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2 hrs ago | Wall Street Journal

The Daily Startup: Wireless-Industry Veteran to Head NVCA

The National Venture Capital Association has named Bobby Franklin, currently the executive vice president of CTIA-The Wireless Association, as president and chief executive , as the trade group's board seeks to revitalize the shrinking organization.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Startup, WA

3 hrs ago | Forbes.com

North Bridge Venture Partners Future Of Cloud Computing Survey: SaaS...

North Bridge Venture Partners and GigaOM Research released the results of their third annual Future Of Cloud Computing Survey today, providing a glimpse into cloud computing adoption trends, inhibitors and drivers of long-term growth.

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Related Topix: Cloud Computing, Science / Technology, Software as a Service, Emerging Technology, Wireless

7 hrs ago | Business Journal

Forget the coasts. These VC funds are pouring millions into the Midwest

The UpTake: In the Midwest, the newest venture capitalists are regions. And they're raising millions of dollars from their biggest corporate patrons to make bets on startups within their bounds.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Beverages, Anheuser Busch Companies, Procter and Gamble, Household Products

Tue Jun 18, 2013

GigaOM

Fab nabs $150 million in new funding as part of Series D round

With grand ambitions to become the world's design store, Fab has raised the first part of a Series D funding round that looks to add a large flow of cash to the company's efforts.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

WHIO

Silicon Valley's Hottest Matchmaker

What began as a social gathering for like-minded entrepreneurs and VCs has evolved into one of the Valley's most dynamic accelerators.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Zong

The Washington Post

Corporate VC Managers Counter Fred Wilson's ?Patronizing? Attack

Venture capital funds run in-house by companies defended their ability to serve entrepreneurs at the Bloomberg Next Big Thing Summit after Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson ridiculed them earlier this month.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Half Moon Bay, CA, Marketing, Business News

The Hill

CTIA official leaves to head up venture capital group

Bobby Franklin, the executive vice president of CTIA - The Wireless Association, will take the helm of the trade group for investors this fall.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Russell Reynolds Associates, Human Resources

Fortune

Carl Icahn rearranges the Dell chairs

Carl Icahn has became the largest outside shareholder in Dell Inc. , as part of his continuing effort to scuttle a $13.65 per share buyout bid from Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners.

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Related Topix: Computers, Dell, Emerging Technology

Market Wire

Working Opportunity Fund Provides Update on Venture Series Redemptions

Working Opportunity Fund Ltd. reported today that weekly redemptions for the Venture Series have been closed until further notice.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

The Guardian

Paper app firm FiftyThree raises $15m to move into hardware

Apps startup FiftyThree , which makes iPad notebook app Paper , has raised $15m in a Series A funding round.

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Related Topix: Ipad, iPod touch App, Science / Technology, iPad App, Twitter, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, Emerging Technology, Apple, Startups, Facebook

Fortune

Uber CEO talks funding, regulation and what really happened during NYC free taxi week

On-demand car service Uber is not currently raising new venture capital funding, according to comments made by CEO Travis Kalanick last Friday at the Northside Festival in Brooklyn.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

ComputerWorld

Venture firm Accel makes another huge Big Data bet

Accel Partners Tuesday announced a $100 million fund to back software companies exploiting the technology foundation built by the first wave of Big Data start-ups.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

Directions Magazine

SpaceCurve Raises $10M Series B Financing

June 18, 2013 - SpaceCurve, the creator of a new big data platform designed to meet the increasing volume, velocity and variety demands of data in real time, today announced it has raised a $10M Series B round of financing.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Marketing

PE Hub

Jobs of the Week: Benchmark Capital, Blackstone's Park Hill and...

This week there are job vacancies at venture veteran Benchmark Capital and secondaries specialist Coller Capital .

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Benchmark Capital, Startups

Rediff.com

Why India, China are hot spots for VC/PE investors

Not only do Venture Capital and Private Equity investments provide efficiency in business processes and ensure high level of corporate governance, they provide access to capital for business.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

MarketWatch

Therese Poletti's Tech Tales: San Francisco's haves and have-nots

Every weekday morning, sleek buses with smoked glass windows whisk tech workers down major thoroughfares through the city's neighborhoods, to the freeways and ultimately to Silicon Valley.

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Related Topix: San Francisco, CA, The Mission (San Francisco, CA), Startups, Facebook, Emerging Technology

Bloomberg

Unemployment Spurs Challenge to Colleges Online

Acupuncturist Courtney Wallace was struggling to pay off $60,000 in student debt.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Carpinteria, CA, Heritage Foundation, Charitable Organizations

Forbes.com

CareCloud Raises $20 Million In Crowded Market For Electronic Health Records

Tenaya Capital, a technology venture capital firm, led the investment which included returning investors Norwest Venture Partners and Intel Founded only four years ago by Albert Santalo who describes himself as a technologist, CareCloud is making strides in a market cluttered with hundreds of electronic health records, and where consolidation is ... (more)

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Related Topix: CareCloud, Emerging Technology, Startups, Norwest Venture Partners, Nursing, Miami Children's Hospital, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry

GamesIndustry.biz

Oculus VR raises $16m in series A funding

According to a report from Panodaily - later confirmed by AllThingsD - the series A round was led by Spark Capital and Matrix Partners.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

Mon Jun 17, 2013

Spin

Guitar Center's Financial Frets Won't Impede Store Openings

Guitar Center has fallen on hard times. According to Reuters , American finanical services company Standard & Poor's has dropped the music retailer's corporate credit rating to "CCC+" from "B-," citing struggles with "weak operating trends."

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Related Topix: Startups, Bain Capital, Emerging Technology

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