Private Equity
Ellen Pao, a former partner with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, filed a discrimination suit against the famous venture capital firm on May 10, 2012. Here are all of the stories peHUB has published about the case, in chronological order.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
In today's Second Opinion, Larry and Sergey will have to pay more to gas up their private planes, Twitter is doling out options to hang onto top talent, the Drapers disagree about bitcoin and Miley has gone brunette.
2 min read · 13 September 2013
Intel has acquired VC-backed Indisys (aka Intelligent Dialogue Systems SL) for more than $26 million, according to a report by TechCrunch. Founded in 2003 and based in Seville, Spain, Indisys develops natural language and dialogue processing solutions. It previously raised $5.78 million in venture capital from Intel Capital and Inveready Seed Capital SCR SA, with Intel Capital provided $4.15 million of the total, according to Thomson Reuters (publisher of peHUB).
1 min read · 13 September 2013
Second Opinion has news about Apple's $99 iPhone, Intel building tiny chips for wearable devices, Microsoft shareholders pushing for a turnaround expert to replace Ballmer, and an Elvis Costello sighting in Cupertino, California.
1 min read · 10 September 2013
San Jose has become a "rust belt," private equity firms are "looking more aggressively" at tech investments, and European tech companies are able to "retain engineers a great deal longer" than their U.S. counterparts, Index Ventures General Partner Danny Rimer said in a video interview with Reuters.
1 min read · 09 September 2013
In today's Second Opinion, Amazon is thinking about giving away smartphones to catch up to Apple and Samsung, the Fed could start tapering as soon as this month, encrypted email is a joke to the NSA, and Miley Cyrus has lost her twerking crown.
2 min read · 06 September 2013
In Wednesday's Second Opinion, a Senate panel approved a military strike Syria, Samsung wants you to gear up for its smartwatch, Qualcomm prefers that you take a Toq, and you may be able to keep your shoes on the next time you get screened at the airport.
2 min read · 04 September 2013
Today's Second Opinion has news about continued market turmoil due to concerns about a U.S. attack on Syria, Apple launching an iPhone trade-in program, Google buying a smartwatch maker, the merits of a Lego Room for employees, and lots more.
1 min read · 30 August 2013
In Second Opinion we have news about how you can bet on who will be Microsoft's next CEO, chatter that the Fed could put tapering on hold, Putin's poor sense of humor, Twitter's latest purchase and lots more.
2 min read · 28 August 2013
In today's Second Opinion, Bradley Manning gets 35 years in WikiLeaks case, the Fed keeps watchers waiting, even more revelations about NSA spying, Zuckerberg's big dream and why it makes more sense to collect welfare than work a minimum-wage job in most states.
2 min read · 21 August 2013
