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Facebook is on a mission to clean up your News Feed. First it got rid of memes, now you can say Read More

Jafco Ventures raises $260 million for fifth fund

Venture capital firm Jafco Ventures, which specialized in mid-stage investments, has raised a new $260 million fund, it was announced Read More

Amazon to pay employees up to $5000 to quit

Amazon is taking a note from Zappos and will henceforth pay employees to quit. Yeah. Remember that? How Zappos is Read More

Zendesk files for $150M IPO, buys Zopim for $30M

Two very big pieces of news from on-demand helpdesk Zendesk on Thursday: not only has the company made its first ever acquisition, Read More

What Changes Are Coming to the Oil and Gas Industry

In many countries throughout the world, oil and gas reserves are nationalized. This means that the government has full control Read More

Fundbox raises $17.5M to bring working capital to SMBs

Small businesses that need small loans don’t have a lot of options available to them, unless they want to put Read More

Cloud service marketplace AppDirect raises $35M

AppDirect, a cloud service marketplace and management company, has raised $35 million in Series C funding, the company announced on Thursday. The Read More

Facebook overhauls desktop ads: fewer but larger

I've been using Facebook for 10 years now (has it really been that long? Ugh, I'm getting old!) and I Read More

Dropbox debuts a slew of new products and features

Wednesday was a very big day for Dropbox, with the cloud storage company announcing a series of new products and Read More

Omada Health raises $23M for chronic disease prevention

For the first time in history, chronic disease now kills more people worldwide than infectious disease. In other words, where Read More

Q&A site Quora raises $80M in Series C funding

(Updated to reflect confirmation from Quora) There can be many reasons why a company raises money. Sometimes it needs the Read More

Alibaba spends $1.05B for 20% stake in Wasu Media

Another week, another big investment from Alibaba. As its U.S. IPO comes closer, the Chinese e-commerce giant seems to want Read More

Yelp expands Platform to include spas and salons

Last year, Yelp decided that it was sick of just being the site that told you where to go; it Read More

Can a CEO have opinions? Yes. The right opinions.

The Brendan Eich/Mozilla firestorm was over just as quickly as it started, but lots of questions remain. While tens of Read More

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