Online insurance agency Consumer United forms consumer groups to access deals and discounts on insurance.
A lot of decision-making and back-and-forth go into the deals that happen in startup world.
Spark Capital plans to close its oversubscribed $425 million fourth fund in two weeks.
We examined many investment issues at GamesBeat 2012. This week's DeanBeat distills them to the 10 most important.
Anticipating an explosion in mobile gaming in the next five years, investors say they are placing bets on what they see as the underserved market for iPad and tablet games.
“People say tablets have been overhyped…but I say they haven’t …
We’re pleased to announce that we have a panel on investing in the game business, one of the hottest investment categories of the past couple of years, at our annual GamesBeat 2012 conference on July 10-11 in San Francisco.
This …
Zynga’s rise to a social gaming juggernaut traded on the public markets—which now boasts a market cap roughly equal to long-established companies like Electronic Arts—highlights the rapid transformation of the gaming industry.
Boston’s Spark Capital, eager to tap the next …
Sad that Google’s online photo editor Picnik is meeting its demise this year? Well, veteran photo editing service Aviary is plotting to take its place. On Monday the company announced it’s bringing its photo editing services to the Web with …
RunKeeper, a small startup that makes a run- and workout-tracking platform, has raised an impressive $10 million second round of funding.
The money will give the company a shot at its greatest ambition: Becoming a widely-used platform for measuring, tracking …
Location-based social network Foursquare closed a new $50 million round of funding, the company reported today.
Foursquare said it will use the new funding to hire additional engineers, grow its merchant platform and expand internationally.
“The opportunity to build something …
