A handful of folks whose technical savvy, inventive spirit and business acumen helped to enliven the IT security industry. Along with the movers ...
Blackstone Group posts narrower 3rd-qtr loss; CEO says "the worst" of downturn is behind us Hedge fund and private equity firm The Blackstone ...
SEC files insider claims against San Francisco private equity executive, 6 others The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil lawsuit alleging insider trading Friday against the former chief financial officer of a San Francisco private equity fund and six others. The ...
Perfect World names private equity executive to board as independent director Perfect World Co., a Chinese online game developer, said Saturday it has named Daniel Dong Yang, of the private equity firm SAIF Partners, as independent director. Yang, a partner at SAIF ...
Gold Rush? When Bart Decrem went looking for office space in the spring of 2008 for his startup, Tapulous, Jeff Clavier opened his door. Clavier, the founder of venture capital firm SoftTech VC, saw enormous potential in the Tapulous software that would ...
WHO WILL BE THE GREEN VC GIANT? For nearly two decades, John Doerr and Vinod Khosla worked together at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, forging one of the most lucrative partnerships in the venture capital business. The gravel-voiced Doerr scored the high-profile ...
Syngenta's venture capital firm invests undisclosed amount in biotechnology company Metabolon Syngenta Ventures, the venture capital unit of agribusiness company Syngenta AG, said Tuesday it is investing an undisclosed amount in privately held biotechnology company Metabolon. Metabolomics develops technology sued to accelerate ...
Venture-capital investments slow during summer, but financing higher than in last 2 quarters Venture capitalists' investments in U.S. startups rose in the third quarter when compared with the first two quarters of the year, suggesting increased confidence in the economy. When compared ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The sudden death of star dealmaker Bruce Wasserstein on Wednesday has sparked questions about whether the magazines he nurtured will survive in their current form without him. Wasserstein, who died at the age of 61, considered journalism his ...
Pepsi Bottling Ventures to buy fellow bottler Pepsi Cola Bottling Co. of Conway-Myrtle Beach Pepsi Bottling Ventures LLC, a privately held bottler of Pepsi drinks, said Thursday it will buy Pepsi Cola Bottling Company of Conway-Myrtle Beach Inc. Pepsi Bottling Ventures said ...
AB InBev sells Central European operations for as much as $3 billion to reduce debt The world's biggest brewer AB InBev said Thursday it has agreed to sell its Central European operations to CVC Capital Partners in a transaction which could exceed ...
DUBAI (Reuters) - Private equity giant Blackstone Group's <BX.N> chief executive said the worst of the industry's problems had passed, with improved capital and equity markets finally providing an opportunity to do deals and sell existing investments through IPOs. Stephen Schwarzman also ...
