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[Stefanie Dhanda is senior vice president at Boston-based Stonebridge Associates, LLC, a FINRA/SIPC registered investment bank.]
While acquisition activity among medium-sized companies is returning to near-normal levels, today’s transaction landscape has undergone epic changes. The dynamics have shifted as buyers …
Internet behemoth AOL announced today that it has hired Biz Stone, cofounder of white-hot microblogging service Twitter, as a “social impact advisor.”
The move, which comes a week after AOL closed its deal to acquire popular blog and news aggregator …
Venture Capitalists are increasingly optimistic about the immediate future of investing in Silicon Valley. Their confidence registered 3.75 on a 5 point scale, with 5 indicating high confidence and 1 indicating low confidence, according to the quarterly Silicon Valley Venture …
Search behemoth Google is back on the prowl again, today snapping up microblogging Twitter recommendation service Fflick for around $10 million, the companies confirmed this morning, one being an unnamed source at Google.
An official Google spokeswoman refused to comment, …
Successful exit activity for venture-backed companies rose 25 percent in 2010 from the previous year, reaching levels close to those seen before the recession and netting $39 billion in liquidity for 514 companies, according to a study released today by …
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[Peter Yared is the vice president of apps at Webtrends, which acquired Transpond, a social-apps developer he founded.]
For all the money Google has thrown at MySpace over the years, the search giant of Mountain View might as well have …
German business social networking site Xing has acquired Amiando, an online event management and ticketing services company, for around 10.3 million euros, as the “German LinkedIn” attempts to engage its more than 10 million members more actively.
Xing is the leading …
AOL, at one time a leading Internet service provider, is looking to spin-off its dial-up operations and merge the remainder of the company with Yahoo, according to a report by Reuters.
This isn’t the first time rumors of a deal …
It’s official: Groupon makes a ridiculous amount of money. In fact, it makes more than enough to reject Google’s offer, worth somewhere between $5 billion and $6 billion, to buy the daily-deal company.
Groupon has reportedly called off the massive …
Google’s not the only one getting into the increasingly lucrative online group buying business. LivingSocial has just scored a $175 million investment from Amazon.com, a deal whose possibility was first reported by VentureBeat last month.
The company is a major …
Media titan Barry Diller said he is stepping down as CEO of media conglomerate InterActive Corp today.
This has been a long time coming. Diller initially made his name buying and selling properties, frequently reshaping his company’s focus, from movies …
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(Editor’s note: Jeff Bussgang is a General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners. This column originally appeared on his blog Seeing Both Sides.)
In undiluted tellings of the tale, the Big Bad Wolf devours Little Red Riding Hood before running off …
Apple taught the tech world that going vertical — where a company owns many of the critical technology ingredients that it uses in its products — can result in big payoffs. Products like the iPhone and iPad are made with …
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(Editor’s note: David Millard is Chair of the Business Department of Barnes & Thornburg LLP. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.)
As with many other industries, the days since the 2008 crash have been “dog days” for the venture capital …
Buying Android Inc., the wireless-software startup founded by Andy Rubin, was Google’s “best deal ever,” said David Lawee, vice president of corporate development at the search giant.
Lawee made the remark at a panel at the 16th annual Stanford Accel …
Investors interested in grabbing a piece of the white-hot social buying sector threw more money into the space today, as shopping recommendation site ShopSocially announced $1.1 million in first round financing, and Spanish coupon site Groupalia locked down €5 million …
The game of musical chairs in the executive suite at Second Life parent company Linden Lab continued today, as founder Philip Rosedale, who had been serving as interim CEO since June, announced he was stepping down from the job immediately.…
Mobile gamers have become obsessed with small, pudgy and vehemently Angry Birds — mostly playing a game that sends them flying into walls and watching the sparks fly. So much so that Electronic Arts has decided to acquire the game’s …
Online daily deal site LivingSocial announced today that it has acquired social adventure company Urban Escapes in a bid to give members more bang for their buck as they search for activities that fit their lifestyles without breaking the bank.…
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(Editor’s note: Megan Jones is a Director at Hadley Partners. A modified version of this story appeared on the company’s blog.)
For any industry in which scale is important – especially ones like media or consumer technology – consolidation …
