Don't you just hate it when the Department of Homeland Security seizes your boat? TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington sure does, blogging about the incident as if it were a totally relatable, normal problem that regular people go through.
The final numbers for last year in venture-capital IPOs and acquisitions are in, and while there was no dot-com-era type of explosion, the much hyped new tech bubble appears to have just... petered out.
The buzziest part of the economy — the social media startups centered in Silicon Valley — were once heralded as a way to kickstart the economy. Now that there's some good news on the job front — unemployment lower than it's been since January 2009 and 114,000 new jobs last month — it's clear that's not where job growth is coming from.
Following Facebook's IPO we declared a bubble burst and now we're seeing that hit the start-up ecosystem as investor money becomes harder to find.
Equity swaps, in which cash strapped start-ups offer stock in their company instead of money for goods and services, was a popular financing method during the dot-com boom and now they're back, say The Wall Street Journal's Emily Maltby and Sarah Needleman.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ensured the world that he would not pull a Peter Theil and sell his shares within the next 12 months, as indicated in this form filed today with the SEC.
Yelp's stock was supposed to tank today, or at least experience a dip, but it's doing the opposite of that, up almost 20 percent, as of this writing.
From the mouths of the investors themselves: The tech start-up world is worse at building successful companies than it used to be.
With investors pulling their money out of Groupon, Facebook, and Zynga, one might be tempted to call this tech bubble burst, but other Internet start-ups have caught the attention of the venture capital world, keeping this thing going.
Slightly ahead of schedule, the Betaworks/News.me team released the brand new version of Digg on Tuesday evening they built from the ground up.
This afternoon at 4 p.m. Facebook will report its first earnings report since it went public in May, giving us all sorts of information, like financials goodies and user stats, that it's never had to divulge before.
Both Kayak.com, an online travel booking site, and Palo Alto Networks, a network security company, made their market debuts this morning, the first tech IPOs since Facebook's abysmal debut. Their performances don't look anything like Facebook's.
Like any group of frenemies, the tech elite descending upon Sun Valley, Idaho for the Allen & Co. conference today make statements about more than just their fashion sense with their outfit choices.
In what's either a sign that the tech bubble just popped or the spectacular failure of a once very popular social network, tech development firm BetaWorks has bought Digg for the bargain basement price of $500,000. No, that's not missing any zeros.
After delaying its IPO for almost two years and canceling its most recent investor roadshow following Facebook's disastrous IPO, Kayak has finally priced its valuation this morning.
With the rise of the brogrammer, the waning of Mark Zuckerberg's hacker way, and an influx of blue blooded rich kids running the show, we wondered if the traditional kid-in-basement Silicon Valley hacker nerd had disappeared, leaving Silicon Valley without its essence.
Here's an interesting sign of the times: The tech companies that have gone public in tech bubble 2.0 may have big revenue streams, but don't make profits, according to statistics put together by IPO Dashboard.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is so rich he doesn't have to settle for some no name island off the coast of nowhere, he can buy up a well-known Hawaiian island off the coast of Maui.
It's no secret that there's a lot of money flowing into (but not out of) Silicon Valley, yet the tech scenesters are trying awfully hard to keep their spending under wraps.
As the stock market pounds Facebook's freshly issued shares, the social network's second day on the market hasn't eased our fears that we're in a social media bubble. In fact, it only suggests the bubble is coming to its end.
Before we watch Facebook be its public self at 11:00 a.m this morning, when its starts trading on the stock market, it's time to get caught up on what this all means. Before that bell rings in a few hours, here's everything you need to know.
If all the Facebook, Pinterest and Spotify over-valuation talk this week hasn't signaled a tech bubble, the spending happening in and around Silicon Valley should do the trick.
After receiving a $100 million investment from Japanese e-commerce site Rakuten, the "next Facebook," got a valuation 50 percent bigger than the already unbelievable price of Instagram.
Unlike the other Internet tech bubble before it, this social media variant, which the Facebook IPO will only further prove exists, has kept its money pretty contained.
The first Reuters headline on Zynga's first-quarter earnings blared that the company had lost $85 million. The update announced that it had posted a revenue of $321 million. As it turns out, both are true.
Amid all this talk of a social media and tech bubbles, one might think yesterday's bonanza debut of Splunk—which reached a $3 billion market valuation on its first day out—is just another indication of the impending tech bubble, but there's something different about this IPO.
Facebook's $1 billion acquisition of Instagram, a photo sharing app that costs zero dollars to use and has no source of revenue, sure feels like a social networking tech bubble.
A Wall Street Journal report has riled those used to the easy financing for startups
At the TechCrunch Disrupt confab the kids think just think, "It's electric!"
Tech company leaders are more worried than executives in other industries
One expert calls it a "wanna-bubble." But should we be worried about repeating 1999?
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