If you’re a company with serious cash lying around and it’s not being invested in tech start-ups, you must have missed the memo.
Luxury car kingpin BMW announced a $100 million venture fund today, debuting with an investment in New York based My City Way.
The late-stage gold rush for big name tech companies keeps heating up. JP Morgan announced a new $500-750 million fund today to invest in top technology firms like Facebook and Twitter.
It will be interesting to see how JP Morgan handles these investments for U.S. clients, after watching rival Goldman Sachs botch an opportunity Read More
The runaway success of Twitter might seem to some deep thinkers like a sign of the coming Apocalypse, or at least the end of long form journalism.
But for those keeping an eye on the some-might-say bubble in the tech industry right now, or just looking for a little levity, it’s good to know that Read More
The huge leap to multibillion-dollar valuations for Facebook and Groupon in the past weeks has led to a rash of warning that we’re entering a bubble, one that may end as badly as the dot-com bubble did back at the start of the last decade.
“With Billion-Dollar Dot-com Valuations Back in a Big Way, It’s Read More
Dealbook has a roundup of bubble talk from investors and experts talking about how the hype around startups reminds them of the boom before the dot-com bust:
“I’m not saying Quora, Foursquare, Square aren’t eventually worth a lot of money, but the price to pay to get into those games is kind of amazing Read More
It would be easy to assume that 1999 is the kind of year Fred Wilson would like to repeat.
In January of that year, Yahoo bought the web hosting service Geocities. Wilson and his first firm, Flatiron Ventures, were an early Geocities investor.
1999 was near the peak of the dot-com bubble, and Yahoo paid Read More
Back in the late 1990s, Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker was known as the “Net Queen” for her bullish view on the web. When the Dot-com bubble burst, of course, her research fell out of favor.
But according to Bloomberg, a decade later, with tech stocks all the rage, Meeker’s research is back Read More
