Editor's Pick Mobile monetization is separating the industry into the haves and have-nots.
The up-and-coming tech hubs include New York, Los Angeles, and Atlanta.
Private company research firm Privco has ranked the top 20 merger and acquisitions of the top 20 technology VC firms of 2012, including Ancestry.com's $1.6 billion sale to private equity firm Permira and other top tech acquisitions such as Yammer, Meebo, Instagram, and NextG networks.
Intel Capital comes out on top.
In 2012, 2,357 private technology companies were bought for a combined total of $84 billion, according to a new report from research firm PrivCo. That's slightly up 22 percent from 2011, but the real surprise is who is doing the acquiring.
Jack Dorsey is about to be a billionaire — on paper, at least.
The Twitter creator will be catapulted to billion-dollar-man status when his payments startup Square closes a $200 million funding round at a $3.25 billion valuation, as the …
SpaceX’s successful docking into the International Space Station may have ushered in a new era of spaceflight, but the success of the trip also bumped the company’s valuation into a higher orbit.
SpaceX made history last week when it became …
We’ve got a look at the full schedule of Facebook’s IPO roadshow, the event where the social network travels the country and shows off its company to investors and banks in anticipation of going public.
On Monday, Facebook kicked off …
Facebook will officially start courting investors and kick off its IPO roadshow next week in a one-month run-up to a late-April offering, multiple sources close to the company have said.
This revelation comes from financial data analysis company PrivCo, which …
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Digital pin-board site Pinterest is scorching hot. People are pinning like crazy. Publishers are benefiting from an uptick in Pinterest-driven traffic. And venture capitalists are tripping over themselves to get a piece of the social property.
But does all this …
Reviews website Yelp debuted today on the New York Stock Exchange at $15 a share and closed the day at $24.52, a 63% gain from the original price.
It was questionable how well Yelp would perform, considering the company earned …
Facebook’s newest advertising product, expected to be unveiled on Feb. 29, leaked to the web yesterday. The ads themselves would appear to be a natural evolution of the company’s primary money-making business, but perhaps there’s more to these new sponsored …
Social games company Zynga’s stock ended its second day of trading on the Nasdaq exchange down nearly 5 percent, a signal of turbulent times ahead for the value of the company.
Zynga’s stock closed on Friday at $9.50 a share, …
Zynga’s stock sank 5 percent yesterday, from $10 to $9.50, on its first day of trading. Some investors might feel like the stock will bounce back on Monday or in the weeks ahead. But at least one analyst is staying …
Zynga made some changes to its accounting and disclosed new stock repurchases, setting off alarm bells at one analyst firm that studies the value of private companies.
It seems like a small accounting change, but it shifted Zynga’s last financial …
There’s a reason why Google seems like it’s in a big rush to get games up and running on its Google+ social network. That’s because games are the way that Google will put financial pressure on Facebook.
This may seem …
