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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
- 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
- Workday lands $75 million in venture funding
- Workday, a human resources software as a service provider, said Wednesday that it has landed $75 million in Series E funding. Workday, the brainchild of Dave Duffield, who cooked up PeopleSoft, said in a statement that New Enterprise Associates, Greylock Partners and Duffield participated in the round....
- Tags: Workday, Corporate Governance, Benefits, Investment, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-29
- Intel and GE put $25 million per year each into monitors
- Under the agreement, announced with some fanfare by CEOs Paul Otellini of Intel and Jeff Immelt of GE, each company will put $25 million per year, over five years, into the joint venture. This led them to trumpet a $250 million investment. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Monitor, General Electric Co., Health Care, Intel Corp., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-04-02
- Greentech investments continue, but declining
- A survey found considerable greentech investments around the world for Q1, 2009--the same Q1 that had stock markets dyspepsic, investors shy, and governments throwing money at every shadow that moved. The Cleantech GroupT, along with Deloitte, have just released preliminary 1Q09 results for clean technology venture...
- Tags: Investment, Clean Technology, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-04-01
- Twitter: A fine 'pre-business' but un-monetizable and a deadly acquisition target
- Dear Google, Yahoo and any other potential buyer of Twitter. Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay says it's a bad idea. A really bad idea. In a research note, Lindsay delivers an interesting history lesson of Internet "pre-businesses." You know the ones: The companies with large user bases, a...
- Tags: Monetization, Google Inc., Acquisition, Network, Twitter, Social Networking, Web 2.0, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- Linux Foundation ready to fight Microsoft if TomTom lawsuit involves Linux kernel
- Linux Foundation ready to fight Microsoft if TomTom lawsuit involves Linux kernelA mixed barrel of fish.There are so many threads in this mess that one can look at almost anything. But some things come out loud and clear:1. We are in a post-Bilski situation......software patents (which seem to be at...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Linux kernel, Tom-Tom, TomTom, patent
- Discussion threads 2009-02-27
- Intel: HP accounts for 20 percent of annual sales
- Intel said in its annual report that Hewlett-Packard accounted for 20 percent of Intel's revenue, up from 17 percent in 2007. Dell accounted for 18 percent in 2008, flat with 2007. No other customer accounted for more than 10 percent of sales, according to Intel's annual regulatory...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Lehman Brothers Inc., Sales, Intel Corp., Manufacturing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-23
- AMD wins approval for manufacturing spin-off
- AMD can breathe easier today: It won approval to spin-off its manufacturing assets. On Wednesday, AMD said that its shareholders approved a proposal to issue shares and warrants to create a joint venture between the chip maker and Advanced Technology Investment Company of Abu Dhabi statement. This...
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Manufacturing, Balance Sheets, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-18
- Green stimuli?
- How much green for greentech in the "stimulus" bill that looks to be headed to law? I have not read the whole 1400 pages and I will not use the energy it would take to do so. But here's some of what I've gleaned. $20 bn for...
- Tags: Renewable Energy, Battery, Taxes, Telecom & Utilities, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-02-12
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