From Xfund to ex-fund? A venture capital fund with a pedigree that stretches back five years and to Harvard Square may be teetering on the edge of extinction, as an unusual degree of hostile, and now public, disputes between its two partners continue to rage....
On the consumer end of an eCommerce transaction – these days clicking the buy buttons is usually the end of the road, one way or the other. Usually, the transaction goes through – the widget goes into the mail and everyone goes to bed happy....
All great love affairs come to an end. On Wall Street, they come to a very public end. Famed investor Carl Icahn and Apple have broken up. In news reported by various outlets on Thursday (April 28), the activist investor told CNBC that his worries...
Unicorns are one thing. Unicorns on steroids are quite another. As is well known by now, Ant Financial, the Chinese micro-lending Internet player, has raised a whopping $4.5 billion in its latest financing round, a tidy sum above the $3.5 billion it had initially been...
Advertisers face something of an unusual problem at the 2010s are past the halfway mark and roaring away toward the ’20s. Consumers have a screen in their pocket at all times – and, even better, a screen that is digital and connected to the Web and...
Using Google Glass, a health care startup has seen its way to a new round of funding. Reuters reports that Augmedix — a San Francisco-based company that relies upon Alphabet Inc.’s connected eyewear to provide doctors and other health care professionals with medical transcripts (such as...
Unlockd, a mobile ad startup that promises to bring down phone bill costs, has raised $12 million in Series A funding. The startup partners with cellphone companies to push mobile ads to users’ Android phone screen. In return, the subscribing users get a discount on their...
PayPal is throwing its weight behind a mobile app called Acorns Grow by leading its $30 million funding round. Acorns is designed to help young investors get into the game by enabling them to deposit small amounts that automatically goes into a brokerage account that...
A year can make a big difference to how the world sees a business model. A year ago it seemed every entrepreneur was looking to be the “Uber of” something, and every VC with a checkbook and a functioning pen seemed willing and at the...
