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BACKING BIG BROTHER CHINESE FACIAL RECOGNITION FIRMS APPEAL TO FUNDS
Its photography enhancement technology is also used by almost all of China's major smartphone manufacturers including Huawei Technologies, Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi... READ MORE›
INVESTMENTS BY SOFTBANK'S HUGE VISION FUND COULD SHAKE UP TECH WORLD
SoftBank Group Corp. is sending tremors through the tech world with a massive new venture capital fund for investing in startups that is expected to domina... READ MORE›
CHINA'S RAGING FINTECH BOOM ON VERGE OF MINTING TWO BILLIONAIRES
China's booming fintech industry is on the verge of adding two new billionaires to the world's most powerful wealth engine... READ MORE›
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OH SNAP! SILICON VALLEY SCHOOL MAKES $24M OFF OF INVESTMENT
St. Francis High School launched the fund in 1990 at the urging of two of the many venture capitalists with children attending the school... READ MORE›
THESE DIGITAL TOKENS ARE MAKING BITCOIN'S HUGE RALLY LOOK TAME
Tech startups are increasingly selling coins that can be used on their projects instead of resorting to traditional financing methods such as venture capital... READ MORE›
AS TWITTER INTRODUCES PERISCOPE TECH TITANS BET ON LIVE STREAMING VIDEO
On Thursday, during a fire at an apartment building in the East Village, numerous Twitter users live-streamed the event with Periscope and Meerkat... READ MORE›
AFTER TRUMP: TECHIES 'BOOMERANG' TO MIDWEST TO SPREAD WEALTH
Also boomeranging back are Midwesterners who moved to Silicon Valley for that big tech job... READ MORE›
PETER THIEL'S POLITICS BECOME A DEAL-KILLER IN SILICON VALLEY
The divisions over Peter Thiel and his support for Donald Trump are deepening in Silicon Valley... READ MORE›
THE TECH BUBBLE DIDN'T BURST THIS YEAR. JUST WAIT
That pitch was enough to get going, says Roelof Botha, a partner with VC firm Sequoia Capital... READ MORE›
IN ELLEN PAOS SUIT VS KLEINER PERKINS WORLD OF VENTURE CAPITAL IS UNDER MICROSCOPE
Doerr agreed that the percentage of female venture capitalists was pathetic... READ MORE›
SILICON VALLEY VCS ARE GROWING WARY OF ON-DEMAND DELIVERY
Several prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalists said in interviews that they now believe many delivery startups could fail, leaving investors with big losses... READ MORE›
SEXUAL HARASSMENT SCANDAL SHAKES INSULAR, INFLUENTIAL VENTURE CAPITAL WORLD
Venture capital firms have been called on to make sweepingA changes in the demographics of their investing partners and of the company founders they back... READ MORE›
SEXUAL HARASSMENT SCANDAL SHAKES INSULAR, INFLUENTIAL VENTURE CAPITAL WORLD
Venture capital firms have been called on to make sweepingA changes in the demographics of their investing partners and of the company founders they back... READ MORE›
BIG INVESTORS ARE FINDING RIPE START-UP TARGETS IN EUROPE
Now the German venture capitalist is doubling-down on Europe's tech sector... READ MORE›
BINARY IS SHUTTING DOWN ITS LATEST FUND AFTER CO-FOUNDER MISCONDUCT
Binary had raised about 175 million, but very little of that money had been invested, this person said... READ MORE›
UBER'S NEW CEO MAY GET AT LEAST $200 MILLION TO EXIT EXPEDIA
Uber Technologies Inc.'s new chief executive officer likely comes with a price tag in the neighborhood of 200 million... READ MORE›
'THIRD WAVE' OF INTERNET WILL HELP MIDDLE AMERICA BUSINESS
Q Venture capital funding in the Midwest remains the same in the low single digits... READ MORE›
SILICON VALLEY FINDS TRUMPS DISRUPTION UNWELCOME
Worst of all, Mr. Trump is revealing Silicon Valley's vulnerability... READ MORE›
U.S. CONSUMERS BUCK INVESTORS' RUSH TO SELF-DRIVING CARS
Consumers, meanwhile, remain concerned about aspects of self-driving technology and overwhelmingly still want the ability to manually control a self-driving vehicle, the study said... READ MORE›
HSBC SHARES GAIN AFTER BANK NAMES AIA'S TUCKER AS CHAIRMAN
HSBC Holdings Plc named insurance executive Mark Tucker to succeed Douglas Flint as chairman, enlisting an outsider to oversee Europe's biggest bank as it overhauls management... READ MORE›
AT TOP VC FIRMS, MORE WOMEN PARTNERS DOESN'T MEAN MORE WOMEN FUNDED
Some, especially younger women venture capitalists, say they believe strongly that their gender could help them find more valuable companies... READ MORE›
GOOGLE IN TALKS TO BUY INDIAN STARTUP INMOBI
Google in talks to buy Indian startup InMobi source... READ MORE›
BOMBARDIER'S PIERRE BEAUDOIN TO QUIT EXECUTIVE ROLE
Beaudoin will step down from the position as of June but remain non-executive chairman of the board of directors, Bombardier said... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIAS TELSTRA FAILING TO PLUG EARNINGS HOLE WITH MYRIAD OF INVESTMENTS
In two tranches, Telstra spent 330 million buying 98 percent of Ooyala between 2012 and 2014... READ MORE›
MICROSOFT TO BUY ISRAELI CYBER SECURITY FIRM ADALLOM
TEL AVIV Microsoft Corp plans to acquire Israeli cyber security company Adallom for 320 million the Calcalist financial newspaper reported on Monday... READ MORE›
VENTURE CAPITAL CASH SURFERS MAY SEE WAVES RECEDE IN MARKET TURMOIL
In June it sealed a 1.5 billion deal that propelled its valuation to 25.5 billion, the third-largest among venture capital-backed companies worldwide... READ MORE›
FIVE CEOS 40 OR YOUNGER HAVING A ROUGH YEAR
Elizabeth Holmes, 32 Founder, Theranos Photographer Brendan McDermid Reuters Her blood-testing company in Palo Alto imploded after it turned out that the tests didn't work... READ MORE›
TRUMP'S VAGUE PLANS COULD REVERBERATE IN TECH
SAN FRANCISCO -- In his improbable race to the presidency, President-elect Donald Trump treated tech as he did much of the electorate... READ MORE›
SILICON VALLEY'S CASH REMAINS COLD TO WHITE HOUSE HOPEFULS
He and the super-PAC backing him raised a combined 1.78 million from the tech community, according to Crowdpac... READ MORE›
UBER FOUNDER TRAVIS KALANICK RESIGNS AS CEO
Earlier Tuesday, five of Uber's major investors demanded that the chief executive resign immediately... READ MORE›
MARC SEAMAN TO BE NAMED AS NEW NCC CHAIR
From Shaw Centre website Marc Seaman is expected to be named to the job vacated by Russ Mills at the end of April... READ MORE›
SILICON VALLEY MOCKS TRUMP OVER HIS TECH BUBBLE WARNING
So Trump's declaration, in the eyes of Silicon Valley's entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, was nothing new... READ MORE›
MESSAGEBIRD IN BIGGEST EARLY-STAGE FUNDING FOR EUROPEAN SOFTWARE FIRM
Robert Vis, founder and chief executive of messaging application software maker MessageBird, is pictured at the company's headquarters in Amsterdam, Netherlands September 29, 2017... READ MORE›