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Former MySQL boss joins Benchmark Capital
News Marten Mickos, the one-time chief executive of MySQL who left about a year after Sun Microsystems acquired the open source database company, has joined Benchmark Capital as an entrepreneur in residence. [01 Oct 2009]
Marten Mickos
AS Profile He recently joined venture group Benchmark Capital as entrepreneur in residence. Marten Mickos left MySQL, the open source database company founded in 1995, at the beginning of the year, less than 12... [29 Sep 2009]
Twitter secures "significant round" of funding
News Rowe Price, and existing investors, Institutional Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Benchmark Capital. It seems Twitter's megacash infusion is real. CEO Evan Williams confirmed on the... [28 Sep 2009]
Cisco ONS 15454 Multiservice Transport Platform
White Paper The Cisco ONS 15454 Multiservice Transport Platform sets the industry benchmark for Dense Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (DWDM) solutions by using proven Cisco Multiservice Provisioning Platform networking technologies... [08 May 2009]
Microsoft makes a Move on web TV
News In April, the American Fork raised $46m from a stellar line-up of investors, including Benchmark Capital, Cisco Systems, Comcast Interactive Media, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Steamboat Ventures. [26 Aug 2008]
Tech to get walkers back on streets of London
News Transport for London (TfL) says the system will boost public health and reduce stress on buses and the Tube by providing a benchmark to measure the success of schemes to promote walking. London is to use pedestrian... [08 Aug 2008]
Sun heats up open-source with MySQL buy
News Investors include Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, IVP, Intel, SAP and Red Hat. Sun Microsystems are to pay $1bn for MySQL, the maker of a popular open-source database. Sun said it will pay about $800m... [16 Jan 2008]
Will Apple's iPhone drive citywide wi-fi?
News Bill Gurley, a general partner at the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital, told conference attendees that the wi-fi enabled iPhone, along with RIM's newly announced Blackberry 8820... [24 Oct 2007]
Richard Snooks, CIO, Capital & Regional
Comment Now in benchmark reviews Capital & Regional compares favourably against others in the sector on the cost of IT ownership. Capital & Regional invests its own money in joint venture... [09 Jul 2007]
Google and Microsoft cuddling up to MySpace
News MySpace rival Bebo, popular with the under 20s, announced yesterday that it has received $15m in funding from a venture capital group Benchmark Capital Europe. Social networking giant... [23 May 2006]
Finjan secures $10m funding
News The round of investment was led primarily by Cisco with other investors, Benchmark Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners and Israel Seed Partners also contributing. Antivirus firm Finjan has secured a $10m... [16 Jun 2004]
Meta Group Quarterly: How regulation is driving IT strategy
Comment This is then followed up with a post-change benchmark to validate the improvement programme's goals. As seen from Dell's use of IT, general and administrative overheads can be one-third the industry's average as well as... [09 Oct 2003]
Oil giant Shell flogs own software company for $18m
News Venture capital firms Atlas Venture and Benchmark capital have effectively bought Kalido from Shell with their cash funding. Venture capitalists have secured a controlling stake in oil... [14 Jul 2003]
Microsoft forms Good partnership for handhelds
News Good Technology has received funding from first-tier venture capital firms such as Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as well as Benchmark Capital. John Doerr from Kleiner Perkins and... [07 Oct 2002]
eBoys serialisation - parts I to IV
News The anecdotes, the gambles, the billions and the bungles. All the excerpts, in one place. Serialisation: eBoys - Part 1 - Go Big or Go Home http://www.silicon.com/a52473 Serialisation: eBoys - Part 2 http://www.silicon.com/a52518 [11 Apr 2002]
