Wall Street says ‘meh’ to Tim Cook’s fireside chat as Apple stock falls another $11 a share

"I'm very proud that we're out front, that we're changing people's lives, that we're doing what's right and just in moving the ball forward," Cook said today. "I don't mean to gush, but it's how I feel."

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaking live at Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet conference

The Apple CEO has a lot to say to investors. His company's stock has been ravaged by Wall Street in the past year, causing the company's valuation to drop over $200 billion in the last half-year.

Spotify’s rumored $100M round includes investments from Coca-Cola, Fidelity

While the rumor mill is heating up again with news that streaming music service Spotify is raising another round of funding, we're hearing new information about where the money is coming from.

Goldman Sachs: Biggest opportunities are in data, efficiency

The biggest opportunities for investors are in big data and efficiency.

That's the line coming from Scott Stanford, the co-head Internet banker of Goldman Sachs.

The inside story: How Facebook panicked and botched its IPO

There’s been a ton of coverage about the Facebook IPO disaster, but very little of it looks at the crucial point two weeks ago where things went terribly wrong. It’s becoming increasingly clear that Facebook itself made a strategic blunder …

Spotify is pressing play on a new $220M round at a $4B valuation

Streaming music service Spotify is currently seeking a new mega-round of funding that could more than triple the startup’s current valuation, according to a New York Times report.

Spotify was previously estimated to hold a $1 billion valuation after closing …

Video-sharing sensation Viddy rockets toward 30M users, banks $30M

Smoking-hot mobile video-sharing startup Viddy has closed a $30 million financing round and is fast-approaching 30 million registered users.

If you’ve taken a two-month hiatus from the Internet, then you’ve most certainly missed Viddy’s overnight comeuppance. The one-year-old company makes …

Nokia to dump world’s most ridiculous luxury-phone brand, Vertu, for $265M

Troubled phone-maker Nokia is attempting to unload its luxury mobile-phone brand, Vertu, for a reported $265 million (€200 million), the Financial Times is reporting. Nokia is being advised by Goldman Sachs on the deal and is currently in talks to …

Apple’s plans for its $90B in cash: “We’re not going to have a toga party”

Apple has the best kind of problem: A sizable $90 billion in cash burning a hole in its pocket.

At the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference Tuesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook was asked why the company has not taken …

Banks battle for $220M share of Facebook IPO

Green may be the color of money, but Wall Street bankers are only seeing blue — Facebook blue, that is.

The social network is poised to file its papers to become a public company in early 2012 — raising $10 …

Amazon may miss projected quarterly sales by $300M

Amazon stock stumbled today when a Goldman Sachs analyst estimated the company’s quarterly sales at $17.9 billion rather than the earlier estimate of $18.2 billion.

AMZN, which was trading on the NASDAQ as high as $178 earlier this week, briefly …

Medical appointment startup ZocDoc grabs another $25M from Goldman Sachs

Online doctor appointment startup ZocDoc on Thursday announced that is has raised an additional $25 million in third-round funding from Wall Street titan Goldman Sachs.

ZocDoc is shaking up the businesses of scheduling doctor appointments, as well as making doctors …

InMobi raises massive $200M to overtake Google in mobile ads (video)

InMobi, the four-year-old company that is second place globally in mobile advertising, has raised an astonishingly large $200 million round of funding from Softbank Corp.

The company’s goal is overtake Google as the world leader in the category.

InMobi, which …

Startup MarketBrief instantly analyzes & summarizes SEC filings

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.…

Facebook planning $100B IPO for early 2012?

Facebook is planning to file an initial public offering as early as October or November, according to a CNBC report. A filing at that time would most likely lead to an IPO in the first quarter of 2012, with a …