Startup News

In a recent interview, Murray Newlands interviews Jeff Lee from DCM about the state of Silicon Valley, as well as what early-stage tech companies can do to catch the attention of top investors.

Education software firm FreshGrade just took $4.3 million in seed funding to help teachers manage student work from the cloud. FreshGrade is the brain child of Lane Merrifield, Steve Wandler, and Mark Payne. Merrifield p...

I recently spoke to Mark Frauenfelder, who is the founder of Boing Boing and the founding editor-in-chief of MAKE magazine. He is also the founding editor-in-chief of Wired Online, and co-founder of Wink Books. Frauenfe...

By now, being acquired by Yahoo is a whole separate exit category for startups, and the latest to go that route is ClarityRay, an Israeli startup that helps publishers identify fraudulent ads. From the company’s homepa...

Google is worried about sharks biting through its fiber optic cables that will soon run from the States to Japan. So they're wrapping them in a protective chemical to keep them safe.

DataRobot, a startup that built a cloud service for comparing various algorithms that can help data scientists build effective predictive models, has raised $21 million, according to a report today in the Wall Street Jou...

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Guest Post: If we offered promising adults the same funding, mentoring, and opportunity that we do to young entrepreneurs and school children, we would likely get the world-changing successes we're all looking for.

VC/DC examines the accident-prone intersection of policy and technology. This episode looks at continued efforts to reform a much-abused federal computer security law and what happens when computer-related patents are gi...

Anonymous can effect positive change by hacking the right targets when the moment calls. But they screwed up big time in Missouri in the killing of an innocent black kid in Missouri.

Microsoft is preparing to launch a preview version of its next operating system, Windows 9, next month, reports ZDnet. We first heard news about Windows 9, previously codenamed Threshold, at the beginning of the year. Th...

New fund Alignment Holdings targets growth companies using technology and collaboration as a competitive weapon.

Ah, the relentless cadence of Techstars. All over the world, every year, from London to Seattle, its waves of ambitious startups and inventors seem to rise and surge with the inevitably of the tides. Its entrepreneurs ma...

Warner could merge Xbox Entertainment Studio with its Machinima production company.

NEW YIRK - The Ebola outbreak, Indian privatization and US midterms feature in the latest edition of our RiskMap Podcast, with Michael Moran and David Lea. The implications for businesses working in West Africa, now suff...

Ride-sharing in the sky has hit a rock-hard cloud by the name of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) - and an affected flight-sharing service is questioning the decision.

Vogue magazine has been an inspiration to countless fashion addicts and worshippers throughout its decades of existence, but it's also a source of inspiration to one man: Mike McCue, Flipboard's chief executive. In fact,...

New BlackBerry Passport will have both a touchpad and a keyboard to possibly widen consumer appeal.

Selling video is a tough business, with cable players stuck between demanding content owners and cost-weary customers. Broadband, on the other hand, is a high-margin, low-competition business.

Recognize these sales statistics? 48% of sales people never follow up with a prospect 25% of sales people make a second contact and stop 12% of sales people only make three contacts and stop Only 10% of sales people make...

Fans of Amazon e-reader the Kindle Paperwhite probably won’t be getting a device update in the near future, but the company is upgrading the existing model. Amazon decided to upgrade the Paperwhite from 2GB of storage ...

If you're looking for something to rekindle your faith in tech's potential for good, after the inexplicable rise of Yo and Kim Kardashian's mobile game, take a close look at Significance Labs.