Lightspeed Venture Partners has raised a new, nearly billion-dollar fund. It’s the firm’s tenth and has been split in two different pots earmarked for early- and late-stage ventures, according to Fortune, which…
How Berlin became an online privacy haven
After NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked millions of secrets that blew the lid off American spying activities, Germany’s most famous news magazine Der Spiegel defended him, blazoning “Asyl Für Snowden” (Asylum for…
UAE’s Souq.com raises $75m – Investment Round Up
Funding The WSJ is reporting Souq.com, which claims to be the Arab world’s biggest e-commerce site, has secured a $75 million investment from Naspers, a South African media organization. The Dubai-based company,…
Could Vodafone’s Ono acquisition trigger European telco spending spree?
Vodafone’s $10 billion purchase of Spanish cable operator Ono cements the British telecoms company’s pursuance of a ‘united communications’ model. And the British firm may have fired the starting gun on a…
Internet’s founding father proposes digital Magna Carta
This week the Internet turned 25 years old. In this post-Snowden and not-so-net-neutral era, some might argue the World Wide Web’s fate no longer rests in the world’s hands. But with 60…
U.K. government looks to Internet of Things for ‘industrial revolution’
The U.K. government will spend an extra £45 million ($75 million) on the Internet of Things (IoT) sector, in an attempt to put the country at the forefront of a technology-led “industrial…
Google’s Internet TV and wearables ventures give encouraging results
Google recently announced further advances into new territory . The company disclosed news regarding its Internet TV and wearables businesses at South by Southwest, the Austin, Texas tech conference. But what do…
Weekly Digest: Media hounds man that denies creating bitcoin, Samsung-Apple rivalry still kicking, Facebook wants drones
The man who could be Bitcoin king Bitcoin’s origin myth begins with a person or people that built the cryptocurrency, launched it on the world, then faded into the shadows. Most seemed…
Despite hurdles, Europe’s breakaway States are slowly getting social
As Russian troops surround Ukraine’s semi-autonomous region of Crimea, the world’s media spotlight has turned on a peninsula that encapsulates many of the ethnic and religious tensions common across the former USSR.…
Recruitment tech sector consolidates with round of acquisitions
The talent industry embarked on its own recruitment drive recently, as three of its biggest names secured large acquisitions in the last month. LinkedIn, the social media platform aimed at professionals, has…