Kharif is a reporter for Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek in Portland, Ore. She covers technology, with a particular focus on wireless communications. Kharif joined BusinessWeek in November 2000. Kharif has a graduate journalism degree from Northwestern University.
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Venture capitalist Matt Murphy says this year could be even bigger for corporate-software maker.
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers will invest at least $200 million this year in mobile applications and cloud computing services for corporate users, investment partner Matt Murphy said. The Menlo Park, California-based venture capital firm, which boosted its enterprise-technology investments...
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Esther Dyson is still excited about the possibilities with collecting data, and health devices that can give real-time feedback.
Angel investor Esther Dyson continues to spread her wings. The former technology analyst found success as an early backer of photo-sharing service Flickr and bookmarking site Delicious, both of which sold to Yahoo. She’s on the boards of high-profile sites...
Read more »With Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android dominating the market, it’s easy to think of Silicon Valley as the center of the mobile universe. But when it comes to the industry’s largest venture capital investments during the first half of the...
Read more »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...
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Some 71 percent of those polled by WhisperNumber.com said they wouldn’t consider Facebook’s stock as a long-term investment.
Facebook may be one of the most anticipated IPOs, but not so with the investment public. More than 70 percent of those surveyed by WhisperNumber.com last week said they wouldn’t buy the social-networking site’s shares after its initial public offering....
Read more »For all the hype over the upcoming Facebook initial public offering, companies that serve consumers don’t give investors as good a return as companies that focus on corporate users, according to data compiled by Tableau Software Inc. Companies focused on...
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Ingenico is taking on Square, which offers a credit card reader for smartphones.
Square, beware. Ingenico SA, a maker of in-store payment terminals, just took a controlling stake in ROAM Data, a rival provider of portable payment systems used by small merchants. Just like Square, ROAM’s technology lets smartphones and tablets based on...
Read more »Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the venture firm that backed Zynga Inc. and Groupon Inc., is considering starting a new fund focused on startups selling cloud services to corporations. Kleiner Perkins partners “have talked about it, and are intrigued by...
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