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.
In Second Opinion, the federal review process for Comcast’s $45.2 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable kicked off today, an emergency room doctor uses Google Glass and saves a patient and San Francisco is cracking down on Air bnb rentals. Plus, how Universal Music CEO Lucian Graine became the most powerful man in music.
1 min read · 08 April 2014
Aequitas Capital expects to hit a $75 million first close for its latest fund later this month, peHUB has learned.
1 min read · 07 April 2014
In Second Opinion, Uber is launching an on-demand courier service in Manhattan tomorrow, Yodle plans to go public later this year, Waze's co-founder confirms that Google paid $1.15 billion for the company and Yahoo is close to ordering four Web series.
1 min read · 07 April 2014
Less than two years after spinning off its last venture capital unit, Capital One plans to launch another VC group to invest in fintech, according to two sources.
2 min read · 04 April 2014
Today in Second Opinion, how Silicon Valley forced the resignation of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich, a five-year old boy exposes an Xbox password flaw, an oral history of Netscape's founding and Google's trying to trademark Glass.
1 min read · 04 April 2014
Today in Second Opinion, Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference will begin this year on 2nd June, Brendan Eich resigns as Mozilla's CEO, the myth of the CEO and Dave Letterman is retiring in 2015.
1 min read · 03 April 2014
Polaris Partners has invested in The Roberts Group. Financial terms weren't announced. The Roberts Group, of New York, provides market data cost and inventory management solutions to the financial services industry.
3 min read · 03 April 2014
Insight Equity has so far collected $399 million for its third fund, according to an SEC filing.
2 min read · 03 April 2014
Great Hill Partners has made a minority investment in bswift. Financial terms weren't announced. Chicago-based bswift offers software and services that aim to streamline benefits, HR and payroll administration for employers and public and private exchanges nationwide. Great Hill's investment came from its fourth investment fund that closed at $1.1 billion in 2009. Raymond James & Associates acted as financial advisor to bswift.
3 min read · 02 April 2014
In Second Opinion, Amazon enters the streaming video set-top box competition with its Fire TV product, the most popular jobs in every state, Microsoft is bringing back the start menu to the Windows desktop and the reorganization of Energy Future Holdings Corp. will likely nearly wipe out owners KKR, TPG and Goldman.
1 min read · 02 April 2014
