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US venture investments down 61% in Q1 2009

US venture capital investments sank 61% in Q1 2009, dropping to the lowest level in 12 years. VC investments totaled $3 bln in Q1 2009, according to PriceWaterhouseCoopers, the National Venture Capital Association and Thomson Reuters. In Q1 2008, investments totaled $7.74 bln. This is the lowest quarterly level of...

Tags: Venture Investment, Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, AM

Blog posts 2009-04-20

Venture investments into IT down 14.5% in 2008

IT Venture capital dropped to $11.64 bln for all of 2008, down 14.5% from 2007, according to VentureSource. Software companies, which continue to capture the largest slice of IT venture investments, dropped 16.4% during the year, to $4.73 bln in funding. by AM

Tags: Information Technology, Investment, Venture Investment, Strategy, Management, AM

Blog posts 2009-01-17

Venture investments into IT down 14.5% in 2008

IT Venture capital dropped to $11.64 bln for all of 2008, down 14.5% from 2007, according to VentureSource. Software companies, which continue to capture the largest slice of IT venture investments, dropped 16.4% during the year, to $4.73 bln in funding. by AM

Tags: Information Technology, Investment, Venture Investment, Strategy, Management, AM

Blog posts 2009-01-17

US venture investments up 10.8% in 2007

US venture capitalists invested a total of $29.4 bln in 2007, up 10.8% from 2006. The number of deals reached 3,813 in 2007, a modest rise of 5% over 2006, PriceWaterhouseCoopers reports. by AM

Tags: PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Venture Investment, Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, AM

Blog posts 2008-01-20

Additional Resources

MSFT versus GOOG - there's a big gap

Countering Google[i]At the current rate of Google?s revenue growth, 7 per cent, it would take it more than 3 years to reach Microsoft?s current quarterly revenue.[/i]The above is true if you assume MS will have no growth over the next 3 years. I don't think that will be the case....

Tags: Web browsers, Operational accounting, Strategy, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

Blue crab nanosensor to fight terrorism

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Tags: terrorism

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

Investors won't venture to gamble

The quarter recently ended was not a happy one for venture capital firms. Investments were down by 80% in Q3, compared to a year earlier. Apparently the lowest level since the nasty days of 2003 when the tech bubbled had burst in investors' faces. Investment was so...

Tags: Green Technology, Investor, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-13

Salesforce.com Plays In the Enterprise - Again

Back in 1999, I was a salesforce.com user and at that time, it was a rather kludgy sales force automation application that didn't do much right - for example if I tried to export a .CSV file it gave me an .XLS file and vice versa.  I read something by Marc...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Accounting, Financial, Sales Force Management, Sales Force Automation (SFA), Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-10-07

Twitter announces "significant" funding; offers few details

As expected, Twitter announced today that it had received "a significant round of funding with a group of investment firm" but offered few details beyond that. Earlier this week, reports in the Wall Street Journal and TechCrunch implied that the company was close to raising $100 million...

Tags: Twitter Inc., T. Rowe Price Group Inc., Investment Partner, Investment, Mutual Funds, Finance, Human Resources, Benefits, Retirement Plans, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-25

U.S. national broadband strategy: Funding is the elephant in the room

we don't need big governmentThe broadband has to be build by private businesses and everyone needs to pay to get it.The government should only provide incentives like tax cuts that are deficit neutral.And of courseAnd of course ZDNet is still pushing the crazy idea that broadband everywhere is inevitable. Somehow,...

Tags: Network technology, Broadband Internet, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Highways, broadband, broadband over power line, U.S. national broadband strategy, U.S. National

Discussion threads 2009-08-14

Groovy says it can make IT apps work in real-time

Groovy, an Australian startup, says it has a real-time database that runs 105 times faster than the fastest mainstream relational database - a highly tuned MySQL. The company recently relocated to Silicon Valley to better showcase its technology. Today it released the results of tests that show...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Information Technology, Groovy SQL Switch, Storage, 64-Bit, Data Management, Databases, Hardware, Processors, Semiconductors, Components, Enterprise Software, Software, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-07-30

Virgin Galactic unveils Eve; Snares Abu Dhabi investment

Sir Richard Branson unveiled his latest aircraft, or rather spacecraft. In a few years, for $200,000, thrill seekers will be able to ride into sub-orbit space. Separately, Virgin Galactic landed a $280 million investment from Abu Dhabi's Aabar Investments. In this raw video, you get a look at...

Tags: Virgin Group, Investment, Virgin Galactic, Aabar Investments, Business Structures, Aerospace & Defense, Network Technology, Finance, Manufacturing, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-28

Visionary 2009: Kay Koplovitz - more women entrepreneurs

Kay Koplovitz calls for more women entrepreneurs during her acceptance speech at the SDForum visionary awards. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGRyvhsP7Uk Her Bio: Kay Koplovitz is currently a principal of...

Tags: Women, Board, Gender And Diversity, Venture Capital, Corporate Governance, Investment, Entrepreneurship, Human Resources, Finance, Financing Startups, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-06-30

One example of "smarter planet"

The smart grid for electricity has become so mainstream Congress wrote it into the stimulus law enacted earlier this year. IBM's marketing of "smarter planet" goes way beyond electricity and networked grid. I recently spoke with Drew Clark, director of strategy of IBM Venture Capital Group. And...

Tags: Sensor, Grid, IBM Corp., Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-21

News to know: Facebook; Psystar Chapter 11; Intel; Twitter API; Nokia's Ovi Store

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Facebook snares $200 million investment from Russian investor Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Psystar files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Nokia Corp., API, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Twitter, Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operational Planning, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Business Operations, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-27

Smaller profit margins will slow adoption of larger Kindle

Smaller profit margins will slow adoption of larger KindlePart of the mythis that the costs of textbooks will go down dramatically because cost of reproduction publishing will go down. When in fact, the actual cost of the paper, printing and binding are minor costs in the production of the textbooks....

Tags: Monitors & displays, profit margin

Discussion threads 2009-05-08

How many Intel CPUs will fail the XP Mode test in Windows 7?

How many Intel CPUs will fail the XP Mode test in Windows 7?Want to do the same post ...... for AMD CPUs? :)nope :/I just bought a Quad Q8300 a few weeks ago. I didn't put much thought into VT. My dad has a Core 2 Duo that...

Tags: Processors, Desktops, Intel Corp., XP Mode, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows XP, CPU, Microsoft Windows, processor, Intel Core 2 Duo, PC

Discussion threads 2009-05-03

Oracle Office, MySQL, and other dreams

Oracle Office, MySQL, and other dreamsIt also allows Oracle to take baby steps towards the world where databases become a commodity. They will be already are moving up the chain to applications.In the transition, Oracle will have the number one commodity database with the best monetization strategy, and be able...

Tags: OpenOffice, Databases, OPEN SOURCE, Oracle Corp., Oracle Office, MySQL, database

Discussion threads 2009-05-02

Analysis of Workday's capital infusion

Yesterday, Workday announced it had raised $75 million in Series E venture financing. The investors in this round included company founder Dave Duffield, Greylock Partners a firm Aneel Bhusri joined after his PeopleSoft days, as well as VC firm NEA Ventures. NEA is the new player in the mix. ...

Tags: Valuation, Financing, Workday, Analysis, NEA Ventures, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-04-30

How far will Workday go with its $75 million?

Workday's latest $75 million round brings the SaaS poster child's total venture funding to date to $150 million. It all leaves me wondering how exactly the vendor will use the cash, and what the size of the investment tells us about the provider's ambitions by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Workday, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Investment, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2009-04-29