Connie Loizos
Rafey Habib, an English professor at Rutgers University who writes poetry about the world’s most pressing issues, has authored a poem titled, simply, “Facebook.” Somehow, I don’t think it will endear Dr. Habib to Mark Zuckerberg. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjgPrsTkxj0&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Felitestv%2Ecom%2Fpub%2F2009%2F05%2Ftamir%2Dsapir%2Dwho%2Dis%2Dhe&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington has been writing lately about the “disgusting” practice of hand-shaking, even noting that one “brave” company, OpenCandy, tweeted about a board meeting where, in reaction to his recent editorials, no one shook hands but employed fist-bumps instead. Tweeted Bessemer Ventures partner David Cowan: “Arrington makes sense: Hand Shaking Is So Medieval. Let’s End It.” […]
Just back from a few days away and I’m thinking about putting together some information for readers about strategic investors, or corporate VCs, or whatever you’d like to call them. Specifically, I’m looking for the inside dope about which investors are helpful, and which might actually hurt a startup’s prospects, according to you, VC and CEO […]
Deal-making may have fallen off a cliff, but buyout shops, VCs, and companies looking ahead with thoughts of expanding into new markets should probably pay much closer attention to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) than they have in past years. The antibribery provisions of the FCPA have, since it was enacted in the […]
Software whiz Peter Norton is now trying to sell two lavish pads in Manhattan, but he's not having much luck.
Norton, creator of Norton Utilities, this week lowered the price of his 4,415 square-foot, 4-bedroom, 6.5-marble-bath condo, on the 45th floor of the Trump International on New York’s Upper West Side. The price is now $17.9 million after being listed for $16.25 million back in January.
What? Too small for you? Norton and his downstairs neighbor -- mogul Richard Ullman, who’s been trying to sell his own 4,415-square-foot condo for $18.5 million -- will also sell you their condos as a would-be duplex if you don’t mind coughing up $34.7 million first. Okay, and $277,068 per year in monthly maintenance charges. But think of all
Atomico Ventures is ready for blast-off, according to a new regulatory filing. The early-stage venture capital fund spearheaded by Skype cofounders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis is looking to raise the strangely precise amount of $266 million, with the help of San Francisco placement agent Probitas Partners.
The fund -- incorporated in the tax-neutral jurisdiction of Grand Cayman island -- has yet to secure any commitments, according to the filing. The team is apparently pretty confident about how quickly it will do so, though. The filing states that the offering to LPs, who are being asked for a minimum investment of $13.3 million, will be available for no longer than one year.
Almost immediately after the Silicon Valley gossip site Valleywag reported that Twitter might be in acquisition talks with Apple, everyone jumped on the rumor, from traditional media like the New Zealand Herald to United Press International to – ahem – Reuters (peHUB's parent). So did blogs like All Things Digital, Ubergizmo and Mashable. (In defense of the blogs, they mostly splashed cold water on the latest round of “late-stage negotiations” involving the microblogging startup.)
I saw so much talk about the company Tuesday that I took a quick look through Google News in an attempt to measure the impact of Valleywag’s story. Know how many related news articles popped up? Fully 140, 84 of them in U.S.-based outlets. That search prompted me to conduct a few others, first on Factiva, which aggregates many -- but by no means all -- news sources, and then on Google Trends, a relatively new search index.
The blue-eyed, blonde trophy wife may bring more to the table than meets the eye. Dr Abigael San, a chartered clinical psychologist, tells the London Times today that not only are blonde hair and blue eyes classically beautiful but that Westerners associate the combination with wholesomeness and truth — both of which have been in […]
Former VP Al Gore is accustomed to vigorous heckling from the conservative right, but even he might be surprised by the attention that has focused on him since he was questioned before Congress last month about his motivation to support cap-and-trade legislation.
As many readers will already know, Republican Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn's widely watched request for “some clarity” owed to Gore’s role as a partner at the “capital firm” Kleiner Perkins, one of the most active green tech investors in the country. The position could translate into some big paydays for Gore, she noted.
Gore responded by telling Blackburn that not only has he been working to raise awareness about global warming for 30 years but that “every penny” he has made from his renewable energy investments, as well as from his book and movie, both titled “An Inconvenient Truth,” have
Gist, a year-old, Seattle-based startup incubated at Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital, just raised a hefty, $6.75 million Series A, led by Brad Feld’s Foundry Group, with participation from Vulcan. The startup, in closed beta right now, aims to integrate Microsoft and Outlook “intelligently,” aggregating, organizing and prioritizing emails, links and related information about one’s contacts, […]