Rich Skrenta, CEO of Blekko, told Search Engine Watch that Yandex has joined as a strategic investor meaning that they may provide resources to the developing search engine. A Yandex spokesperson also confirmed the willingness to collaborate...
So, yes, you'll be able to invest in Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other hot private tech outfits as a routine retail investor - through this closed-end fund," MarketFinancial reported. The logic is that such sophisticated investors are more...
Keyword research software company Wordstream said it secured $6m (USD) worth of funding in series B preferred stock from new investor Egan-Managed Capital and existing investor Sigma + Partners. As part of the deal, Egan-Managed Capital Partner...
EDT) today with Chris Liddell, senior vice president and chief financial officer, Frank Brod, corporate vice president and chief accounting officer, and Bill Koefoed, general manager of Investor Relations, to discuss details of the company's...
Earlier, investor Eric Jackson announced his support for a combo board, that would keep 5 of Yahoo's current board and bring in 4 from Icahn's board. Former Search Technologist and Yahoo Investor Mark Nelson Supports Icahn
Yahoo has confirmed that billionaire investor Carl Icahn has initiated a proxy fight via an open letter to Yahoo's board of directors notifying them of his intention to replace the existing board with his own slate of directors.
We ended up somewhat higher on our headcount expenses than we planned," CEO Eric Schmidt said on the investor call. The company spent too much, as they said they might some day," Jordan Rohan, an analyst with RBC Capital Markets, told the Times.
Meanwhile, IGA Worldwide, the in-game advertising company, has brought aboard Intel Capital as an investor. Kontera, which I wrote about here (and which was previously known as eZula), has taken in $7 million from venture firms Sequoia Capital and...
Google Investor Relations: Google 2006 capital spending to jump from 2005: From Reuters, a brief look again at capital spending and the big jump Google expects to do this year, mainly for computers and supporting hardware.
Here are a few things that particularly caught my eye among the many investor warnings: The two founders each have 15 percent, with the company's two venture capital backers at 9 percent, and Google's CEO holding about 6 percent.
