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Facebook beats the street, loses long time CFO Ebersman

Shares of Facebook are up a modest 2.5% in after-hours trading Wednesday, after the company posted first quarter results that Read More

Today’s Entrepreneur: Ramuel Maramara

Today's Entrepreneur is Ramuel Maramara, CEO and Founder of Brimes Energy, which has created the product Jellyfish, a machine that Read More

It’s official: Amazon wins after striking deal with HBO

It’s unofficially official: Amazon has won. It’s won the subscription video-on-demand wars, it’s won the content wars…it’s won the Internet. Read More

Communications provider CorvisaCloud raises $30M

A few months back I ordered a pizza from GrubHub. The order was an hour late, so you know what Read More

Social learning platform Declara raises $16M

My mother works in education and I talk to her all the time about what I think is wrong with Read More

WhatsApp reaches 500M users, but is growth slowing?

Remember when Facebook bought mobile messaging app WhatsApp for $19 billion, and its entire justification seemed to be "they'll have Read More

Majority of mobile users over 55 now own a smartphone

(Note: Nielsen report has been updated to reflect that number of Americans over the age of 55 applies only to Read More

AT&T is on the hunt for a Netflix killer

Just hours after Netflix trash-talked AT&T in its quarterly letter to shareholders, AT&T has announced a new $500 million joint Read More

Twitter opens native ads platform to all publishers

Twitter is pretty much taking an "all in" approach to advertising these days. In just the last year it has Read More

The new venture landscape

In May 2011, I wrote the post: Investor Nomenclature and the Venture Spiral. That post got a lot of attention because Read More

Today’s Entrepreneur: Tejal Shah

Today's Entrepreneur is Tejal Shah, CEO and Founder of KidAdmit, which allows online submission of school application and enrollment forms. Read More

Mitch Kapor: Oakland is on the ‘cutting edge’

On May 6, Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Development Corp, prolific angel and philanthropist, will take the stage at Splash Read More

Netflix to raise prices to cover ISP “tolls”?

Netflix shares rallied Tuesday morning, opening up 6.5% to $371. That’s after closing at $348.49 Monday evening. The company’s market Read More

Travel planning service Utrip raises $750k

Exciting news from today: I booked my vacation for this summer. I'm going to be spending a week in Texas Read More

Pinterest referral traffic shoots up 48% in Q1

This just in: it pays for brands to get their content onto social media! Ok, so maybe that is not Read More

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