Venture
4040 Stories
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
Research: Twitter has yet to grow into valuation
News Company is worth significantly less than US$1 billion, one company surmises. That's in part because the effectiveness of its possible business plan is still up in the air.
Tags: Web 2.0, Internet advertising, Twitter Inc., revenue strategy, advertisement, revenue, Web 2.0, T. Rowe Price Group Inc., API, research company
Orange, T-Mobile merge to create UK's largest carrier
News Decreasing revenue and heavy competition trigger U.K.'s biggest mobile merger, which will give the new joint venture lead position in United Kingdom with more than 28 million customers.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Carrier, Britain, 3G Network, T-Mobile
Ericsson, STMicro form semiconductor joint venture
News The two manufacturers have merged their mobile semiconductor and platforms businesses.
Tags: Mobile processors, Processors, Mobile platforms/communications, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Mobile, Venture, Semiconductor, intellectual property, software, marketing
Cisco, EMC, and VMware make alliance official
News The three companies are forming a joint venture that will provide unified data center products to big corporate customers.
Tags: Data centers, Data Management, networking equipment, Virtualization, partnership, Cisco Systems Inc., EMC Corp., Storage, VMware Inc., Wall Street Journal
Wary green-tech venture investors shift gears
News Applying the venture capital model of IT onto energy isn't working, which is something many clean-tech venture capitalists will learn the hard way, say experts.
Tags: Green IT, Venture capital, Clean Technology, Department Of Energy, BP Plc, Venrock, Information Technology, Green IT, Investor, alternative energy
Yahoo veteran named to MySpace CTO spot
News Alex Maghen, who previously served as the head of technology for MySpace Music, has tough road ahead of him, as News Corp.-owned site has fallen from favor in Silicon Valley.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Web 2.0, MySpace, entertainment, chief technology officer, Facebook, CTO, exec, News Corp., Web 2.0
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
The curious case of Sun Microsystems Philippines
Blogs In more ways than one, Sun Microsystems Philippines (SunPhil) is an "anomaly" among the large IT companies in the countr...
Twitter confirms new round of funding
News What the company isn't commenting on: the exact amount of the round--or whether it actually values Twitter at $1 billion, as reported earlier.
Tags: Web 2.0, Business Strategies & Functions, T. Rowe Price Group Inc., marketing, customer service, Wall Street Journal, blog, team, Web 2.0
Ciena buys Nortel's Metro Ethernet business
News Nortel Networks will sell another piece of its business for US$769 million as part of its bankruptcy proceedings, which require it to dismantle its business.
Tags: Network infrastructure, Ethernet, Nokia Corp., Nortel Networks Corp., CIENA Communications, network, Siemens AG, Wireless, Bankruptcy, Metro Ethernet
Aussie chief of Nokia-Siemens to leave
News Australian chief of Nokia Siemens Networks, Simon Beresford-Wylie, will leave by November.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Siemens AG, Asia-Pacific, Telstra Corp., networking company, mobile company, network infrastructure, mobile operator
GE inks deal for 'cleaner coal' in China
News Timed with Obama's visit, General Electric announces deals in China around high-speed rail, hybrid locomotives, and coal gasification plants with underground carbon storage.
Tags: Green IT, Department Of Energy, Gasification, U.S., Green IT, General Electric Co., Storage, electric vehicle, memorandum of understanding, carbon dioxide
Joost: It could have been a contender, or not
News It was supposed to kill YouTube, and now it's finally dead, as some of its assets get sold off in what's likely a total fire sale.
Tags: Web 2.0, Video, Joost, CEO, Web 2.0, P2P, venture capital, YouTube Inc., online video, File-sharing
Yahoo!7 buys totaltravel.com
News Microsoft and Seven Network's joint venture Yahoo!7 has just acquired totaltravel.com to gain a foothold in the online travel market.
Tags: Web 2.0, E-commerce, Site, TV, Spokesperson, Accommodation, Australia, acquisition, Web 2.0, E-commerce
