Dell is in talks to buy the IT management tools company Quest Software, Bloomberg reports, citing "people with knowledge of the matter." Quest in March had agreed to be acquired by investment firm Insight Venture Partners for $23 a share, or about $2 billion, and then earlier this month disclosed that [...]

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Representative Dan Lipinski, (D-IL), discusses the government's efforts to fund potential start-ups with tax dollars through The National Science Foundation I-Corps program.

Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) is not as much a computer maker as an odd sort of venture capital fund. The PC business is not a long-term winner. It is big, though, and the hope is that Dell can, over time, use profits, ...

May 23 (Reuters) - Solar power company Sunrun said it raised$60 million from a group of investors led by Madrone CapitalPartners to help the start-up develop software needed to cutcosts and simplify the ...

Sequoia Capital would be the latest Silicon Valley stalwart to tap into the region's growing economy.

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Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner Ellen Pao is suing the venture capital firm alleging sexual harassment and discrimination, according to a lawsuit filed earlier this month in California Superior ...

* Ellen Pao's lawsuit says harassment complaints ignored* Seeks damages, order against venture capital firmBy Sarah McBride May 22 (Reuters) - Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partnerEllen Pao is suing ...

THE VERDICT: Aereo, a startup that takes live TV broadcasts and sends them to mobile devices, has won a partial victory in court over the media companies that are suing it.WHAT'S LEFT: After a judge dismissed ...

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the blue-chip Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for its early investments in Google, is being sued by one of its investment partners who says she faced sexual ...

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Juniper Networks is taking a stake in Vidyo, in a move that supports an upstart player in the video conferencing business - a market where Juniper rival Cisco Systems has lately seen flagging performance. Terms were not announced; Juniper is investing as part of Vidyo's Series D venture round, which also [...]

By Sarah McBride May 22 (Reuters) - Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partnerEllen Pao is suing the venture capital firm for sexualharassment and discrimination, according to a lawsuit filedearlier this ...

One of Sequoia Capital's heavy hitters, Roelof Botha, praised Facebook, noting it had created an amazing platform with many businesses being built from it. He asked investors and entrepreneurs not to focus on the short-term and not to expect to sell their company for millions overnight.

CHICAGO ((MarketWatch) -- Silicon Valley venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers has been slapped with a sexual harassment and gender discrimination lawsuit , TechCrunch reports. The action ...

The networking concern takes a strategic investment. One provision of the deal: Vidyo gets integrated with Juniper gear.

With venture-capital investment flocking to social-media startups, who will back nascent startups innovating in such critical industries as material science, sensors, robotics, medical devices and life ...

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Last week, Towers Watson bought Extend Health, which allows retirees to choose from thousands of private Medicare plans according to their needs, instead of having their employer make the decision. Towers paid $435 million. One of the winners in that transaction was venture capital firm Psilos, which made in five [...]

FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) -- Greek banks expect to receive 18 billion euros ($23 billion) of recapitalization funds by Friday, news reports said Tuesday, citing Greek bank officials. The Hellenic Financial ...

Startups that are most successful at crowdfunding usually have a lot of things going for them, according to Scott Steinberg, a crowdfunding expert and author of the newly released "The Crowdfunding ...

Evernote, a U.S. mobile startup whose shareholders include NTT DoCoMo and Sequoia Capital, has no intention of being acquired and its owners have "no exit strategy", according to founder and ...

StyleSaint has secured $1.5 million from Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst and others to develop a new twist on the content-sharing craze.

Michael Moritz, a partner at Sequoia Capital and one of the most successful Silicon Valley venture capitalists during the early years of the internet, disclosed that he was suffering from what he described ...

May 22 (Reuters) - Moody's Assigns Aa2 Rating to the Stateof Wisconsin's $212.8 Million General Obligation 2012 Series A

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Meet Blueseed, which, after it sets out to sea in 2013, will be the first-ever sea-based tech incubator, according to its founder. This startup community space is being built for technologys best and brightest, ...

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Michael Moritz, a partner at Sequoia Capital, is scaling back on his day-to-day responsibilities because of a "rare medical condition," according to a letter he sent to investors on Monday, obtained ...

Michael Moritz Sequoia Capital's Michael Moritz is stepping down from day-to-day management of the venture firm he leads due to what the billionaire investor described in an email to the firm's investors as a "rare medical condition." Fortune notes that in the email, Moritz said his condition "can be managed but is [.. …

SAN FRANCISCO, May 21 (Reuters) - Mike Moritz, whorepresented Sequoia Capital in its investments in companies suchas Google Inc, PayPal and Yahoo Inc, isratcheting back his role due to a rare medical condition, ...

Leading venture capitalist has "rare medical condition."

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