The Red Herring Global Top 100 Awards came to a close in Pasadena, California last week, and companies from across the world were crowned as among the most promising in technology. The…
Blossoming Los Angeles technology scene captures attention
Silicon Valley is the tech hub of the U.S., saturated with innovative startups, talented engineers, and the most prominent venture and angel investors. But move down 400 miles to Southern California, and…
10 of 2014’s largest pre-IPO funding rounds
Growth equity investing, which Cambridge Associates argues deserves its own asset class, has emerged in recent years to fund the collection of promising young companies that are not quite ready to turn…
Hortonworks IPO filing shines spotlight on Hadoop vendor market
Almost every industry produces huge amount of data, and the realization of the value of that data has driven the Big Data phenomenon. Powering this collection and analysis of vast quantities of…
Facebook stock falls on future spending worries
Facebook beat analyst expectations when it revealed its quarterly earnings report on Tuesday, reporting $3.2 billion in quarterly revenue at $0.43 earnings per share. The social media giant also reported a 7%…
Ello the latest contender to challenge Facebook’s firmly held position
A decade ago, Mark Zuckerberg and a team of computer developers set up shop in Palo Alto to start the next big thing. Since then, Facebook has dominated the social media sphere…
Snapchat investment could set tone for Yahoo’s future strategy
Reports suggest Yahoo will invest $20 million in Snapchat, as a part of a financing round that would give the ephemeral messaging app a $10 billion valuation. If it does, it would…
PayPal spun off as digital payments market grows ever larger
EBay announced this week it will spin off PayPal in the second half of 2015, but that’s just the latest sign that financial services is in a software-induced flux. Although PayPal pioneered…
Apple unveils iPhone 6, Apple Pay and the Apple Watch
Apple has unveiled the iPhone 6, the Apple Watch and Apple Pay at the company’s biggest product launch event in years. The iPhone 6 will be available from September 16, and comes…
Apple product launch preview – how did investors react to the last five events?
Apple enthusiasts are already lining up to get their hands on the new iPhone, set to launch at a September 9 event in Cupertino, California. The devotion of some Apple fans is…