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DroneDeploy raises $20M to let businesses leverage drones

Editor's Note: Our 6th Annual Vator Splash LA conference is coming up on October 13 at the Loews Hotel in Santa Monica. Speakers include Mark Cuban (one of Read More

ITC judge rules Fitbit didn’t steal Jawbone’s trade secrets

Updated with additional statement from Jawbone. For the second time in just a few months, the International Trade Commission has taken Read More

Pinterest acquires Instapaper from Betaworks

Pinterest has built its model around letting users collect things for later, as well as providing them with the kind Read More

The unlikeliest new faces of venture capital

One of the big news items this week was the announcement that NBA superstar Kobe Bryant had launched his own Read More

Facebook is testing News Feed video with autoplay sound

Updated with confirmation from Facebook I remember when it first came out that Facebook was going to put autoplay video ads onto Read More

Microsoft buys AI scheduling service Genee

Artificial intelligence is really coming into its own this year. Not only is funding way up, but the number of deals Read More

Meet your newest venture capitalist: Kobe Bryant

It's hard to even imagine a time when athletes weren't paid very much money, making it so that even the Read More

Bambi Francisco: On why startups should think long term

At Vator Splash LA 2015, Bambi Francisco Roizen, Founder and CEO of Vator, talked about how the private market is similar to Read More

Wall Street thinks Facebook stock will rise 20% by next year

While we watch Twitter struggle mightly lately, as its stock sinks down to new lows, it's instructive to look at Facebook Read More

M&A roundup – week ending 8/20/16

Univision acquired Gawker in a bankruptcy auction. The company bid $135 million. The deal includes Gawker.com, as well as the company's Read More

Meet Charles Hudson, Managing Partner at Precursor Ventures

There has been a big debate over the last few years over whether the Series A crunch is real or Read More

Lyft suspends its carpool pilot in the Bay Area

Lyft Line is working, but carpooling to work isn’t. The ridesharing company this week suspended the carpooling service it had Read More

Pandora may soon launch an on-demand service

Pandora was once the king of the music streaming space, but the company has started to lose its grip, and Read More

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