I've been a business reporter for a while. I've covered Wall Street, venture capital and now private equity. I'm always looking for a scoop or something to talk about. I'm the eternal optimist and am still waiting for the Chicago Cubs to win the World Series. Yes, I believe.
The hardest thing about traveling to the North Pole is keeping your hands warm, according to Mounir Guen, the founder and CEO of placement agent MVision.
3 min read · 16 April 2014
In Second Opinion, Google's first quarter revenue misses, a young VC thinks Fred Wilson is wrong about young VCs, Kim Dotcom may get his assets back and a study finds that a person's Facebook profile is a significant predictor of job performance.
1 min read · 16 April 2014
In Second Opinion, the Galaxy S5, Samsung’s new flagship smartphone, costs about $256 to build, Yahoo Q1 earnings beat estimates and Amazon is finally close to unveiling the first of several own-brand smartphones.
1 min read · 15 April 2014
Crestview Partners looks like it will be merging Munder Capital Management with another of its portfolio companies, two sources told peHUB.
2 min read · 14 April 2014
Today in Second Opinion: Windows Phone 8.1 delivers on all fronts; Google buys Titan Aerospace, the drone maker Facebook wanted; how bad of a PE investment was Nuveen; and, get ready for the blood moon.
1 min read · 14 April 2014
In Second Opinion, the NSA knew about the heartbleed flaw for two years and used it to gather intelligence, the nun who got addicted to twitter, the Nasdaq closes below the 4,000 mark for the first time since early February and just in time for prom here's the KFC chicken corsage
1 min read · 11 April 2014
In Second Opinion, John Chen says BlackBerry is not leaving the handset market and employees in France will no longer check their work-related email before 9 a.m. or after 6 p.m. Plus, CBS picks David Letterman's replacement.
1 min read · 10 April 2014
Decisyon said Thursday it received received $22 million in Series B funding from a group of investors led by Catalyst Investors. Stamford, Conn.-based Decisyon, Inc. provides business intelligence and performance management software solutions.
3 min read · 10 April 2014
Alliance Consumer Growth collected $90 million in commitments for its second fund. ACG Fund II, which was oversubscribed, was raised in two months. ACG did not use a placement agent. Fund I launched in 2011 with total commitments of $44 million. The New York-based private equity firm provides minority growth capital to consumer, retail and restaurant companies. ACG typically invests up to $10 million of equity per company with at least $5 million to $25 million of annual sales. Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel was ACG's legal advisor for Fund II.
2 min read · 10 April 2014
Today in Second Opinion, El Pollo Loco is looking to go public, Dropbox unveils Carousel, Apple sours on making an offer for Square and White Castle is now offering breakfast.
1 min read · 09 April 2014
