News tagged with investment fund

California leads green tech funding, reduces greenhouse emissions

California has had remarkable success in developing and deploying clean technology, using it to help fuel the state's economic rebound and drive its effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions, even as its population continues ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 7

Japan electronic giants eye chip merger: reports

Three of Japan's biggest electronics companies are to join forces in a chip-making venture, according to reports, days after a swathe of dire results from a sector struggling to compete globally.

Technology / Business

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Money managers, analysts comment on Facebook IPO

Facebook is finally going public. For investors lucky enough to get in on the IPO, the question is simple: Is this going to be the mother lode that puts their kids through college? Or an over-hyped dud?

Technology / Business

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

IBM partners with Brazil billionaire Batista's EBX

US computer giant IBM has signed a deal to purchase 20 percent of a subsidiary of Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista's EBX group in exchange for a $1 billion contract, the companies announced.

Technology / Business

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Google launches venture capital fund (Update)

Google is searching for good ideas.

Technology / Business

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Possible CEOs to succeed Carol Bartz at Yahoo

(AP) -- The search has now begun for a person willing to lead one of the world's most popular Internet properties, Yahoo Inc., whose problems have deepened under its three previous leaders.

Technology / Business

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Yahoo ad exec deflects talk about becoming CEO

(AP) -- The head of Yahoo's online advertising business in North America said Monday he has been too busy trying to bring in more revenue to consider whether he would be willing to become the struggling Internet ...

Technology / Business

created Oct 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Yahoo co-founder urged to help oust chairman

(AP) -- A major Yahoo shareholder seeking to oust Chairman Roy Bostock is urging company co-founder Jerry Yang to join the crusade.

Technology / Business

created Sep 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nearly half of hedge funds' voluntary disclosures are 'unreliable'

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research by Oxford University and Duke University suggests that voluntary disclosures by hedge funds about their monthly investment performance are unreliable. The researchers tracked changes to statements ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Research shows profit, not politics, drives sovereign wealth fund

Investment funds owned by national governments -- known as "sovereign wealth funds" - now wield trillions of dollars in investment power globally, raising concerns that the funds could be used for political purposes and leading ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Feb 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Facebook sells $6.6 million in shares to fund

Facebook has sold about $6.6 million worth of its shares to the investment fund GSV Capital Corp. as the company is believed to be preparing for an initial public offering next year.

Technology / Business

created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi sign joint venture deal

Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi on Tuesday said they had signed a deal to merge their small and medium-sized liquid crystal display businesses for smartphones and tablet computers.

Technology / Business

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Wealthfront lets regular folks invest like the rich

Startup Wealthfront has revamped its online service to give middle- and lower-income people in the United States investment tools typically reserved for the rich to make profit on their money.

Technology / Internet

created Oct 20, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Entrepreneurs face venture capital funding drought

The number of US venture capital firms that raised new investment money sank to a 15-year low in the last fiscal quarter as a drought of funding threatened innovation around the world.

Technology / Business

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Construction starts on new marine research vessel

Construction of Australia's new $120 million Marine National Facility research vessel, Investigator has started in Singapore.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0