Tarana Wireless, a Santa Clara, Calif-based company producing small cell backhaul products, has some new advisors, including Arun Sarin, former CEO of Vodafone Group and Airtouch; Harold Braun, former CEO of Aviat Networks and Siemens Networks; and Eric Brewer, long a computer science professor at UC Berkeley, as well as a Google Fellow.
4 min read · 07 February 2013
Hedge fund mogul David Einhorn is suing Apple to block its plan to eliminate preferred shares, a new report says Silicon Valley job growth has reached dot.com boom levels,Facebook is buying an ad stack to rival Google -- with Microsoft's help, and so much more!
1 min read · 07 February 2013
The current, accepted wisdom is that those who understand Big Data will rule the roost in the future. There’s just one problem: there aren't nearly enough "data scientists" to go around.
5 min read · 07 February 2013
Have you noticed? Many venture capitalists -- a group not known for their creativity -- have quietly begun to revamp their uninspired Websites.
4 min read · 06 February 2013
Six years ago, Jerusalem Venture Partners created a digital media incubator, and the experiment has gone so well that this May, the 20-year-old firm -- among Israel’s best known and most successful venture outfits -- is opening its second incubator. Its focus: cybersecurity.
4 min read · 06 February 2013
Cloudant, a cloud-hosted database provider based in boston, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Samsung Venture Investment Corp. Cloudant was founded in 2008 by three MIT physicists; it has previously raised $4 million, including from Y Combinator and In-Q-Tel.
2 min read · 06 February 2013
The HP board studies whether to break up the company, Pinterest noodles a round at a valuation of, gulp, $2.5 billion, and financial models are again at the heart of supposed wrongdoings. (This time, it's the S&P's programs.) And so much more!
1 min read · 05 February 2013
NanoViricides, a West Haven, Conn.-based nanobio-pharmaceutical company that is developing anti-viral drugs, says it has raised $6 million in the form of unsecured convertible debt from three unnamed family offices and one unnamed charitable foundation.
6 min read · 05 February 2013
PhishLabs, a Charleston, S.C.-based cyber security startup, has closed on $1.2 million in Series A funding from a syndicate that includes Tony Prince, former CEO of managed security services comapny LURHQ, acquired by SecureWorks in 2006.
3 min read · 05 February 2013
Delta Partners Capital, an advisory and investment firm based in Dubai, has held a first, $100 million, close of its Delta Partners Emerging Markets TMT Growth Fund II. Investors include the IFC (World Bank Group), NTT DOCOMO, and a number of family offices from Europe and the Middle East. The fund has a target of $350 million and a hard cap of $500 million.
2 min read · 05 February 2013
