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.
To end your cold Wednesday, Party City files to go public, Sheryl Sandberg becomes a billionaire, why Marc Andreessen is wrong about Bitcoin and NYC kids had to go to school today.
1 min read · 22 January 2014
To end this snowy Tuesday, Marc Andreessen explains why Bitcoin has so many Silicon Valley programmers and entrepreneurs all lathered up, the FBI interrogates a man for wearing Google Glass to a movie theater, Tumblr's growth stalls and prolonged sitting is as bad as smoking.
1 min read · 21 January 2014
To end this temperate Friday, Intel plans to cut 5,000 jobs, Dropbox closes a $250 mln funding round and Andreessen Horowitz is raising around $1.5 bln for its fourth fun. Happy MLK Day!
1 min read · 17 January 2014
Apollo Global Management's bite of Chuck E Cheese's parent appears to be more of a morsel.
2 min read · 17 January 2014
In Second Opinion, Twitter nears a deal with Stripe, a fired Yahoo exec gets $109 mln golden parachute and Wikipedia turns 13 this week.
1 min read · 16 January 2014
RCS Capital Corp is buyingCetera Financial Group, an independent broker-dealer for $1.5 billion from Lightyear Capital.
3 min read · 16 January 2014
In Second Opinion, AOL to sell a majority of Patch, Zendisk hires bankers for an IPO and N.J. Governor Chris Christie's approval rating tumbles.
1 min read · 15 January 2014
Veronis Suhler Stevenson faces many options for its aging fourth buyout fund that still owns many companies and is going into its ninth year.
3 min read · 15 January 2014
In Second Opinion, GM does its first dividend in six years, a Washington appeals court strikes down FCC net neutrality rules and N.J. Governor Chris Christie apologizes again.
1 min read · 14 January 2014
In Second Opinion, Sbarro hires restructuring advisor, Snapchat apologizes, Google buys Nest and N.J. Gov. Chris Christie faces an investigation into how he used Hurricane Sandy money
1 min read · 13 January 2014
