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RSS capital in newseBay's Skype sale gets green light
News Zennström and Friis will take a 14 per cent stake in Skype, in return for contributing Joltid software and "significant capital investment". eBay has announced today that the sale of its controlling stake in VoIP service... [06 Nov 2009]
UK software industry - alive and kicking
News While the US has ready-made communities of developers working together with leading universities to secure investment, British software developers often struggle much more to gain access to venture capital funding. [23 Oct 2009]
Keeping IT green in tough times
News Green IT projects that require a significant capital expenditure are the ones that have been hardest hit by the recession. Building greener datacentres may be worthwhile in terms of sustainability but it requires... [22 Oct 2009]
Why CIOs are saying no to Macs
News Alastair Behenna, CIO at recruitment company Harvey Nash, said: "Unfortunately, the issue wouldn't be one of acceptance by IT but merely a reflection of the cost of implementation and the 'shock and awe' impact on my board when I... [02 Oct 2009]
'New tech? Not for me': CIOs running scared in the recession
News CIOs' reluctance to invest in new technology is unsurprising given the ongoing downturn, however - with European enterprises decreasing their 2009 IT operating budgets by two per cent and IT capital budgets by one per... [02 Oct 2009]
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]
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 company blog on... [28 Sep 2009]
HP welcomes Marc Andreessen to board
News Since then, Andreessen, best known as the co-founder of Netscape, has helmed social network creation service Ning, and a new venture capital firm Andreessen-Horowitz. Two years after selling his software company to HP,... [18 Sep 2009]
eBay sells most of Skype in $2bn deal
News The Andreessen Horowitz venture capital group was launched in July by Marc Andreessen, the founder of Netscape and co-founder of Opsware, and Ben Horowitz, also co-founder of Opsware. Ecommerce giant eBay announced on... [01 Sep 2009]
eBay set to hang up on Skype?
News The investment group will reportedly include Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital group launched in July by Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape and co-founder of Opsware, and Ben Horowitz, also co-founder of Opsware. [01 Sep 2009]
Singularity University: Where today's tech titans teach the next generation
News This group project, which aims to flip the car sharing movement on its head and bring affordable transportation to the masses, started less than two weeks ago but has already won a prize and attracted venture capital... [21 Aug 2009]
Looking for a safe IT job? SMEs could be the answer
News According to Forrester, European SMEs are more likely to cut their tech spending than their large enterprise cousins - 32 per cent of SMEs are reducing their IT operating budget this year with 28 per cent also lowering IT... [19 Aug 2009]
Microsoft makes 'emergency' appeal to halt Word injunction
News Already, Microsoft is expending enormous human and financial capital to make its best effort to comply with the district court's 60-day deadline," Microsoft said in the appeals court motion. Microsoft on Tuesday asked an... [19 Aug 2009]
Inside Caffeine: Google's shot in the arm for search results
News This was perhaps what Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz had in mind as she reviewed what it would cost to just maintain Yahoo's current search commitment, let alone a renewed effort to gain share: Yahoo expects to save a ton in... [12 Aug 2009]
Twitter blackout confirmed as denial-of-service attack
News Now, a few million dollars of venture capital later, the service is far more stable. Twitter was inaccessible for several hours on Thursday, followed by a period of slowness and sporadic timeouts, and more outright... [06 Aug 2009]
