Silver Lake, working with Microsoft Corp.venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, offered to buy convertible preferred securities equal to a 10 percent to 15 percent stake for as much as $3 billion, said...
The Silver Lake consortium also includes venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Mosaic became Netscape because the University of Illinois, where Andreessen and Eric Bina worked National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and developed...
Second Life is a venture capital funded business, at the end of an investment cycle. After years of keeping a firm line on how the name system operated, the problems with it for the Lab finally grew to a point where it needed to be changed.
Skype was purchased from eBay last year by a group of investors: private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis.
Obama's at the Harvard Law School and most recently co-founded DC-based venture capital firm, LaunchBox Digital. President-elect Barack Obama is planning to nominate former IAC executive Julius Genachowski as FCC Chairman, according to the Wall...
Miller has been raising money, but it's for his own venture capital firm, not for buying Yahoo. Miller's firm is Velocity Interactive Group and it does invest in digital media. UPDATE: Jonathan Miller Seeks Funds for His VC Firm, Not Yahoo Posted...
Miller has been raising money, but it's for his own venture capital firm, not for buying Yahoo. Miller's firm is Velocity Interactive Group and it does invest in digital media. It turns out yesterday's news about former AOL CEO Jonathan Miller...
Karnstedt announced his plans to resign earlier this summer, and will now leave Yahoo on September 16 for a new opportunity as an executive-in-residence at a Valley-based venture capital firm. Yahoo has initiated another executive shakeup, but this...
Network Division Executive Vice President Jeff Weiner left and became Executive in Residence at two venture capital firms. Prior to his Yahoo/Right Media stint, Lynn was Director of Product Management at behavioral targeting firm TACODA, which was...
Dell has served as the Managing General Partner of Impact Venture Partners, a venture capital firm focused on information technology investments. He also serves as Managing Director at Steelpoint Capital Partners, a private equity firm with offices...
Search Startup Announces $25 Million in Second Round FundingSearch startup Cuill has announced $25 million in venture capital as part of a second round of funding. Lycos Partners with Click Forensics to Improve PPC QualityOne month after Yahoo...
Prior to Mahalo.com's launch in alpha in May 2007, he was an "Entrepreneur in Action" at Sequoia Capital, Silicon Valley's leading venture capital firm, a position he held since December 2006. The flagship publication later became Venture Reporter...
Ask Shuffles ManagementJim Lanzone, CEO of Ask.com since April 2006, has left the company to serve as an entrepreneur-in-residence at a venture capital firm. When Terry Semel joined Yahoo as chairman and CEO in May 2001, he left behind the...
Ask Shuffles ManagementJim Lanzone, CEO of Ask.com since April 2006, has left the company to serve as an entrepreneur-in-residence at a venture capital firm. Want a snapshot of the day's search marketing news?
Jim Lanzone, CEO of Ask.com since April 2006, has left the company to serve as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Redpoint Ventures, a venture capital firm. Lanzone will be replaced by former Match.com CEO Jim Safka, who has been leading IAC's venture...
SEW Experts: SEO for Start-ups and VCsThere are few venture capital firms that really understand the importance of SEO, and few resources devoted to supporting it. Working with a best-of-breed search marketing firm alongside other best-of-breed...
ToDou: China's YouTube Adds Advertising, Gets Venture CapitalToDou, the Chinese equivalent to YouTube, announced the launch of an ad serving platform, as well as the acquisition of $19 million in venture capital.
The Lotus operating principles helped turn a company that was founded in April 1982 with eight employees and $1 million in venture capital into the biggest independent software firm. Greg Jarboe is the president and co-founder of SEO-PR, a search...
Yahoo's VP of consumer Web search Andrew Braccia has left Yahoo for the greener pastures of venture capital, joining Accel Partners this week as a principal, according to Venture Beat. Accel investments include Brightcove, Coremetrics, Facebook...
Amazon seems eager to find an alternative to its dependence on mainstream search providers, investing venture capital in Jimmy Wales' Wikia. Umbria Plans Blog Monitoring on the CheapThe market intelligence firm will launch a subscription-based...
