Would Google+ be a better social network if it were capable of auto-sorting your contacts into Circles? We might soon find out, because Google has acquired Katango, a maker of technologies to auto-organize friends into groups.
“Katango was founded a …
FindTheBest, the website filled with hundreds of charts comparing things like private schools and smartphones, has just raised funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers’ new sFund.
I wasn’t surprised that founder and chief executive Kevin O’Connor found a big-name …
Bing Gordon, a partner with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, says that his venture capital firm has to gear up for the coming tech boom. That’s one reason that his company hired famous Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker as a …
Here’s our roundup of the week’s tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:
Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook doesn’t make real profits, and that’s okay — Speaking at incubator Y Combinator’s Startup School event …
Is Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers’ social push coming too late? The venture firm just announced the creation of a $250 million sFund for investing in “social Web” startups, but 2010 seems like the wrong time to be jumping onto …
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said today that Facebook will probably never build games. He made the comment at a press conference today to announce a new $250 million sFund for social applications, a fund backed by VC firm Kleiner …
John Doerr, one of the best-known venture capitalists around and a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, announced the sFund today at a special event at Facebook headquarters. It’s a new fund that I speculated about last night. It …
