March 18, 2015
The Looming Tech Bubble Burst: Overblown Or Overdue?
Prominent tech investor Bill Gurley captured headlines coming out of SXSW last week with his rather grim predictions of things to come for the startup economy – and unusual addition...
March 18, 2015
Google Wallet Grabs A “Lyft”
After Apple Pay and Paypal, Lyft has now announced Google Wallet’s integration to its ride-sharing app. With the integration, Lyft riders can now pay via direct bank account or any...
March 17, 2015
Jack Ma’s Investment Powerhouse
Alibaba Group might as well call be called Alibaba Investments. From high-fashion furniture, film productions and messaging apps — to Lyft and Snapchat — Alibaba’s lengthy, and growing, list of...
March 16, 2015
Bubble Warnings Coming From SXSW
All of the coolest kids in tech, music and movies were gathered in Austin to meet, greet, network and share a few grim prophesies of doom to come. OK, well,...
March 13, 2015
Lyft Gets $300M Investment From Rakuten
Lyft has snagged a $300 million investment from Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten in a funding round that gives the ride-sharing company a $2.5 billion valuation, according to Bloomberg News. Lyft...
March 12, 2015
Alibaba Snapchat Deal Values Messaging Startup At $15B
Messaging service Snapchat is now valued at $15 billion, a $5 billion increase over its last funding round in 2014, which was led by Kleiner Perkins and Yahoo! and which...
February 25, 2015
Another Billion Dollar Week And Credit Karma’s Billion Dollar Vision
When Credit Karma came on the scene in 2007, it entered the startup marketplace with a fairly simply goal: help consumers better manage their financial lives by giving them truly...
February 17, 2015
Urgent.ly Aims To Be The Uber Of AAA
Stuck on a dusty road miles from the nearest town because the car’s got a flat-tire? Usually that means whipping out the AAA membership card and calling for a tow...
February 02, 2015
Google Now Integrated With Instacart, Lyft And 40 Other New...
Google Now is the search giant’s newest attempt to make the smart phone smarter. The intelligence layer running within the Google mobile app saves users the trouble of looking for...
