Britain’s best and brightest startups hit Silicon Valley next week for funding

Britain’s best and brightest startups hit Silicon Valley next week for funding

If you’ve never heard of Dragon’s Den, it’s a popular British TV reality series, where entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to get funding from business experts — the “Dragons”. One of those Dragons, Doug Richard, a UK-based Californian and founder of investment research firm Library House… Continue Reading

Roundup: Yahoo’s internet cafes, Smartshopper’s backflip, and more

Roundup: Yahoo’s internet cafes, Smartshopper’s backflip, and more

1) Yahoo launches brick-and-mortar internet cafes in Vietnam
2) Mozilla Corp., maker of the popular Firefox web browser, made $66 million in revenue in 2006
3) The internet still probably won’t be taxed in the US, through 2014
4) Adware company Zango buys comparison shopping service Smartshopper, a… Continue Reading