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The number of technology companies aged five years or younger has fallen to below 80,000, down from a high of 113,000 in 2001, according to a new report from the Kauffman Foundation, says Reuters.
(Reuters) - The price of the digital currency bitcoin slid to its lowest level in nearly two months on Monday after bitcoin digital marketplace Mt. Gox said a halt on withdrawals it announced on Friday would continue indefinitely after it detected "unusual activity."
A small Dutch company behind the Western world's first approved gene therapy priced its shares above the expected range in a U.S. stock offering on Wednesday, showing the current investor appetite for biotechnology.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Enterprise-software startup Domo has raised another $125 million in funding, it announced Wednesday, doubling the capital that investors have put into the company.
The Rubicon Project Inc, which provides online advertising services, filed with U.S. regulators on Tuesday to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering of its common stock, Reuters reported.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Regions around the world have long sought to replicate California's success in launching startups. Now, two venture capitalists have raised $250 million in a gambit to recreate some Silicon Valley-style growth in the U.S. Midwest.
Jan 31 (Reuters) - Online coupon company Coupons.com Inc filed with U.S. regulators to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering of its common stock.
Jan 28 (Reuters) - New York will propose regulating virtual currency firms that operate in the state this year and may require them to obtain a "BitLicense," state banking regulator Benjamin Lawsky said on Tuesday.
AOL Inc has agreed to buy Gravity, a company that tailors content according to the reader's interest, for $83 million, a move to help better target advertising the company said on Thursday.
Jan 22 (Reuters) - Zenefits, a human resources software company that is taking on industry giant Workday, said it had raised $15 million in financing led by venture firm Andreessen Horowitz.