Brazil: The New Home of...
Brazil is sort of a strange country to throw into the “emerging market” category. It’s not a particularly young country like India or Israel, nor is it a country like China or Russia that embraced capitalism fairly recently. Brazil is as old as the US and has had a decently built...
A Fix for Discriminatio...
Women, Hispanics and blacks have always been underrepresented in the ranks of the Valley’s tech companies. A new analysis by the Mercury News shows that from 2000 to 2008, the proportion of women tech workers in Silicon Valley dropped from 25.3% to 23.8%, and that the national... A Fix for Discriminatio...
Women, Hispanics and blacks have always been underrepresented in the ranks of the Valley’s tech companies. A new analysis by the Mercury News shows that from 2000 to 2008, the proportion of women tech workers in Silicon Valley dropped from 25.3% to 23.8%, and that the national...
Google Countersues Hair...
In August 2009, home haircutting system maker Flowbee filed suit against Google in federal district court in Corpus Christi, Texas. The company was the umpteenth to take the Mountain View company to court for selling sponsored search ads to competitors under its trademarked keyword,...
Think Your Start-up Is ...
Pepperdine has a new study out that attempts to shed some light on the clubby, shadowy world of private finance. Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. Not a big shock, but things don’t look pretty,...
PayPal, Venrock Incubat...
We got a tip recently about a startup called BillFloat , which sports a rather limited website with nothing but a logo and a call for fresh engineers. The intriguing thing about BillFloat, however, was this sentence on the placeholder website: “We are a PayPal and Venrock backed...
Where Did VCs Go Wrong ...
Editor’s note : The following guest post was written by Ashkan Karbasfrooshan , founder and CEO of WatchMojo .You can also read his series on the state of Online video (Parts I, II, III , and IV ) video. Read more here: Where Did VCs Go Wrong In Online...
A Massive $75 Million R...
Streaming video site Ustream has just pulled in a massive new round of funding: $75 million. This second round was led by SoftBank , a Japanese telecom giant Read the original: A Massive $75 Million Round Streams Into Ustream. And More Is On The...