Kleiner Perkins, Andreessen Horowitz team up to fund Google Glass apps

This new partnership between three Silicon Valley powerhouses seeks to capitalize on what could end up being Google's next big ecosystem after Chrome and Android.

Investor: Symantec and McAfee need to scrap anti-virus roots and pivot

Symantec and McAfee need to stop focusing on anti-virus software and start solving bigger problems or they run the risk of becoming obsolete, says KPCB's Ted Schlein.

The DeanBeat: After Zynga’s crash, game investments dive 42 percent in 2012

Game investments were red hot in the first half, but slowed after Zynga's sinking market value crushed valuations.

AppDynamics nets $50M from IVP, Greylock, & others to dominate app performance management

App performance management startup AppDynamics has raised $50 million from top-tier investors in its fourth round of funding, cash that will help the company expand and fight for more users.

Mary Meeker releases stunning data on the state of the Internet

Mary Meeker's huge, well-researched slideshows are a treasure trove of data on the state of the Internet. Here's her latest, with highlights called out by VentureBeat.

Is the technapolocalypse upon us as investments drop in Q3?

Venture capital investments declined in both dollars and deal volume this quarter, according to the latest TheMoneyTree report.

Harvard’s ‘wise men’ tell Silicon Valley: Our country is losing its competitiveness

An all-star panel, with Electronic Arts' CEO John Riccitiello and entrepreneurship professor William Sahlman, said the U.S. is falling behind in economic competitiveness.

How one startup CEO got kicked out of Y Combinator — then raised $1.5M from Kleiner Perkins

Jon Crawford is an entrepreneur with the dubious distinction of having been kicked out of Y Combinator. But rolling with the punches and continuing to fight for what he believed was right for his startup, he took a $1.5 million investment from VCs including Kleiner Perkins six months later. But how?

Vinod Khosla says technology will replace 80 percent of doctors — sparks indignation

Accomplished Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla likens modern healthcare to witchcraft, and says technology will replace 80 percent of doctors. His views, offered up in a talk last week in San Francisco, made doctors hopping mad. But criticisms were mostly knee-jerk. Khosla has a point.

Business is booming: KPCB will put up $100M for enterprise-focused startups

Major VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers will invest more than $100 million in new enterprise-facing startups.

Marketers, take off your mood rings: Affectiva raises $12M for emotion measurement technology

Affectiva absorbed $12 million in a third round of investment for its emotion measurement technology that helps brands and businesses gain insight about their consumers.

The company’s flagship products are Affdex, an automated facial coding platform, and Q Sensor, a …

Legendary game exec Bing Gordon on epic poems, the golden age of gaming, and Xbox as a platform

Former Electronic Arts exec and current Kleiner Perkins partner Bing Gordon was on-stage at MobileBeat 2012 today in San Francisco.

After opening unconventionally with a poem — actually not too bad, see below for full text — he, Dean Takahashi …

Funding Daily: It’s like the San Diego firework fiasco of investment

All the news that lay dormant surrounding the July 4th holiday exploded all at once today in the funding world. Sometime amidst the barbecuing and pool parties, major deals were struck involving massive amounts of money. The biggest story, juicier …

What no arbitration for Kleiner Perkins in the Ellen Pao sexual discrimination suit means

Judge Harold Kahn has denied a request by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers to go to arbitration in Ellen Pao’s gender discrimination lawsuit.

Reuters reports that lawyers for the venture capital firm tried to move to arbitration last month, but …

17 reasons to go to GamesBeat 2012

We’ve been writing a lot of posts about our speakers at GamesBeat 2012. But here’s a summary of why we think this is the must-attend game conference for you.

We’re gathering the industry’s top CEOs, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, investors, journalists, …