Start-Ups Follow Pinterest's Lead, Retailers Shut Facebook Stores, Michael Jordan Sues Chinese Sportswear Maker

Image via Wikipedia When you think of start-ups, AT&T (T) is not necessarily the first company that comes to mind. But thanks to Glenn Lurie's leadership, AT&T took the lead in connecting wireless devices by applying a key start-up principle -- high clock speed. Earlier this month, I interviewed Errol Arkilic of the National …

Wheelz, a college campus-based service that matches car owners with borrowers, has raised $13.7 million in Series A funding. What's particularly interesting is the lead investor: Zipcar.

TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- Zipcar Inc., the Cambridge, Mass., car-sharing network, led a $13.7 million Series A financing round for Wheelz Inc., a peer-to-peer car-rental network focused on college-campus ...

Cintas announces strategic alliance with ScanMD

Home Depot CFO Says Working Capital Boosts To Ebb

Ben Horowitz, of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, says rap holds lessons for tech entrepreneurs including how to fire an executive or stand up to difficult board members.

Manny Anekal, who headed up brand advertising for Zynga, has left the company. He's now chief operating officer at Kiip, a start-up that hands out "branded rewards" to mobile games players. Business ...

By Sarah McBride SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - When Jason Goldberg set out to raise a new round of funding for his flash sales site Fab.com, he dispensed with the usual PowerPoint presentations and instead ...

Seven start ups at the Startup Turkey conference in Antalya were invited to pitch their companies. The founders each have 30 seconds to tell us about what makes their start up so special.

PARIS, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Eiffage, France'sthird-largest listed construction group, said on Tuesday thatEiffarie, its joint venture with the funds of Australia'sMacquarie which owns the Paris-Rhine-Rhone ...

Ben Horowitz, of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, says rap holds lessons for tech entrepreneurs, including how to fire an executive or stand up to difficult board members.

Nine startups to present at Technologies Ventures Corp.'s equity symposium

Seven start ups at the Startup Turkey conference in Antalya were invited to pitch their companies. The founders each have 30 seconds to tell us about what makes their start up so special.

Seven start ups at the Startup Turkey conference in Antalya were invited to pitch their companies. The founders each have 30 seconds to tell us about what makes their start up so special.

Groupon has acquired Hyperpublic, a New York start-up that aggregates and analyzes the habits and behaviors of consumers - giving a glimpse into Groupon's future plans. It was one of Groupon's first significant ...

Ali Karabey is the managing director of Turkey's newest VC fund, 212. He describes the problems that the former London-based banker had in setting up in Turkey, a market of great potential, but still going ...

Groupon has bought two-year old startup Hyperpublic for an undisclosed amount.

PRAGUE, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Unit 3 at CEZ's Dukovany nuclear power plant is in start-up mode after amonth-long refuelling, the Czech utility said on Monday.CEZ took the 498-MW unit offline on Jan. 21.The ...

E-commerce is set to boom in India like it has already in China as online shopping catches on for books, electronics and toys. Which startup will emerge as the Amazon or Dangdang of India?

Stanford's Perry Klebahn knows start-ups and big companies. And based on co-running the Stanford Hasso Plattner Institute of Design's Launchpad Class -- that teaches Stanford students about start-ups, Klebahn has two great ideas for what large organizations can learn from them. In a February 14th interview, Klebahn summarized …

Feb 17 (Reuters) - Groupon Inc has boughtlocation-based technology start-up Hyperpublic Inc, theprivately held startup said on its website on Friday.New York-based Hyperpublic provides data technology ...

Groupon Acquires Start-Up Hyperpublic

Groupon has scooped up HyperPublic, a New York start-up that aggregates and analyzes the habits and behaviors of consumers -- giving a glimpse into Groupon's future plans. It was one of Groupon's first ...

Groupon has acquired Hyperpublic, a New York-based start-up that provides location-based information developers can use to build their own applications. Hyperpublic, which raised a $1.15 million seed round ...

THE VISION: A startup backed by media billionaire Barry Diller has launched a service that sends live local TV feeds to iPhones and iPads.THE CAUTION: The service may be short-lived, as TV stations are ...

A startup backed by media billionaire Barry Diller has launched a service that sends live local TV feeds to iPhones and iPads. But the service may be short-lived, since TV stations are likely to challenge ...

China, U.S. Start-Up Team in Coal-Conversion Deal

By Sarah McBride SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - When Jason Goldberg set out to raise a new round of funding for his flash sales site Fab.com, he dispensed with the usual PowerPoint presentations and instead ...

When Jason Goldberg set out to raise a new round of funding for his flash sales site Fab.com, he dispensed with the usual PowerPoint presentations and instead gave potential investors a look at the crown ...

Smith Electric Vehicles gets Chinese investment, road to Chinese market

When Jason Goldberg set out to raise a new round of funding for his flash sales site Fab.com, he dispensed with the usual PowerPoint presentations and instead gave potential investors a look at the crown ...

While booming air travel in Asia has led to a rush of new aircraft orders, there is also a growing concern that financing this expansion may be difficult, especially for over-leveraged airlines given a ...

Clearwire may need 'substantial additional capital'

By Samuel Shen and Jacqueline WongSHANGHAI (Reuters) - Healthcare-focused venture capital firm Vivo Ventures said on Friday it would accelerate investment in Chinese and U.S. companies with a strategy ...

Clearwire says it may need 'substantial additional capital'

Image via Wikipedia We admire start-ups but resent big-corporations (unless they’re Apple).  We idolize entrepreneurs, we’re wary of businessmen, and we vilify CEOs. Do we love business – or hate it? This depends a lot on what you mean by “business.”  There are at least two competing narratives.  First is the story of  …

I like health Web sites and tech start-ups. I think the democratization of medical information is a beautiful thing. It's a cliche that you can find out more about a hotel than a doctor with a few Google searches. I love how that's starting to change. I also think that [...]

William Bollinger, one of the pioneers of London's hedge fund industry, has come out of retirement to launch a new venture - in Singapore.

Few business owners expect to get a fat buyout offer while their startup is still on the launch pad. Here's what one business owner did when confronted with an offer.

The idea behind crowdfunding is simple enoughallow startups to raise small amounts of money online in order to fund their burgeoning businesses. Currently startups are prohibited by both federal and state ...

Marc Andreessen explains.

According to a quarterly Challenger, Gray & Christmas, 2011 had the lowest startup rate in the 11 years since the survey began. Over the last two quarters of last year, on average just 3.2% of jobless ...

Corporate venture capital rose last year as big tech increased its investment in buzzy start-ups.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Jonathan Schwartz,the former Sun Microsystems CEO who departed after Oracle Corp bought the server systems maker in 2010, is mounting acomeback with a social media startup ...

For all of the different kinds of financing a small company can obtain from the S.B.A., the agency has not had a way to nurture fast-growing start-ups since 2004.

Biogen to buy Stromedix, startup founded by its own alumni

New small business incubator starting in Cincinnati