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Grocery delivery service Instacart acqui-hires Wedding Party

Fresh off a $220 million funding round raised in January, grocery delivery service Instacart is putting that money to good use, allowing the company to make Read More

As IPO looms, Square adds Ruth Simmons to its board

Big things are happening at Square right now. As its founder and CEO tends to another company at the moment, Read More

Venture capital confidence is plummeting, hits two year low

By all accounts, things are going well for venture capitalists right now. Funds are raising more than they have in Read More

Tencent offers to buy Chinese online travel service eLong

The competition is heating up in China as Tencent, the second-largest Chinese Internet company, is looking to expand its horizons Read More

Daily funding roundup – August 3, 2015

Snapdeal has raised another $500 million in funding, according to a report from ReCode on Sunday. Investors included Chinese e-commerce giant Read More

Advance/Newhouse buys 1010data for $500M

There is a lot of talk about Big Data nowadays, but there is a big problem which is not being Read More

Ouch: Twitter stock closes under $30 for the first time

Things are looking a little bleak over at Twitter right now, as the company's stock has taken a dive on Read More

Microsoft picks up sales contest platform FantasySalesTeam

(Updated with comment from Microsoft) There has been a huge rise in the e-sports category in the last couple of years, including Read More

Snapdeal reportedly raises another $500M

When it comes to e-commerce in India, there seem to be two names that tower above everyone else" Snapdeal and Read More

M&A roundup – week ending 8/1/15

HP agreed to buy the Stackato business from ActiveState, a provider of enterprise development solutions. Terms of the deal were undisclosed.  Stackato is a Read More

Everywhere you look, celebrities are entering the tech world

Last year, in the run up to our Vator Splash LA event, we highlighted one of the most unique things Read More

Daily funding roundup – July 31, 2015

CarSpring, a London, UK-based online marketplace for pre-owned cars, raised $3.3 million in Series B funding. The company intends to use Read More

Meet Ben Ling, investment partner at Khosla Ventures

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

How does AOL make money?

AOL has had a strange life as a company. In the mid-90s, it was THE Internet service provider. Everyone was Read More

Bitcoin investments are on the rise, surpass all of 2014

(Updated with comment from CB Insight) Anecdotally, at least, Bitcoin seems to still be a space that investors either don't Read More

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