Chernin Group LLC, Comcast Corp.’s venture arm and the digital unit of advertising firm WPP PLC are investing in Fullscreen Inc., a startup that helps YouTube video creators make money from their clips. Fullscreen, which supports more than 15,000 aspiring...
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Apple Buys More Than Airtime With Latest Ad
When Apple’s “Think Different” campaign came out in 1997, the ads didn’t sell a specific product, but an idea: The company wanted to change the world, just like Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr. and the other “crazy ones.” It...
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Lyft, which offers ride sharing in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle and Chicago, helps arrange more than 30,000 rides per week.
Andreessen Backs Lyft Ride Sharing With $60M Investment
Lyft Inc., a service for connecting drivers to ride-seekers via smartphone software, has raised $60 million from venture firms led by Andreessen Horowitz LLC as it seeks to almost double its staff and take on rivals. Lyft, which competes with Side.Cr LLC and...
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An example of Tableau's chart-making ability, a Web Traffic Trends Dashboard.
Chart This: NEA’s Investment Return on Tableau — 3,000%
For New Enterprise Associates, its investment return on Tableau Software was — fittingly — off the charts. NEA’s $29.2 million stake in the digital chart provider, which made its stock market debut today, was valued at more than $925 million...
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Twitter's IPO has been a source of speculation, but co-founder Dorsey says it's not on Twitter executives' minds.
Twitter Co-Founder Dorsey ‘Not Even Thinking’ About IPO
Twitter’s initial public offering could be the biggest for a consumer web company since Facebook. But executives have so far declined to say when it might happen, and co-founder Jack Dorsey said the company is “not even thinking about it”...
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The logo for SFR, a mobile-phone unit of Vivendi SA, sits on a giant display screen at one of the company's stores in Paris, France.
Vivendi Goes Back to Future With SFR Spinoff Plan
In its unlikely transformation from a regional water utility into Europe’s biggest telecom and media conglomerate, Vivendi has ridden a lot of corporate trends. It may be on the verge of adding another to the list: the spinoff. Vivendi is...
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Matt Mickiewicz left 99designs to start DeveloperAuction, an online marketplace that matches engineers and employers.
How Donuts Gave Rise to Site Where Employers Can Bid on Engineers
As co-founder of web startup 99designs, Matt Mickiewicz relied on 30 recruiters to find engineering talent for his company in the hyper-competitive market of San Francisco. Results were so poor that when one finally got a prospect hired, the recruiter...
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Tiger Woods plays a bunker shot during the WGC-Cadillac Championship last week in Doral, Florida.
Tiger Woods Behave! Trace Sports TV Aims Its Lens at U.S. Shores
As if there weren’t enough sources of celebrity gossips, Trace Sports, whose TV shows cover the private lives of stars from golf legend Tiger Woods to hoops wizard LeBron James, has its eyes on the U.S. even as it’s working...
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Amazon.com’s little cloud-computing skunkworks project isn’t so little anymore. In fact, if you pull apart Amazon Web Services (AWS) from its e-commerce parent, the seven-year-old cloud division is worth more than two-thirds of the companies in the Standard & Poor’s...
Read more »Time Warner Boss Wonders If Press Knows What They’re Talking About — Including His Own Reporters
If Time Warner Inc. CEO Jeffrey Bewkes isn’t aware of all the media he controls, give him a break. After all, he has a lot on his plate: CNN, HBO, Warner Bros. film studios, TNT, TBS, Cartoon Network … and...
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