Investors bet less on video games The Boston Globe | Recession or no recession, Boston-area video game companies are attractive to venture capitalists - the investors who fund much of their growth. | "I would argue there's probably a little too much capital'' available for game developers, said Alex Finkelstein, a general partner at the Boston inves...
Japan Airlines to stay with American Airlines Business Report | Submit your comment | Japan Airlines, after declaring bankruptcy last month, has decided to keep its current tie-up with American Airlines and end talks to defect to Delta Air Lines, local media reported on Monday. | US giants American Airlines and Delta Air Lines have been competing to tak...
Venture-Capital Firms Caught in a Shakeout Wall Street Journal By PUI-WING TAM | The technology bubble popped a decade ago, but the venture-capital industry that helped finance the boom stayed largely intact. Now venture-capital firms are going through their own brutal culling. | Venture firms are struggling to ...
How Pandora slipped past the graveyard CNET | By Claire Cain Miller | cnet_news406:http://news.cnet.com/How-Pandora-slipped-past-the-graveyard/2100-1027_3-6250494.html | Tim Westergren recently sat in a Las Vegas penthouse suite, a glass of red wine in one hand and a truffle-infused Kobe beef ...
How Pandora Slipped Past the Junkyard The New York Times | OAKLAND, Calif. — Tim Westergren recently sat in a Las Vegas penthouse suite, a glass of red wine in one hand and a truffle-infused Kobe beef burger in the other, courtesy of the investment bankers who were throwing a party to court him. Pete...
Pandora Sees a Big Future: Heir to FM The New York Times | OAKLAND, Calif. — Tim Westergren recently sat in a Las Vegas penthouse suite, a glass of red wine in one hand and a truffle-infused Kobe beef burger in the other, courtesy of the investment bankers who were throwing a party to court him. Pete...
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With China's Rise Comes Economic Conflict With West The New York Times | DAVOS, SWITZERLAND - As recently as 2008, when China was still an emerging economy eager to put its best foot forward for Western consumers, it lifted censorship on several Web s...
Business Briefs The Oklahoman | nation | Housing market Remains risky WASHINGTON - The housing market stays a significant risk to the economy, data Wednesday showed, as bad weather across the country hammered t...
Start your small business by making sales USA Today Posted | Comment | Recommend | | | By Rhonda Abrams, USA TODAY Whenever I speak to a group of entrepreneurs or business school class on the topic of financing a new business, I ask the same question, "What's the best way to rais...
Tokyo pins IPO hopes on Dai-ichi Life bumper offer DNA India | TOKYO: IPOs don't get much larger than the $12 billion offering from Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co, Japan's second-biggest insurer, and optimism is running high that it will kickstart the country's moribund IPO market. | The IPO, po...
Calif. gov rivals exchange barbs over state's ills The Examiner Comments SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Map, News) - Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown promised to offer specifics about how to solve California's budget and other problems when he launched his bid for governor this week, but so far is offering onl...
Cisco's New Router Is All About Video The New York Times | Cisco has unveiled a new routing system that it claims can handle 12 times the traffic capacity of the nearest competing system. And it's all about the video. | The company in a much-hyped announcement this morning introduced the CRS-3, a router that can move up to 322 terabits per second - enough to download the entire printed collection of the ...
Pakistan risks IMF's $1.2bn Asia Times | By Syed Fazl-e-Haider | KARACHI, Pakistan - Islamabad's tardiness in naming a finance minister to succeed Shaukat Tarin, who resigned on February 23 to pursue his own business interests, may delay the release of US$1.2 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), part of a bailout package agree in November 2008. | President Asif Ali Zardar...
