Nearly a week after the Wall Street Journal reported a hack on its own systems, parent company-owner Rupert Murdoch says there is still a problem.
Facebook’s IPO is being heralded in rather vague terms as the biggest tech IPO in history. But this initial public offering actually does break a few records, and not just in the tech sector.
This week, Facebook’s IPO will be …
Titanic 3D wasn’t the only thing that went down in Q1 2012. Startup funding, both the number of deals and the total amount raised, experienced a significant slouch in the beginning of the year.
Altogether, U.S. startups took $6.3 billion …
The data is in: The first quarter of 2012 was a roller coaster ride of initial public offerings and unexpected power-plays.
Twenty companies held IPOs, raising a total of $1.4 billion in the first three months of the year, according …
While the overall economy in 2011 was still on shaky ground, VCs continued to “make it rain” on startups in need of institutional funding.
According to data from Dow Jones, overall investment in newer companies showed a 10 percent year-over-year …
Don’t let the good times roll just yet, Silicon Valley: Analysts at Dow Jones are saying the effects of the 2008 economic crash still haven’t worn off for venture capitalists.
While U.S. VC funds finished the year with a strong …
Mergers, acquisitions and IPOs for venture-backed startups were down in 2011 by some metrics and up by others.
Overall, the year saw a 14 percent drop in deal activity between 2010 and 2011. Dow Jones VentureSource‘s data shows 522 total …
This year, a jittery global market, a tumultuous IPO window, sinking investor confidence have tested the startup bubble. Now, a new report shows venture capital funds, especially early stage-focused funds, are struggling to raise money to pass on to startups.…
In the past several months, more and more venture-backed companies have shied away from tumultuous U.S. market activity and have sought entry into in European and Asian exchanges instead.
According to new data from Dow Jones’ VentureSource, exactly half of …
Going through page after page of SEC filings is our idea of a fun time on a Saturday night. For the rest of you, there’s MarketBrief, which turns complicated SEC filings into short, simple news articles in about a second.…
A record number of companies delayed their initial public offerings this week in the wake of market upsets.
Following agency Standard & Poor’s downgrading of the U.S. credit rating from AAA to AA (and the subsequent stock market slide), many …
As the New York Stock Exchange saw major indices plummeting by five or six percent today, tech stocks dropped even further than many of their non-tech counterparts. The picture is especially clear if you look at the stock price changes …
The biggest question on every mind in Silicon Valley relates to our collective worst nightmare: Could a macroeconomic collapse trigger another dotcom-esque bust?
For at least one VC, Draper Fisher Jurvetson partner Tim Draper, the market for U.S. startups just …
Investor confidence in Silicon Valley slumped in the second quarter of 2011, according to the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index.
Although the index saw a year-over-year increase, the metric was lower than in the preceding three quarters, registering at …
As overall VC numbers leveled off in the second quarter, web apps and software continued to be sweet spots for investment through the first half of 2011.
According to data from Dow Jones, even as other sectors slumped, software, including …
