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Venture money finds India, China tech
News Venture capital firms stepped up investments in India-based companies by 120 percent in second quarter, finds new report. China's hot with venture firms, too.
Tags: Venture capital, Investments, India, Investment, Advertisement, venture-capital company, Internet usage, venture-capital fund, China, Silicon Valley
Asian tech startups still worthwhile investments
News Returns may not be as good or take longer to realize, but venture capital firms investing in region are still focused on wringing monetary ROI out of technology.
Tags: Investments, Angel investing, Business, Patent, Phone, Asia, Investment, IPO, venture capital, venture-capital company
Investors still keen on Asian tech startups
News Region's tech sector remains a hot favorite for investors who, wary of banking funds, opt to park their monies instead in venture capital companies.
Tags: Investments, Angel investing, Mobile applications, Business applications, Intel Corp., mobile communication, Investor, Singapore, Malaysia, venture capital
Andreesen explains his move to venture capital
News Netscape executive-turned-venture capitalist addressed the crowd at Fortune's Brainstorm: Tech conference on why he decided to become a money man.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, IBM Corp., Google Inc., Medical Device, venture capital, CEO, career, venture-capital fund, entrepreneur, revenue
Khosla Ventures piles up US$1B for green tech
News Vinod Khosla is seeking out "science experiments" that address environmental problems and nabs former Facebook CFO and former CMEA investor to run two venture funds.
Tags: Green IT, Clean Technology, Manufacturing, Investor, venture capital, venture-capital fund, finance, biofuel, green technology, biotechnology
Yahoo stock rises on new acquisition report
News A second report indicates that AOL's former CEO, Jonathan Miller, is interested in buying some or all of Yahoo.
Tags: Web sites, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., America Online Inc., Stock, venture capital, venture-capital fund, Velocity, Wall Street Journal, private equity
Motorola slumps in China
News How can the U.S. company be No. 1 again in the world's biggest cell-phone market? It will need a sharp Razr follow-up to beat Nokia and Samsung for starters.
Tags: Cellular phones, Mobile/Wireless, Motorola Inc., India, venture capital, China Telecom, venture-capital fund, China, spokesman, Motorola Razr
More cash for Facebook?
News Facebook-investor Accel Partners is pumping over US$1 bilion in two new funds; speculation is US$480 million of that may go to the social networking site.
Tags: Domain names, Web sites, Investments, Angel investing, BitTorrent, CFO, Accel Partners, social networking, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook
Israel's high-tech IPO market falls flat in '08
News The country didn't see a single high-tech initial public offering last year, a first since 2003.
Tags: Mergers, IPO, high-technology company, Israel, technology company, CEO, leader, valuation, venture-capital fund, merger
New funding source for Malaysian startups
News Worth US$1.4 million, the Technopreneur Venture Management is aimed at fixing gap between pre-seed and seed funding, says its administrators.
Tags: Funding, Angel investing, Investments, Information And Communication Technology, Malaysia, fund company, mIRC, venture capital, MICP, Dealflow
Five tips for startups to secure capital funds
News update Despite downturn, Asia's promising startups can look forward to funding, but they need to do their homework before knocking on investors' doors, say experts.
Tags: Funding, Venture capital, Angel investing, Investments, Business, Chip, Investor, Asia-Pacific, life science, Israel
Salesforce fund offers boost to developers
News Company's US$25 million fund can open new markets for developers, but they'll need to prepare for the added workload.
Tags: Software
Can innovation come in SMB packages?
Blogs I'm in Kuala Lumpur for a couple of days this week, serving as moderator for a panel discussion at the APEC SME Technolo...
Microsoft, Google duke it out for China
Insight China is quickly proving to be the next great Internet marketplace, and both Microsoft and Google are prepared to fight for it, starting in American courtrooms.
Tags: Software engineering/development, Personal applications
Green-tech venture funding jumps nearly 40 percent in 2008
News Solar captures lion's share of green-tech investments worldwide, bolstered by massive funding of thin-film solar companies, according to Cleantech Group report.
Tags: Green IT, Venture capital, Investments, Clean Technology, Venture Investment, Investment, Biodiesel, biology, electric vehicle, Indian Company
