Private Equity
Erik Blackford and Barry McCarthy have joined Technology Crossover Ventures as venture partners, the firm announced. Blachford previously was president and CEO of IAC Travel, managing all of the company's travel assets, including Expedia, Hotels.com and Hotwire. McCarthy formerly served as CFO of Netflix, a TCV portfolio company. TCV has been busy on the hiring front; last week the company brought on Blackstone vet Ted Coons.
4 min read · 05 April 2011
CI Capital Partners’ Texas-based Transplace, a provider of transportation management services and logistics technology, has acquired SCO Logistics, a Philadelphia-based logistics firm. Terms of the deal and advisors were not publicized; Joost Thesseling, a managing director with CI Capital Partners, worked on the transaction.
3 min read · 05 April 2011
3 min read · 05 April 2011
Look Who’s Coming to Dinner: Google could become ensnared in antitrust probe Can’t We All Just Get Along? Integrating angels into the VC mix Welcome Back! American flies again on Expedia, Hotwire Just Asking… Is it time to break up Google?
1 min read · 05 April 2011
2 min read · 04 April 2011
2 min read · 04 April 2011
Saban Brands, the U.S.-based brand management company, could bid for Hit Entertainment, the Apax Partners-run entertainment rights manager that owns rights to kids’ shows including Thomas the Tank Engine, an article in Marketwatch said. Since reclaiming the rights to his Power Rangers phenomenon last year from Disney, Haim Saban, founder of Saban Brands, has looked to expand on his stable of rights.
1 min read · 04 April 2011
Got our e-mails? Get our e-mails. Another Trip to the Big Dance: Butler plays for all the marbles again tonight Locked & Loaded: Accel Partners is armed for China with new fund Temperature’s Rising: Fired Facebook employee could face insider trading inquiry Boerse Bid Brewing? Better be, if they aim to beat Nasdaq-ICE
1 min read · 04 April 2011
2 min read · 01 April 2011
Scandal! Facebook dumps exec following secondary markets purchases that violated company policy That’s, Like, a Lot of Cash: Bessemer raises $1.6B Look Alive: So you don’t wind up a victim of one of the many April Fool’s pranks Not So Fast, Deutsche Boerse: Nasdaq, ICE make a play for NYSE Euronext
1 min read · 01 April 2011
