Google has a bevy of side projects and now there's another one: A reported $100 million venture capital fund. Google announced its venture fund on its blog post and like all things the search giant does it has garnered a lot of attention Techmeme. Google says: ...
Google said today that it is launching its own venture capital fund, called Google Ventures, and says it's "focusing on early stage investments across a diverse range of industries, including consumer Internet, software, clean-tech, bio-tech, health care and, no doubt, other areas we haven't thought of yet." ...
Google announces VC FundExcellent Initiative by GoogleExcellent Initiative by Google. Congrats and great path ahead :-)Cheers,Kathiravan Manoharanhttp://kathyravan.blogspot.comhttp://paisamechanic.blogspot.comYeah, but I wouldn't trust them...Google might at one time been the company that you could trust with your online needs, and you might even have been able to trust them with your personal...
Accel Partners said Thursday that it has raised more than $1 billon for two new venture funds--Accel Growth Fund and Accel London III--recession be damned. Accel said in a statement Techmeme that the Growth Fund raised $480 million with London III bringing in $525 million. Accel also...
I met with a Russian delegation to Silicon Valley recently, which was seeking to copy some of our best practices. [Please see: Turning Oil Into Innovation: Russian Delegation Seeks Silicon Valley's Lessons An interesting issue emerged during our conversation. The Russian government is helping to establish several...
NASA has created a nonprofit venture capital firm to invest government money in promising but underfinanced companies, The Washington Post reports. Red Planet Capital is the government's first foray into VC world for civilian technology, although the CIA and Defense Dept. have run funds for military...
I'm not yet ready to announce this, I'm still waiting on a couple of call backs, but...I would love to launch the BBC venture capital fund--to focus on investments in startups developing telemetry solutions. I believe that these are the types of technologies that will be essential in this...
Investments in US venture capital firms jumped 62% in Q1-Q3 2005 over Q1-Q3 2004. VCs raised some $17.3 bln, surpassing the total for all of 2004 in just three quarters. In Q3 2005 45 firms raised investment funds worth $5.39 bln, up 11.6% from the $4.83 bln that 54 firms...
VC firms in Q2 2005 raised a total of more than $6.1 bln vs. $2.3 bln in Q2 2004, a 165% jump, according to VentureOne. It was the most lucrative quarter for VC since the Q4 2001.
PayPal founders launch $50 million VC fundInternetnamebank.comI own http://www.internetnamebank.com and am looking for VC partners to fund start up portals.This is great news as we are also looking for investors to fund start ups and hope the market heats up for entry level start up ventures.
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. Ed Bott: Finally, some answers to Windows 7 upgrade questions Dion Hinchcliffe: Are the iPhone and social networks making...
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,...
Those of you old enough to remember the original Apple Macintosh may also remember the "super-group" known as Asia. The group became notorious for its ego battles, forming, breaking up, and reforming until it became something of a joke. (To the right is the present line-up for...
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...
As you may have seen over the weekend and late last week, Marc Andreessen is starting a venture fund with longtime partner Ben Horowitz. The fund will be focused on angel investing and really formalizes what Horowitz and Andreessen were doing with their money anyway. Andreessen also...
Venture capitalist Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, an early stage fund specializing in investing in IT enabled services 'that have the potential to change the structure of markets', blogged ideas yesterday about the internet's disruption of retail. This is epitomized by the sad state of...
We are heading into the eye of a financial storm that has been threatening for months, and inconceivably large amounts of bailout money is being bandied around by the powers that be in the USA, with similar actions taking place in other countries around the world....
Microsoft: The top 5 risks; Will it cut 2009 outlook as PC market stumbles?Hmmm... Agree in poart, not others.Over all sales are going to drop, no way the entire world can be in this situation without it hurting MS too. As far as online, I don;t think its...
Lijit Networks, which provides search and analytics engines that benefit both bloggers and their readers, announced today that it has closed a $7.1 million series C funding round. Foundry Group, which was a late investor after Lijit closed its $3.3 million series B round last year, led this round. Existing...
Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft sending mixed messages about Windows futures with 'Fiji'? Sam Diaz: LinuxWorld keynotes: Now is the time to invest. Larry Dignan: IBM, Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat gang up on Vista A new data center?...
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