Category: San Francisco

Coulomb Technologies Garners $15,000,000 Series C Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0fcee881-1db2-4913-b5e7-699abffa1f1a&Preview=1 Date 9/8/2010 Company Name Coulomb Technologies Mailing Address 1692 Dell Ave Campbell, CA 95008-6901 Company Description Coulomb delivers networked charging stations and provides a service that meets the needs of drivers, municipalities, electric utilities and government entities by providing: * A secure, safe, reliable way for consumers to charge their electric … Continue reading “Coulomb Technologies Garners $15,000,000 Series C Funding”

Windensity Lands $1,253,634 New Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=587fa7c7-e4c0-4854-8237-0c88b1240d0c&Preview=1 Date 9/8/2010 Company Name Windensity Mailing Address 1880 Flightline Dr. Lincoln, CA 95648 Company Description WINDensity is a alternative energy technology company that has developed an distributed wind solution using roof-top mounted turbines to produce clean energy for commercial businesses worldwide. Website http://www.windensity.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,253,634 Transaction … Continue reading “Windensity Lands $1,253,634 New Financing”

Expensify Lands $5,700,000 Series A Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=9ec50127-00f7-4597-b8e9-dd910c09cc08&Preview=1 Date 9/8/2010 Company Name Expensify Mailing Address 548 Market St San Francisco, CA 94104 Company Description Expensify is all about getting your expenses reimbursed quickly and easily, and the first step in that is telling us what you bought. Website http://www.expensify.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $5,700,000 Transaction Round Series … Continue reading “Expensify Lands $5,700,000 Series A Round”

CrowdConf

CrowdFlower is spearheading the creation of CrowdConf, the first conference centered around the emerging field of crowdsourcing and the future of distributed work. Researchers, technologists, outsourcing experts, legal scholars and artists will gather in San Francisco on October 4 to discuss how crowdsourcing is transforming human computation and the future of work. From the event website: “The … Continue reading “CrowdConf”

HP Sues Hurd

In documents filed Tuesday in the Superior Court of California in Santa Clara County, Palo Alto, CA-based Hewlett-Packard says former HP (NYSE: [[ticker:HPQ]]) CEO Mark Hurd’s decision to take a job with rival Oracle (NASDAQ: [[ticker:ORCL]]) places HP’s trade secrets “in peril” and asks the court to enjoin Hurd from working there. Non-compete agreements are … Continue reading “HP Sues Hurd”

Plexxikon Shows How New Drug Hits Molecular Target for Deadly Skin Cancer

Plexxikon has just landed a one-two punch in a couple of the world’s top medical and scientific journals. Just a couple weeks after the Berkeley, CA-based biotech company delivered some eye-opening results in the New England Journal of Medicine on its drug candidate for a deadly type of skin cancer, it is following that up … Continue reading “Plexxikon Shows How New Drug Hits Molecular Target for Deadly Skin Cancer”

Healthcare Industry Concepts Rise from the Grave

There was a great article authored by Gregory Huang and posted on Xconomy last week called Party Like It’s 1999: 10 Old Tech Ideas That Are New Again. The article was basically about the top 10 things that are hot right now but are, essentially, “back to the future” developments in technology that had a … Continue reading “Healthcare Industry Concepts Rise from the Grave”

Back from Labor Day: Three Posts You Should Read

Was there a summer slowdown this year in the tech-business world? I’m not so sure (and neither are some other observers). In any case, let’s get ready for the craziness that is fall news and events in our industries. Here are three blog posts from around the Web—and around the country—that you might have missed … Continue reading “Back from Labor Day: Three Posts You Should Read”

Hurd Joins Oracle

Mark Hurd, who presided over five years of remarkable growth at Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: [[ticker:HPQ]]) before stepping down amidst an investigation into expense reports that were allegedly altered to cover up a personal relationship with a contractor, is the newest president and board member at Oracle (NASDAQ: [[ticker:ORCL]]) in Redwood Shores, CA, reporting directly to CEO … Continue reading “Hurd Joins Oracle”

Cerus, With Technology to Knock Out Viruses in Blood, Finds New Potential in Chronic Fatigue

Cerus has struggled for years to convince regulators that its technology for ridding the nation’s blood supply of pathogens deserves a chance on the U.S. market. Now the Concord, CA-based biotech company is pinning some renewed hope for its business on a study that says it can wipe out a newly discovered virus that some … Continue reading “Cerus, With Technology to Knock Out Viruses in Blood, Finds New Potential in Chronic Fatigue”

Google Goes for Games with SocialDeck, Apple Goes Social with iTunes, 3Par Goes to the Highest Bidder, & More Bay Area BizTech News

Three Silicon Valley standbys—HP, Apple, and Google—captured most of the tech news headlines last week. But VMware and Intel were busy too. —Hewlett-Packard won its bidding war with Dell for Fremont, CA-based 3Par. The final price: $33 per share, or about $2.35 billion, more than twice Dell’s original offer. —SocialDeck, a Waterloo, Ontario-based maker of … Continue reading “Google Goes for Games with SocialDeck, Apple Goes Social with iTunes, 3Par Goes to the Highest Bidder, & More Bay Area BizTech News”

Joyent Secures $15,000,000 New Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=9dd7554f-95e0-424b-b6d9-7c4a932c9eff&Preview=1 Date 9/7/2010 Company Name Joyent Mailing Address 345 California Street San Francisco, CA 94104 Company Description Joyent has been providing Infrastructure as a Service since 2004, before anyone called it cloud computing. Today, Joyent is the only cloud computing company that has built its own complete technology stack, runs a major … Continue reading “Joyent Secures $15,000,000 New Round”

Lypro Biosciences Inc. Secures $177,950 New Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=98911279-7d30-4f5f-8cd6-2d60344d232e&Preview=1 Date 9/7/2010 Company Name Lypro Biosciences Inc. Mailing Address 1236 Hawthorne Street Alameda, CA 94501-3973 Company Description Lypro Biosciences, Inc. is a specialty biopharma company whose technology addresses the adverse effects arising from the insoluble nature of certain hydrophobic drugs. Website Undisclosed Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $177,950 Transaction Round … Continue reading “Lypro Biosciences Inc. Secures $177,950 New Financing Round”

Intarcia Therapeutics Receives $5,000,750 New Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8db65528-839e-45fe-9c89-ef56c087689f&Preview=1 Date 9/7/2010 Company Name Intarcia Therapeutics Mailing Address 24650 Industrial Boulevard Hayward, CA 94545 Company Description Intarcia Therapeutics Inc, a privately held pharmaceutical company, is developing therapies for the treatment of cancer, immunological, and infectious diseases. Website http://www.intarcia.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $5,000,750 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes … Continue reading “Intarcia Therapeutics Receives $5,000,750 New Round”

AuthenTec Acquires UPEK for $32,040,000

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=dc030811-92fa-42fb-addf-5561d3865ccc&Preview=1 Date 9/7/2010 Company Name UPEK Mailing Address 5900 Christie Ave. Emeryville, CA 94608 Company Description UPEK, Inc. is a privately-held biometric fingerprint solutions company launched as a venture-backed spin-off from STMicroelectronics in 2004. Website http://www.upek.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount $32,040,000 Transaction Round Proceeds Purposes M&A Terms Under the terms of … Continue reading “AuthenTec Acquires UPEK for $32,040,000”

Red Bend Software Acquires VirtualLogix for Undisclosed Sum

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=196222db-3772-4fa9-b5d6-9e0451a8c090&Preview=1 Date 9/7/2010 Company Name VirtualLogix Mailing Address 292 Gibraltar Drive Building 104 Sunnyvale, CA 94089 Company Description VirtualLogix, Inc. is the global leader in Real-Time Virtualization technology for connected devices. VirtualLogix VLX enables multiple operating system environments to run concurrently on shared hardware and provides a range of performance, fault tolerance … Continue reading “Red Bend Software Acquires VirtualLogix for Undisclosed Sum”

Blue Buzz Network, Inc. Obtains $1,307,834 New Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c7eb39c1-c0c7-41ff-aeb4-64e4c20e51c2&Preview=1 Date 9/6/2010 Company Name Blue Buzz Network, Inc. Mailing Address 2030 Harrison Street San Francisco, CA 94110 Company Description The Blue Buzz Network is an internet startup changing the world by organizing all of the world’s news. Website Undisclosed Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,307,834 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes … Continue reading “Blue Buzz Network, Inc. Obtains $1,307,834 New Round”

Vator Splash

Hosted by Vator.tv, Vator Splash is an opportunity for startups to showcase their innovations before an audience of other technology entrepreneurs. Investor Peter Thiel, Twitter COO Dick Costolo, and Eventbrite CEO Dick Hartz will be on hand for keynote talks, and 10 companies will give 4-minute presentations, with audience voting. Information and registration here.

The Innovation Imperative: How Corporations and Nations Can Survive the Tsunami of Global Competition and Thrive

Government leaders in Europe and North America are seeking to formulate enlightened, effective policies to create the necessary ecosystems and help their corporations respond to threats of loss of markets at home and abroad. The need to better commercialize public and private investments in R & D is well understood, but does not always happen … Continue reading “The Innovation Imperative: How Corporations and Nations Can Survive the Tsunami of Global Competition and Thrive”

The Leaning Tower of Ping: How iTunes Could Be Apple’s Undoing

With each new product that Apple announces, including the revamped Apple TV and the new Ping social network, Steve Jobs reveals a little bit more of his plan to dominate the media universe. But I can summarize that plan’s fatal flaw in one word: iTunes. Don’t get me wrong. I think Apple’s hardware is unbeatable, … Continue reading “The Leaning Tower of Ping: How iTunes Could Be Apple’s Undoing”

UP 2010 Cloud Computing Conference

The conference website describes UP 2010 as “An annual review of cloud computing developments, the cloud’s impact on world economy and society, and an aggregation point for the study of future trends.” Information and registration here.

HP Wins Bidding War for 3Par

Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: [[ticker:HPQ]]) announced today that it will acquire Fremont, CA-based storage virtualization company 3Par (NYSE: [[ticker:PAR]]) for for about $2.35 billion. That’s more than twice the price originally offered by Dell in mid-August; the two computer industry giants have spent the last two weeks locked in a bidding war for 3Par, with HP’s $33 … Continue reading “HP Wins Bidding War for 3Par”

It’s Time for Universities to Get More Nimble

“Early to bed, Early to rise, Makes a man healthy, Wealthy and wise.” Attempting to motivate their children to go to bed at a reasonable time, parents have for generations invoked these three time-honored rewards. Probably least compelling was the promise of health. Health is the absence of something–sickness–and is only fully appreciated when we … Continue reading “It’s Time for Universities to Get More Nimble”

Inflection Gets $30M, Launches PeopleSmart

Palo Alto, CA-based Inflection has launched a new consumer-oriented people search engine called PeopleSmart with features designed to protect privacy, according to an announcement today. Also the creator of the Archives.com geneaology site, Inflection raised a Series A venture round in July from Matrix Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures. The round totaled $30 million, according … Continue reading “Inflection Gets $30M, Launches PeopleSmart”

Apple Vs. Amazon Battle Continues: Adventures in TV Land

[Corrected, 11:00 am. See below] First it was the iPad vs. the Kindle. Now the battleground is shifting to television. Apple keeps rolling out new devices to control how consumers interact with screens of different sizes. What the world really needs is a smart, stretchable display material so people could adjust their screen to whatever … Continue reading “Apple Vs. Amazon Battle Continues: Adventures in TV Land”

U.S. Innovation and Entrepreneurship Council Quietly Holds First Meeting in DC, Starting with Steve Case-Hosted Dinner

It’s a big day for U.S. innovation strategy. The National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship is holding its first official meeting at the Department of Commerce in Washington, DC, today—and Xconomy has some exclusive details. The council, made up of 26 national leaders in business, technology, and academia, is charged with helping the Obama … Continue reading “U.S. Innovation and Entrepreneurship Council Quietly Holds First Meeting in DC, Starting with Steve Case-Hosted Dinner”

Spinout Doctors: How New Venture Partners Saved Freescale’s Magnetic Memory and Other Stranded Technologies

Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory, or MRAM, promises to change everything about how our computing devices work. It’s as fast as classical static RAM at the core of today’s microprocessors, but it doesn’t wear out, and it also holds data permanently, even when the power is off, like today’s flash memory. It could enable true “instant-on” … Continue reading “Spinout Doctors: How New Venture Partners Saved Freescale’s Magnetic Memory and Other Stranded Technologies”

Heartflow Obtains $14,116,022 New Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7e8db487-40cf-4de3-9be4-64fbf99e9bb2&Preview=1 Date 9/2/2010 Company Name Heartflow Mailing Address 1700 Seaport Blvd. Redwood City, CA 94063 Company Description The company is developing unspecified cardiovascular technologies. Website Undisclosed Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $14,116,022 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. SEC regulatory filing. M&A Terms Venture Investor Undisclosed

Inflection Garners $30,000,000 Series A Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=38d22e2f-56b7-4924-a03c-73c8e817c6e4&Preview=1 Date 9/2/2010 Company Name Inflection Mailing Address Undisclosed Palo Alto, CA 94301 Company Description The company operates a people-oriented search engine. Website http://www. Inflection.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $30,000,000 Transaction Round Series A Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. M&A Terms Venture Investor Matrix Partners Venture Investor Sutter … Continue reading “Inflection Garners $30,000,000 Series A Financing”

NetBooks Obtains $400,000 New Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=9c9d10d0-91aa-4f3f-95c3-7a8a38058c69&Preview=1 Date 9/2/2010 Company Name NetBooks Mailing Address 475 Sansome Street San Francisco, CA 94111 Company Description We’ve taken the best practices from all these thousands of businesses and incorporated them into NetBooks. To help you get the most out of it, we deliver an unheard of level of personalized support. Everyone … Continue reading “NetBooks Obtains $400,000 New Financing”

Cisco Systems Acquires Arch Rock for Undisclosed Sum

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1ad82970-7eb2-4675-b779-e02c65489777&Preview=1 Date 9/2/2010 Company Name Arch Rock Mailing Address 501 2nd St. San Francisco, CA 94107-4132 Company Description Arch Rock Corporation is a software, systems and services company, developing products that support wireless sensing and control networks. Website http://www.archrock.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Proceeds Purposes M&A Terms Financial … Continue reading “Cisco Systems Acquires Arch Rock for Undisclosed Sum”

Innovators in Boston, San Diego, San Francisco, Northwest Top World Economic Forum’s List of Technology Pioneers

The World Economic Forum—the body behind the exclusive annual gathering in Davos, Switzerland—today released its “Technology Pioneers” list for 2011. An unusually large number of the companies on the list (11 out of 31) are located in or near Xconomy’s home cities—see the rundown below. For the Pioneers list, the WEF singles out companies that … Continue reading “Innovators in Boston, San Diego, San Francisco, Northwest Top World Economic Forum’s List of Technology Pioneers”

Party Like It’s 1999: 10 Old Tech Ideas That Are New Again

Timing is everything—especially in the tech world. If you follow trends in technology, science, or business for long enough, you realize there are very few new ideas. Instead, the combination of the right idea with the right timing and execution is usually the key to success in any field. Look at all the snazzy tech … Continue reading “Party Like It’s 1999: 10 Old Tech Ideas That Are New Again”

VMware Adds Integrien and TriCipher to Up Its Cloud Computing Power

[Updated, 9/1/10 at 12:00pm. See below.] VMware (NYSE: [[ticker:VMW]]), the Silicon Valley virtualization unit of Hopkinton, MA-based storage giant EMC (NYSE: [[ticker:EMC]]), announced at its annual conference in San Francisco that it had scooped up two IT startups to add to its cloud computing infrastructure. The company bought Irvine, CA-based Integrien, a maker of real-time … Continue reading “VMware Adds Integrien and TriCipher to Up Its Cloud Computing Power”

Saving Stranded Technologies: Talking with Spinout Expert David Tennenhouse at New Venture Partners

The “two guys in a garage” story of how technology companies get started is a powerful one in Silicon Valley. And it does happen: there really was a garage at Hewlett-Packard in the 1930s, Apple in the 1970s, and Google in the 1990s. The Mountain View, CA-based Y Combinator startup incubator, where most companies consist … Continue reading “Saving Stranded Technologies: Talking with Spinout Expert David Tennenhouse at New Venture Partners”

Will the Stem Cell Ruling Affect Venture Capital Investing?

Last week’s federal district court ruling ordering an immediate halt in federal funding for stem cell research has thrown academic research circles into a state of confusion. This has caught the attention of the VC community, as the venture-backed biotech world is largely dependent on technology developed in academic institutions, and the cutting-edge research produced … Continue reading “Will the Stem Cell Ruling Affect Venture Capital Investing?”

UpTake Networks Lands $2,781,724 New Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=94490aa3-9725-4e48-873f-218dee77e0d2&Preview=1 Date 9/1/2010 Company Name UpTake Networks Mailing Address 654 High Street Palo Alto, CA 94301 Company Description UpTake.com is a travel search and discovery site – the first step for travelers to decide where to go, where to stay or what to do. We help users make informed decisions about what … Continue reading “UpTake Networks Lands $2,781,724 New Funding Round”

SocialDeck is Latest Ingredient in Google’s Recipe For A Social Platform to Rival Facebook; Reviewing the List, From Aardvark to Zynga

The latest addition to the budding Google social-and-gaming empire is SocialDeck, the maker of cross-platform social games such as Color Connect, Pet Hero MD, and Shake & Spell. The Waterloo, Ontario-based startup—which has also built a platform called Spark that lets game developers connect players on iPhones, BlackBerry devices, and Facebook—announced that it’s joining the … Continue reading “SocialDeck is Latest Ingredient in Google’s Recipe For A Social Platform to Rival Facebook; Reviewing the List, From Aardvark to Zynga”

Citrix Buys VMLogix

Palo Alto, CA-based VMLogix, which makes systems that virtualize large software lifecycle management and quality assurance programs, will be acquired by Fort Lauderdale, FL-based Citrix Systems (NASDAQ: [[ticker:CTXS]]), the larger company announced last night. Terms of the purchase, which is expected to close in the third quarter, were not disclosed. Citrix said that the acquisition … Continue reading “Citrix Buys VMLogix”

IVP Closes $750M Fund

Institutional Venture Partners in Menlo Park, CA, said today that it has finished raising limited-partner investments for its 13th fund, Institutional Venture Partner XIII, at $750 million. That’s significantly larger than the late-stage investor’s last fund, a $600 million fund closed in 2007. IVP invests in digital media, communications and wireless technologies, and enterprise information … Continue reading “IVP Closes $750M Fund”

Udemy Collects $1 Million to Expand Casual Learning Platform

Great teachers prepare their students to be lifelong learners, even after they leave the classroom. And judging from the $9 billion that Americans spend each year on “casual learning” products—that is, courses, conferences, seminars, DVDs, self-help books, and other forms of instruction outside of formal educational institutions—they may be succeeding. One small company tapping that … Continue reading “Udemy Collects $1 Million to Expand Casual Learning Platform”

Udemy Secures $1,000,000 New Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7e25b492-9a1b-4746-ae72-f6ef2ca39078&Preview=1 Date 8/31/2010 Company Name Udemy Mailing Address Undisclosed Undisclosed, CA 94300 Company Description Udemy is a website that enables anyone to create an online course. Our goal is to provide our teachers with everything they could possibly need to create a great learning experience over the internet. Founded in 2008, we’ve … Continue reading “Udemy Secures $1,000,000 New Round”

CA Technologies Acquires Arcot Systems for $200,000,000

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0b4cac72-eca7-41f3-9b6c-f08b0f1bdfb9&Preview=1 Date 8/31/2010 Company Name Arcot Systems Mailing Address 455 West Maude Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94085 Company Description We are the world’s market leader in 3-D Secure software and services, providing multi-layered authentication to 11,000 card-issuing banks, 25,000 online merchants, and their customers. Website http://www.arcot.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount $200,000,000 Transaction … Continue reading “CA Technologies Acquires Arcot Systems for $200,000,000”

Greplin Receives $700,000 New Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ef3ce55c-cbd1-48a3-9d99-20a04f986c43&Preview=1 Date 8/31/2010 Company Name Greplin Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94123 Company Description The company provides an online personal search service. Website http://www.greplin.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $700,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. M&A Terms Venture Investor SV Angel Venture Investor Individual Investor

Calsys Obtains $1,000,000 New Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7d75d867-3491-4898-99af-dc5c1f236223&Preview=1 Date 8/31/2010 Company Name Calsys Mailing Address 2700 Augustine Dr. Santa Clara, CA 95054 Company Description Headquartered in Silicon Valley, CalSys focuses on network video market with patent-pending technologies. Our unified digital video surveillance platform is configurable to be number of product lines including Digital Video Recorder (DVR), Network Video Recorder … Continue reading “Calsys Obtains $1,000,000 New Funding”

VMWare Acquires TriCipher for Undisclosed Sum

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=01f2392d-fb2d-49f3-bee4-23f32b685e4b&Preview=1 Date 8/31/2010 Company Name TriCipher Mailing Address 750 University Avenue Los Gatos, CA 95032 Company Description TriCipher enables business processes and online products to be delivered through web portals at a lower risk, higher convenience and lower cost than ever before. Website http://www.tricipher.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round … Continue reading “VMWare Acquires TriCipher for Undisclosed Sum”

I Can Has Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh Publicly Offers to Buy Reddit from Condé Nast

[Updated with comments from Reddit co-founder Steve Huffman, 6:35 pm] I Can Has Cheezburger‘s Ben Huh extended an offer to purchase Condé Nast’s online user-generated news aggregation site Reddit.com last week, amidst an online debate over politically controversial advertising, according to VentureBeat. In a post on the Seattle-based humor network’s pop culture site, The Daily … Continue reading “I Can Has Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh Publicly Offers to Buy Reddit from Condé Nast”

Puzzling Out Paul Allen’s Patent Suit Against Silicon Valley’s Giants

There’s something odd about the patent infringement lawsuit that Paul Allen’s holding company Interval Licensing filed last week against an array of high-profile Silicon Valley and e-commerce companies. The organization, which is part of the Microsoft co-founder’s large array of Seattle-based business and technology ventures, isn’t saying exactly how it thinks the defendants—AOL, Apple, eBay, … Continue reading “Puzzling Out Paul Allen’s Patent Suit Against Silicon Valley’s Giants”