The head of the CTEK Boulder Venture Center business incubator has resigned to form a new angel fund called Mountain Angel Capital. Marc Silverman, the former head of CTEK...

  Software has been very, very good to EMC Corp., which earlier this year enjoyed a windfall from the initial public offering of its VMware Inc. division, and the company's more...

  Former Imperium Renewables Inc. chairman and CEO (and prolific blogger) Martin Tobias has been Web-silent since announcing early Friday afternoon that he was hawking some NBA Seattle...

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. on Friday, Dec. 21, unveiled a £593 million ($1.2 billion) offer for British human resources software maker Northgate Information Solutions plc despite recent...

Investors in travel search leader Kayak.com pitched in $175 million in cash to acquire competitor SideStep Inc. as part of a $196 million merger and new funding round for the...

New Mexico startup Holochip Corp. scored a $2.7 million Series A round from ITU Ventures this week. The company previously had raised an undisclosed seed round from ITU and...

For those of you unfamiliar with Tech Coast Angels chair Frank Peters, now might be the perfect time to download a few of his podcasts on venture capital and angel investing...

OJSC VimpelCom, Russia's No. 2 cell-phone company, unveiled a $4.3 billion offer Friday, Dec. 21, for broadband provider Golden Telecom Inc. that will create a full-service telecom group and...

There was a time when only privately held companies in trouble would merge (think HomeGrocer-WebVan). It was a last ditch effort to live to fight another day. The new IPO...

Despite getting unconditional antitrust approval in the U.S., Google Inc.'s $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick Inc. will likely face a tougher review from the European Commission, which is in...

Much like overzealous Major League Baseball owners who fall over themselves when bidding on free agent players, investors were overzealous when given a chance to set the price on NetSuite...

Mobile social networking startup decentral.tv, the operator of Kyte.tv, has wrapped up a $15 million second round that will allow it to expand the development and distribution of its...

Pharmaceuticals Cogentus Cogentus Pharmaceuticals Inc. has completed a $62.5 million private placement that will allow it to advance its novel antiplatelet therapy for cardiovascular disease. Keffi...

Dell Inc. will buy the 30% it does not already own of Dell Financial Services LP for $306 million in cash from CIT Group Inc., it said Thursday. The...

Just as two of its rivals are gaining momentum, Miasole is losing some. The Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers-backed startup is reportedly laying off 40 employees only three months after...

After last year's Republican-controlled Congress killed amendments to preserve so-called Network Neutrality, the advocacy groups of Internet companies had hoped for better luck with the current...

Apparently tired of YouTube receiving all the attention, NBC Universal Inc. is planning to approach online video in a new way: Instead of figuring out how to fit commercials into online video...

When the Federal Trade Commission came out against net neutrality in late June, it was a victory for the telecom and cable companies, but the war is still far from decided. After major rumblings last...

Television, radio and the Internet are melding into one medium at a faster pace than ever before. And one museum — The Paley Center for Media, which will host The Deal's Convergence 2.0 conference on...

The gloves have come off since The Deal and Tech Confidential's Convergence 2.0 Conference last year and the sequel, scheduled for Sept. 17. Most prominently, Viacom Inc. filed a $1 billion complaint...