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While I get why a late stage investor would ask the question when the valuation is in the $250 million range, I really don't understand why a seed investor would ask this question when the valuation is in the $5m range.

Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich said in an analyst conference call that he is hopeful about boosting consumer PC sales and tablets in the second half of the year. In the second-quarter analyst call, Krzanich said th...

Payments startup Plastiq closed new $10 million round of funding today to enable people to pay with their credit cards anywhere. The startup’s service essentially replaces things that require paper checks, wire transfe...

Our upcoming GrowthBeat event -- August 5-6 in San Francisco -- is exploring the data, apps, and science of successful marketing. What we've traditionally called marketing, the art of convincing people to consider partin...

Fox will have to take Dish Anywhere to court despite precedent set by win over Aereo.

Big chip maker also announced $20B stock buyback.

ScribbleLive grabs up CoveritLive for undisclosed amount.

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Today's Monetary Policy Report is generally optimistic about the economy, but targets high tech ventures as trendy investments that aren't sure to pay off.

Lawyers organization the American Bar Association has a message for its 400,000 members: File-sharing lawsuits “do not yield significant financial returns,” so stop filing them. That recommendation is buried in a 113...

Gautam Thaker of eBay named new LivingSocial CEO.

SwiftKey, which offers perhaps the most successful predictive text keyboard app for Android, is now being sued for patent infringement by another virtual keyboard company, WordLogic. The lawsuit has been filed in the U.S...

Becoming an entrepreneur can be the most exciting and scariest thing that someone does in his or her life. The options, opportunities and decisions that need to be made can be endless and sometimes the fear of failure is...

As the Net Neutrality feedback deadline looms, an overflow of submissions broke the Federal Communications Commission’s public comment tool today. As a result of the downtime, the FCC has extended its feedback deadline...

Google is watching. For zero-day attacks, that is. The tech giant has launched a research group called Project Zero, intending to “significantly reduce the number of people harmed by targeted attacks,” according to a...

Kansas Governor Sam Brownback and his state legislature have embarked on a wonderful natural experiment. Once again we are testing the question: Can tax cuts pay for themselves? The answer-- yet again-- is a resounding ...

Crashyltics, the software that lets you know when your app has crashed, just unleashed a third feature to complete its comprehensive suite of developer tools.

Seedcamp raises 30M to scale and expand its ability to invest and support startups.

A site called ‘Hidden From Google‘ tracks search censorship in Europe, so you don’t have to. The European Union Court of Justice created the “right to be forgotten law” to protect the privacy of individuals. Ye...

Vargas is a symbol that matters to Silicon Valley's moral and business interests.

Mozilla today announced the release of mozjpeg 2.0, an enhanced version of it’s original mozjpeg image encoder. The new encoder provides larger compression improvements than previous encoders. Mozilla says mozjpeg jand...

Free WiFi for some, thanks to Facebook. A school system in Forest City, North Carolina offers every middle and high school student a free laptop, but unfortunately “nearly half of those students don't have access to th...