Startup

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but photos of restaurant food are apparently worth $10 million. OpenTable, the online restaurant reservation company, is announcing today it’s paying that amount to buy Foodspotting, a smartphone application that lets people share...

Like so many entrepreneurs, Adi Tatarko and her husband, Alon Cohen, got into the startup game after they couldn’t find a solution to their problem. The Israeli couple wanted to renovate their newly-purchased Palo Alto home, but picking the right...

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...

As major banks grapple with layoffs, fewer bonuses and expensive legal bills from mortgages gone bad, financial startups are gaining momentum. Three announcements out of Silicon Valley today illustrate how hot this industry is. Prosper Marketplace, a provider of personal...

Microsoft assembled more than 200 tech entrepreneurs, investors and other industry types at its headquarters in Redmond, Washington, today for a series of presentations from members of the company’s business incubator. These events are designed to foster startups, promote Microsoft’s...

Where does an online micro lender go when it needs money? To venture capitalists, of course. BillFloat, a three-year-old San Francisco-based startup, raised $21 million to fund its plans to sign on more partners in the banking, telecommunications and utilities...

Boku President Ron Hirson is leaving the mobile payments provider he co-founded about four years ago to start working on his next gig. Hirson has signed on with Khosla Ventures and Mayfield Fund as an entrepreneur in residence, where he’ll...

Despite protests from media companies, Internet television provider Aereo is expanding into more cities with new products, fueled by a $38 million financing round. Aereo streams live TV to customers’ computers and mobile devices by picking up broadcasts the old-fashioned way —...

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...