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Royal Mail of Britain has agreed to sell its 20 percent stake in Camelot , the U.K. national lottery operator, clearing the way for a sale of the entire company, The Times of London reported.
Venture Capital
Retail Industry
CVC Capital Partners
General Atlantic
Roundup , deals , VC
Rebecca Zacks wrote:
The dollar amounts ranged from the modest (FitnessKeeper) to the mammoth (Vertex) for New England tech and life sciences deals this week.
—Boston’s FitnessKeeper, maker of the RunKeeper iPhone application, raised $400,000 from ...
Venture Capital
Economic Blog
Harvard University
Lilly Ventures
Point Judith Capital
Castile Ventures
Atlas Venture
Layoffs , startups , Internet
Gregory T. Huang wrote:
Seattle-based Wetpaint, a social publishing startup, has laid off nine employees today, as part of an unspecified refocusing of company resources, according to TechFlash . The company laid off 15 staffers in July , and is now ...
Venture Capital
Accel Partners
Trinity Ventures
Steve Jobs
VC , deals , people
Luke Timmerman wrote:
There haven’t been many home run venture investments in the Northwest this year, but one of the year’s biggest hits flew below most people’s radar—including mine. It basically made a lot of money by helping people ...
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Economic Blog
Polaris Venture Partners
Three Arch Partners
Kaiser Permanente Ventures
Buerk Dale Victor
American Airlines and its partners countered Delta Air Lines ' recent offer of $1 billion in support for Japan Airlines with a deal it argued was "vastly superior," escalating a tug-of-war over the troubled Japanese carrier.
Venture Capital
Texas Pacific Group
Retail Industry
Investor sentiment toward the private equity industry has dropped sharply over the past year following its poor performance during the financial crisis and frustrations over a lack of transparency at private equity firms, according to a study released late Wednesday.
Venture Capital
Coller Capital
Financial Crisis
Misconceptions about how the Blackstone Group's business works may be holding the firm's stock down, analysts for Credit Suisse write in a new research report.
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The Blackstone Group
Financial Crisis
IT , VC , deals
Wade Roush wrote:
North Billerica, MA-based Contour Semiconductor has raised $8 million in new equity financing, according to regulatory documents filed today. The company produces Flash memory chips for mobile-device data storage at low cost and high volume using ...
Venture Capital
Capital Partners
American Capital
Still River Funds
Gartner
Visteon
IT , deals , VC
Wade Roush wrote:
Boston-based OwnerIQ, which provides advertisers and retailers with targeted marketing data about users who download the product manuals available through its websites, has raised $5.82 million in Series C funding, according to regulatory documents ...
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Gartner
Visteon
Atlas Venture
Egan Managed Capital
Massachusetts Technology Development Corporation
Another View: Thomas M. Benninger of Global Leveraged Capital offers some advice for debt-ridden companies: Abandon hope.
Venture Capital
The Blackstone Group
Global Downturn
Financial Crisis
Web , deals , VC
Ryan McBride wrote:
VisibleGains (fka PermissionTV), a Waltham, MA, provider of interactive online video technology for the B2B market, has raised $2 million in a new financing deal, according to an SEC filing . Company CEO Cliff Pollan told Xconomy that his firm ...
Venture Capital
Point Judith Capital
Castile Ventures
Visteon
MasterCard
SEC
Groupon, a start-up company that offers daily discounts online for everything from manicures to meals, announced Wednesday that it has raised $30 million in a second round of venture financing.
Venture Capital
Accel Partners
New Enterprise Associates
2009 – November 29th. The virus is mutating. No need to worry….at least for now, says WHO. 2009 – November 29th. More than 1,000 deaths in the past week. 2009 – November 28th. Swine flu vaccination is vital (The Guardian) 2009 – November 25th. China expert warns of swine flu virus mutation. ...
Venture Capital
deals , IT , acquisitions
Wade Roush wrote:
SimpleTuition, a startup headquartered in Newton, MA, that helps college students apply for state and federal loans, announced today that it has acquired TuitionCoach, a San Mateo, CA-based website that provides personalized financial ...
Venture Capital
Atlas Venture
Capital Partners
Gartner
MasterCard
CA Inc.
Layoffs , startups , Gaming
Gregory T. Huang wrote:
Bellevue, WA-based gaming company Smith & Tinker has cut about 30 percent of its staff, according to a report in VentureBeat . The company has confirmed an unspecified number of layoffs. Led by co-founders Jordan Weisman and ...
Venture Capital
Leo Capital Holdings,
Joe Biden
Vulcan Capital
Steve Jobs
VC , investing , startups
Wade Roush wrote:
The average return on venture capital investments for the year ending June 30, 2009, was -17 percent, according to figures released by the National Venture Capital Association in October. The 3-year return was +1.3 percent, the 5-year ...
Venture Capital
Charles River Ventures
Economic Blog
Exchange-Traded Funds
Union Square Ventures
Highland Capital Partners
Personal Finance
Crescendo Bioscience, which develops tests for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, has nabbed $5 million more in a second round of funding, VentureWire reported.
Venture Capital
Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
Mohr, Davidow Ventures
Retail Industry
Alstom and Schneider Electric of France on Monday night trumped foreign rivals GE and Toshiba with a €4.1bn (£3.7bn) bid for the transmission and distribution arm of Areva, France's state-owned nuclear group. Areva's supervisory board announced it would enter exclusive negotiations with the two ...
Venture Capital
Kenneth R. French
Schneider Electric
IT , startups , deals
Wade Roush wrote:
Derry, NH-based Cedar Point Communications has raised $2 million out of a planned $3.4 million round of debt, the company revealed in regulatory documents filed November 24. The company, which makes voice-over-Internet-Protocol switching ...
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Ascent Venture Partners
Battery Ventures
Charles River Ventures
Comcast
Focus Ventures
J.P. Morgan Chase
Henry Schein, the healthcare products distributor, and Butler Animal Health Supply agreed to merge their animal health businesses on Monday, creating a big new distributor of veterinary products.
