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Don’t freak: Mobile ad startup Dobleas nabs $5.4M from Japan’s FreakOut —

New York City-based mobile ad startup Dobleas has emerged out of stealth with a $5.4 million investment from FreakOut, a Japanese digital marketing company. Dobleas offers a “real-time mobile demand-side platform (DSP) provider with real-time data.” Ideally, its service will offer better data sources and more transparency to ad buyers and sellers who want to [...]


New details emerge about the hack on Facebook —

When we first heard about the hack on Facebook, Apple, Twitter, and Microsoft that seemed to be connected, it looked like an infected website downloaded malicious software onto employee computers when they accessed the site. But now, it seems there was more than one infected website that targeted specific visitors. According to The Security Ledger [...]


Cadence buys chip design firm Tensilica for $380M —

Cadence Design Systems, the largest maker of chip design tools, has agreed to acquire chip design firm Tensilica for $380 million in cash. The deal gives San Jose, Calif.-based Cadence a larger portfolio of chip intellectual property so that its customers can create chips for mobile wireless, network infrastructure, car electronics, and home consumer electronics. [...]


LinkedIn to Buy Pulse Newsreader for More Than $50M —

LinkedIn will buy the maker of the newsreader app Pulse, according to sources familiar with the negotiations. The price of the acquisition is in the tens of millions, they said — between $50 million to $100 million. Kara Swisher reported earlier today that a deal was in the works, with Microsoft and Yahoo also engaged [...]


LinkedIn to Buy Pulse Newsreader for More than $50M —

LinkedIn will buy San Francisco-based newsreader appmaker Pulse, according to sources familiar with the negotiations. The price of the acquisition is in the tens of millions, they said — between $50 million to $100 million. Kara Swisher reported earlier today that a deal was in the works, with Microsoft and Yahoo also engaged in talks. [...]


Rally Software preps for $70M IPO —

Agile software development company Rally has just filed an S-1 registration statement with the SEC, apparently preparing the shop for a $70 million IPO. Deutsche Bank and Piper Jaffray will act as lead book-running managers for the offering, the company said today in a statement on the news. Needham & Company, JMP Securities, and William [...]


Will Silicon Valley ever share the wealth? —

This is a guest post by Carlos Kemeny, a dual-PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University and Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics. Your city is probably considered a ‘thriving startup community’. Your mayor and news station can confirm that this is true. It sounds good. It feels good. However, what proof do you have [...]


Will Silicon Valley ever share the wealth? —

This is a guest post by Carlos Kemeny, a dual-PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University and Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics. Your city is probably considered a ‘thriving startup community’. Your mayor and news station can confirm that this is true. It sounds good. It feels good. However, what proof do you have [...]


Will Silicon Valley ever share the wealth? —

This is a guest post by Carlos Kemeny, a dual-PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University and Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics. Your city is probably considered a ‘thriving startup community’. Your mayor and news station can confirm that this is true. It sounds good. It feels good. However, what proof do you have [...]


Will Silicon Valley ever share the wealth? —

This is a guest post by Carlos Kemeny, a dual-PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University and Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics. Your city is probably considered a ‘thriving startup community’. Your mayor and news station can confirm that this is true. It sounds good. It feels good. However, what proof do you have [...]