Ashton Kutcher, Tweet Pimps and Federal Crime
Kutcher's actions highlight a pervasive new phenomenon in start-up world: portfolio pimping.
View ArticleAngry Birds Developer Partners With Medio As It Heads Into Billion Dollar...
To keep its 300 million players engaged, Rovio Mobile has partnered with analytics firm Medio Systems.
View ArticleThe Most Powerful Women In Technology
In the fast-paced world of Silicon Valley, the number of women at the top has been slow to change. These nine have dared to take on the status quo.
View ArticleSteve Jobs' Resignation Letter
Steve Jobs officially resigns as chief executive of Apple.
View ArticleNon-Profit CouchSurfing Raises Millions In Funding
CouchSurfing will convert from its non-profit status to that of a B Corporation.
View ArticleY Combinator Start-Ups: Guess Which Will Be Worth A Billion
Try to guess which ones will be worth $1 billion.
View ArticleOn Eve Of Facebook's Music Announcement, Its Top Music App Raises Millions
Facebook is on the verge of integrating a number of streaming music start-ups into its platform. It's unclear how that will affect its top music app.
View ArticleTwitter's Missionary Abroad
Katie Jacobs Stanton was hired to get the world on Twitter. One year later, her day-to-day responsibilities have been, well, tweaked.
View ArticleRon Conway, Yuri Milner, Accel and Sequoia Jump To Invest In Chinese Incubator
Innovation Works, the seed-stage investment firm started by ex-Google China Chief Kai-Fu Lee, has closed $180 million from an impressive list of U.S. angels, executives and venture capital firms...
View ArticleTechCrunch's Michael Arrington Confirms He Is Starting A VC Fund
Arrington will continue to write for the popular tech blog as he deploys $20 million in start-ups.
View ArticleMichael Arrington: "I Will No Longer Have An Editorial Role At TechCrunch."
Did Arianna Huffington just sack TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington? When FORBES spoke with Arrington yesterday, he confirmed he was in the process of closing a $20 million fund with backing from AOL...
View ArticleThe VC Shuffle: Tim Chang Leaves Norwest for Mayfield
Midas lister will co-manage operations at Mayfield while leading investments in mobile, gaming, digital media and in China.
View ArticlePayPal Founders: Innovation Is Dead
Max Levchin and Peter Thiel decry the dearth of innovation outside the consumer internet. (Hypocrisy alert).
View ArticleTurntable.fm Adds A Slick iPhone App (And $7 Million)
The interactive music site has a groupie in Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson.
View ArticleFab.com Is To Groupon What Facebook Is To MySpace
The world didn’t need another flash sales site. It just needed this one.
View ArticleFormer Hulu CTO Eric Feng Debuts Living Calendar Erly.com
Erly.com wants to be "an IMDB movie page for every experience you’ve ever had.”
View ArticleVideo: Fab.com Founders Sound Off On Their Success
Nicole Perlroth sits down with the founders of the three month old, suddenly profitable, start-up.
View ArticleBill Gurley On IPOs: If You File, Make Sure You Price
VideoEditor’s Note: The following is a guest post written byBill Gurley, a general partner atBenchmark Capital who has led investments in OpenTable, Zillow and Uber (and many other successful...
View ArticleBox.net Rejected $550 Million+ Acquisition Offer
Founders rebuffed an offer "notably higher" than its last valuation, sources say.
View ArticleNewSchools CEO Ted Mitchell: My Best Idea For K-12 Education
America's school system is broken. Here's how one Silicon Valley organization thinks we should fix it.
View ArticleChelsea Clinton and Accel's Sonali De Rycker Join IAC Board
Accel's reach now extends beyond Facebook, Wal-Mart, News Corp and Dell to IAC.
View ArticleSean Parker: A Facebook-iTunes Partnership Would Have Been Disastrous
An exclusive look at Sean Parker's original 2009 pitch letter to Spotify's Daniel Ek.
View ArticleWhy I'll Be Taking My Photos To Waddle
It's simple. It's private. It lets me edit mustaches onto my friends' faces.
View ArticleAfter Rebuffing $600 Million Citrix Takeover, Box.net Closes $81 Million In...
Why agree to a takeover when your valuation keeps going up?
View ArticleSiri Was Born A Man And Other Things You Don't Know About Apple's New...
Menlo Ventures' Shawn Carolan tells FORBES why he initially invested in Siri, why Siri is a lady, and whether Google should be shaking in its boots.
View ArticleTim O'Reilly: The World's 7 Most Powerful Data Scientists
see photosZUMA Press/NewscomClick for full photo gallery: Tim O’Reilly: The World’s 7 Most Powerful Data Scientists "The success of companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Netflix, not to mention...
View ArticleMichael Pollan: The World's 7 Most Powerful Foodies
"Though still quite young, the movement to reform the American food system, from farm to diet, is one of the most hopeful social movements of our time," says Michael Pollan."It had its roots in the...
View ArticleMary Matalin: The World's 7 Most Powerful Conservatives
"Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the...
View ArticleChris Anderson: The Year's 7 Most Powerful Ideas
"Here are seven ideas that can make powerful, positive and measurable differences in how we create the future," says Chris Anderson. Click the gallery above to see Chris Anderson's picks. Chris...
View ArticleJohn Deutch: The World's 7 Most Powerful People In Energy
see photosF. Carter Smith/ Bloomberg via Getty ImagesClick for full photo gallery: John Deutch: The World’s 7 Most Powerful People In Energy "These seven people have most influenced world energy...
View ArticleMichael Hayden: The World's 7 Most Powerful Defenders And Offenders
"Global security can be formed or threatened by heads of state whose wisdom, folly and obsessions shape global events," says Michael Hayden."But often it is the security practitioners, those rarely in...
View ArticleLarry Summers: The World's 7 Most Powerful Economists
"Some economists wield power. Others produce ideas that over time move the world," says Larry Summers."A very few like Keynes do both. These are the economists who through the power they wield and...
View ArticleEli Broad: The World's 7 Most Powerful Philanthropists
"Despite the economic downturn, philanthropy is thriving, most likely because wealthy individuals recognize the social needs of our world are so pressing," says Eli Broad. "These philanthropists will...
View ArticlePaul Graham: The World's 7 Most Powerful Entrepreneurs
"Like having a child, running a startup is the sort of experience that's hard to imagine unless you've done it yourself. The best source of advice for new founders is not professors or investrs but...
View ArticleYves Behar: The World's 7 Most Powerful People In Design
"Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet’s needs," says Yves Behar. "The seven most powerful people in design have a deep vision for the future of our...
View ArticleMark Cuban: The World's 7 Most Powerful People In Sports
"The sports world certainly has a pecking order, which is all driven by cash," saysMark Cuban."Sports may be nothing more than a game at its most basic, but when it comes to the sport of business, my...
View ArticleWendy Kopp: The World's 7 Most Powerful Educators
"Providing an excellent education for all students--especially the 16 million children growing up in poverty-- requires extraordinary commitment," says Wendy Kopp. "These individuals, who aren’t often...
View ArticleJames Carville: The World's 7 Most Powerful Liberals
"When compiling this list, I decided to exclude elected officials. Some of my choices are obvious, others less so," says James Carville. "These people keep the cranks turning in the Democratic party....
View ArticleHu Shuli: China's 7 Most Powerful People
"Power should be measured by different dimensions, through lenses of realism and idealism, and set against backdrops of both today and tomorrow," says Hu Shuli. "If a judge is too realistic, the...
View ArticleNolan Bushnell: The World's 7 Most Powerful Gamers
see photosZUMA Press/NewscomClick for full photo gallery: Nolan Bushnell: The World's 7 Most Powerful Gamers "Each of the following has made an important contribution to today's game industry,"...
View ArticleSandra Day O'Connor: The 7 Most Powerful Supreme Court Decisions
"Former Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes once observed that the Supreme Court is 'distinctly American in concept and function," says Sandra Day O'Connor. "No other court has exercised the same degree...
View ArticleBill Gross: The World's 7 Most Powerful Financiers
"Global finance, more than ever is dominated by policymakers because they control the balance sheets that replace and enhance the private sector as it de-levers," Bill Gross says. "To pinpoint power,...
View ArticleThe World's Most Powerful: Drop-Offs
Ten people fell off our list of the world's most powerful last year due to declining influence, including Oprah Winfrey, disgraced French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn and former Japanese prime...
View ArticleThe World's Most Powerful: Newcomers
Out of the 7 billion people on this planet we ranked the 70 that matter most. This year 16 newcomers ascended the ranks to make our list. Click the gallery above to see who made the cut.
View ArticleReid Hoffman: Social Media's 7 Most Powerful People
The startup guru chooses seven innovators who are shaping the social media space.
View ArticleMarc Andreessen And Ben Horowitz: The 7 Most Powerful People In Tech You've...
see photosASSOCIATED PRESSClick for full photo gallery: Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz: The 7 Most Powerful People In Tech You've Never Heard Of When we asked Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz to name...
View ArticleFab.com Hits A Milestone
Fab has added one million members to its daily deal site for design.
View ArticleVenture Capital's Pawnbroker
The sudden influx of rookie money into venture capital should bode well for Hans Swildens’ Industry Ventures.
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