Turkey. ISTANBUL, Jan 16- Swiss venture capitalist Klaus Hommels, an early-stage investor in Skype and Facebook, hadn't thought much about Turkey or its e-commerce potential when he met Sina Afra in a Burger King at a Berlin airport in 2008.. "Turkey is a very young and viral nation," he said.