Venture Capital News

Profitero analyzes competitor pricing data, offering retailers new levels of insight to help them maximize profits by adjusting pricing and merchandising strategies.

A TSA inspection helped Julie Macklowe switch careers from hedge fund manager to entrepreneur, selling luxury, travel-friendly toiletry kits After graduating from the University of Virginia in 1999, Julie Macklowe got a job as an analyst at J.P. Morgan Partners.

The idea of getting entrepreneurs to live on a ship to avoid visa problems seems pretty ridiculous -- nothing more than a dream.

Lightspeed Venture Partners , an investor in LivingSocial.com, has almost finished raising two funds, one in the U.S. and one in China , totaling about $875 million, said two people with knowledge of the matter.

For an emerging generation of Japanese innovators, the dream isn't a job for life at a big company.

"In July 1996, the 14-year-old daughter of Robert Gay, a partner at Bain Capital, had disappeared," the story reads.

Chinese companies operating in the consumer services industry, which includes many Internet companies, raised $3.3 billion in 2011.

President Obama tours the headquarters of the Solyndra solar panel company in Freemont, Calif., on May 26, 2010.The company declared bankruptcy in August 2011.

A whole lot of venture capitalists are about to get a nice windfall with the upcoming Facebook IPO .

This post is being dispatched by yours truly, Todd "Turbo" Watson, who is acting as a guest blogger on the IBM SmartCamp blog for this year's IBM SmartCamp Global Finals.

Rich Tehrani gave some interesting ITEXPO facts during his keynote introductions.

Internet security company TrustedID has acquired Reppler , a year-old technology start-up that helps consumers and brands manage their reputations on social networks, including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, VentureWire has learned.

You've probably already gotten the status update: Facebook, based in Menlo Park, filed papers today for its initial public stock offering.

Venture capitalist Tim Chang says 2012 may bring a "return to normalcy" for deal making in China.

One of the more indepth pieces on the cleantech venture capital boom and bust cycles was published in Wired this week .

The number of US venture capital investments in cleantech companies didn't increase in 2011, but they didn't decline either.

With Facebook on the precipice of registering to go public, we took a stroll down memory lane-and into Dow Jones news archives-to see how this fledgeling evolved into the social networking giant it is today.

No, Romney's recent singing performance hasn't landed him a spot on the FOX talent show, but it looks like his former employer has taken a keen interest in the business dealings of Idol's host.

Domo Technologies Inc., the newest venture from Omniture Inc. co-founder Josh James, raised $20 million from Institutional Venture Partners to help it expand its business intelligence company.

Mark Zuckerberg owns 24% of the company he founded as a student at Harvard. His network was credited with sparking the Egyptian revolution and his stake could be worth up to $24bn .Accel Partners, the Palo Alto venture capital firm, snaffled 15% of Facebook when the company was valued at $98m. The deal included million dollar bonus payouts ... ...