Funding Daily: Brain booster

Funding Daily will test the limits of your brain power today, so unless you have a deep understanding of 'flow processing,' make sure you bolster up with cognitive function enhancing foods.

Dell finally goes private in $24.4B deal as Microsoft chips in $2B loan

After months of speculation, Dell officially announced this morning that it will be going private in a $24.4 billion deal with founder Michael Dell and investment firm Silver Lake.

Microsoft may invest $1B to $3B to help Dell go private

Dell's not-so-secret attempt to go private is getting even more interesting.

How six Lolapps developers saved their last big game, Ravenshire Castle

Ravenshire Castle is launching today on Facebook. It is the final chapter in the Raven World series created by a team of developers at Lolapps, which was once on the top charts of Facebook gaming. The fact that Ravenshire Castle …

Silver Lake buys stake in Conduit, giving Israeli investors 200x return

Yozma Venture Capital is in talks to sell its share of Conduit, an Israel-based company that creates user engagement tools, for more than $200 million, Globes reported Thursday.

A source tells VentureBeat the buyer is Silver Lake, a U.S. private …