What venture capital drought? Chipmaker Achronix Semiconductor Corp. has just raised $52 million in a Series B funding round, one of the largest chip sector fundraisings of the year.... Continue Reading.
Shares of Epicor Software Corp. [EPIC] are up slightly on news that activist hedge fund Elliot Associates LP, which has launched a $529 million hostile bid, is taking the fight... Continue Reading.
No shock here, but an index that measures the confidence of venture capitalists (aptly named the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index) reached a new low in the third quarter.... Continue Reading.
Entrepreneurs backed by New York incubator Betaworks got an enviable opportunity Tuesday to pitch their startups to more than 50 of the best-known names in tech dealmaking from major media and advertising companies, established technology... Continue Reading.
Still independent three years after its chief rival Upcoming.org was acquired by Yahoo Inc., local event information distributor Eventful Inc. has taken in a new Series C round of funding... Continue Reading.
Anyone confused about why SanDisk Corp. would attempt to introduce a new physical medium for selling music will be doubly confounded, if not necessarily surprised, to learn that the company... Continue Reading.
Investors in Internet portal designer and content aggregator Synacor Inc. probably knew it was coming, but that probably didn't make the company's IPO withdrawal Tuesday any easier to swallow. The company, which... Continue Reading.
Shares of business software developer Epicor Software Corp. [EPIC] climbed nearly 6%, to $6.97, in afternoon trading Tuesday, following news Monday evening that the company rejected shareholder Elliott Associates LP's $565 million takeover offer.... Continue Reading.
The third-quarter data on venture fundraising is arguably old already, given all that's happened with the economy since the beginning of October, but for what it's worth, the latest data... Continue Reading.
Solar cell material developer Innovalight Inc. has added an extra $5 million to the $42 million it has already raised since the startup was founded in 2002. Innovalight is developing silicon ink-based... Continue Reading.
As a venture firm founded during the last gasp of the dot-com boom in April 2000, San Francisco's Azure Capital Partners got a crash course early on about rough economic... Continue Reading.
With much of America in belt-tightening mode, the timing could not have been better for personal savings adviser BillShrink.com to announce an $8 million Series B funding round. The round... Continue Reading.
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