Posts Tagged ‘venture firm

It seems that it’s a big day for Swedish businesses expanding into American markets. First, vaunted music service Spotify announced it will be (at great long last) launching this morning in the U.S. And now, with albeit significantly less fanfare, Apica, the load-testing and performance-monitoring solution for cloud and mobile apps, announced that it has [...]

Editors Note: Guest contributor Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer Internet, and social networks. He is based in Palo Alto and you can follow him on Twitter @semilshah. Reports are swirling that Twitter is in talks to raise $400 million, valuing the company close to $8 billion. It seems as if it was only [...]

Venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is beefing up its ranks, say people familiar with the matter. The Menlo Park, Calif., venture firm has recruited Ryan Popple, a senior finance director at electric car and power train maker Tesla Motors, these people say. Mr. Popple didn’t return calls for comment. Kleiner Perkins didn’t immediately [...]

Ross Levinsohn of Velocity Interactive. (Credit: Rafe Needleman/CNET) LOS ANGELES–Ross Levinsohn, former president of Fox Interactive Media and now partner at media venture firm Velocity Interactive, spoke to the execs at the OnHollywood conference here Tuesday to deliver a warning to the entertainment industry: “Take action now or be replaced.” The nut of his argument [...]


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