(Updates Tesla’s year-to-date stock price change in lead and Musk’s estimated net worth in 10th paragraph.) Tesla Motors is on a pretty good run this year with the stock up 105 percent and a first-ever quarterly profit posted yesterday. That’s...
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Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Tesla Motors.
Elon Musk on Tesla Merger Prospects: Apple Has ‘a Lot of Cash’
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As Dell takes itself private, Hewlett-Packard is vying for its rival's PC customers.
Payback Time? HP Tries to Nab Dell’s PC Customers
(Updates with comment from Lenovo.) Say this for Hewlett-Packard — the beaten-down computer maker still has chutzpah. A little more than an hour after rival Dell said it would go private in a $24.4 billion leveraged buyout, Hewlett-Packard made a...
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A startup called Hover can create detailed 3-D maps of city streets using aerial imagery and crowd-sourced photos.
Seen Flyover in Apple Maps? Startup Raises $3.1M for ‘Flythrough’ Tool
Of all the things Apple unveiled at its annual developers conference this summer, the Flyover feature of its Maps application, where users zip around a three-dimensional city skyline, elicited maybe the most applause. But what if you could actually fly...
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TranscribeMe has raised a total of $1.5 million to develop its text-to-speech service.
TranscribeMe Takes On Apple’s Siri With Man and Machine
Note to self: Good speech-to-text services aren’t cheap. TranscribeMe, a startup that charges customers between $1 and $3 per minute for audio transcription powered by people and machines, closed a round of about $900,000 last week, co-founder Alexei Dunayev said in...
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Quizlet founder Andrew Sutherland (left) hasn't found the need for venture capital.
No VC: Education Startup Quizlet Makes the Grade Going It Alone
This is the third in a five-part series called “No VC,” which highlights startups that have succeeded without venture capital, the lifeblood of Silicon Valley. (This post was updated to correct the site’s pricing to $15 a year.) One night this past...
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Net Power & Light's technology provides virtual gatherings where users can view videos at the same time and interact in real time.
Virtual Class in Session: Startup’s Technology Bring Users Together
Harvard University Professor Michael Sandel’s lectures on justice, one of the school’s most popular courses, are also a hit on YouTube. They’ve been viewed millions of times and have elicited thousands of comments. But unlike the students in his class...
Read more »Discovery Bay Games Raises $15M From Trilogy Equity, Logitech
Discovery Bay Games, which makes tablet accessories such as an iPad controller for classic Atari titles, announced today it raised $15 million. The funding round, led by Trilogy Equity Partners LLC and Logitech, will help the Seattle-based company release a...
Read more »Leap, Hardware Startups Channel Steve Jobs to Lure Investors
Leap Motion was able to entice venture capitalists to invest $14.6 million in its motion-sensor device for controlling computers using just a wave of some fingers. The company was luckier than most. Entrepreneurs aspiring to build technology products that customers can...
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Motorola Vice President John F. Mitchell shows off the DynaTAC portable radio telephone in New York City in 1973.
Motorola’s History Lesson for Google
(This blog was corrected. An earlier version misattributed a comment in the 16th paragraph.) With Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility now complete, a saga that Brad Stone and I explored in this week’s issue of Businessweek, a closer look at...
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Founder of Color Still Has Faith, Partners With Verizon on Android
Bill Nguyen, the founder of the photo- and video-sharing application Color, acknowledges his company has so far been better at grabbing the attention of venture capitalists than actual users. After accepting $41 million from investors for an application that failed...
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