Social networking game network Zynga has received $29 million in funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Institutional Venture Partners, among others, The Wall...
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Report: Zynga gets $29 million VC funding
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Icahn On Yahoo's Board Makes Microsoft Deal More Likely (VIDEO)
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Now that Yahoo has given in and supplied "shareholder activist" Carl Icahn with three seats on the Yahoo board of directors, Citi analyst Mark Mahaney thinks that...
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ESA: E3 2009 'will occur'
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Filed under: E3, Business Some will tell you they heard the solemn ringing of the death knell as it echoed through the barren halls of the LA Convention Center last week....
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Investor Activist Urges Yahoo Shareholders To Split The Difference Between Icahn’s Board Picks and Yahoo’s
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Activist shareholder Eric Jackson has some advice for all the little guys out there holding Yahoo shares: Come August 1, split the difference on the Yahoo board between...
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Yahoo settles with Icahn on board members
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Yahoo has reached an agreement to end a proxy fight with investor Carl Icahn , who will take a seat on the company's board after the annual stockholders'...
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Zynga Raises $29M(!) from KPCB and IVP [PE HUB]
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Zynga, the San Francisco-based online gaming service led by serial entrepreneur Mark Pincus just completed a $29 million Series B led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield &...
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Official AFL Website of the Melbourne Football Club > News Article > Statement from President, Jim Stynes [del.icio.us]
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“Following yesterday’s Board meeting, Paul McNamee’s employment at the Melbourne Football Club has been terminated. This termination is effective immediately....
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AOL's ousted CEO being considered for Yahoo seat
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Can Jonathan Miller do for Yahoo what he tried to do for AOL? Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Investor Carl Icahn, who reached a compromise with Yahoo this morning...
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Raising The Stakes [A VC]
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It always amuses me that our portfolio company Zynga got its start with Poker. Because as I always tell Mark Pincus, founder and CEO of Zynga, he's playing this hand...
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Pete Cashmore: Icahn Settles For Three Seats in Yahoo’s Board
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Yahoo! reached an agreement with Carl Icahn: eight members of Yahoo’s current board of directors will stand for re-election; the board will be expanded to 11...
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Zynga Raises $29 Million B Round (Led By Kleiner Perkins) and Buys Virtual-World Facebook App YoVille
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Social gaming network Zynga just got some serious funding. It raised $29 million in a B round led by Kleiner Perkins. (IVP and prior investors Union Square Ventures,...
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MEDIAWHIZ HIRES NEW CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER
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MediaWhiz to Take World-Class Online Advertising Platform to Next Level We welcome our new Chief Information Officer, Sal Guido, to our senior management team. As CIO,...
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Icahn Backs Down From Yahoo Proxy Fight In Return For Three Yahoo Board Seats
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Carl Icahn and Yahoo have come to a settlement over control of Yahoo’s board. In return for three board seats, Icahn has agreed to withdraw his alternative slate of...
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Icahn Backs Down From Yahoo Proxy Fight In Return For Three Yahoo Board Seats
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Carl Icahn and Yahoo have come to a settlement over control of Yahoo's board. In return for three board seats, Icahn has agreed to withdraw his alternative slate of...
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 21, 2008
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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. Icahn Settles With Yahoo, Joins BoardAs Greg...
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Yahoo! Announces Settlement with Carl Icahn
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Yahoo! Inc. announced today that it has reached an agreement with Carl Icahn to settle their pending proxy contest related to the Company's 2008 annual meeting of...
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Yahoo, Icahn settle proxy fight: Icahn gets board seat
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Yahoo and billionaire investor Carl Icahn have settled their looming proxy war. According to a statement, Yahoo's board of directors will be expanded to 11 members and...
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Yahoo! and Icahn Strike Deal
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Yahoo! had a busy weekend. The Internet company has reached an agreement with billionaire investor Carl Icahn whereby Icahn will abandon his proxy contest for Yahoo in...
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Yahoo, Icahn reach deal on board
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Yahoo today said it has landed a deal with activist investor Carl Icahn that would help avert his proxy takeover of the search engine company's board of directors. The...
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10gen [Union Square Ventures: A New York Venture Capital Fund Focused on Early Stage & Startup Investing]
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My love for computers and software started as a teenager growing up in Germany. I fondly remember my Apple II which followed my TI 59. I early on discovered that I...