Amazon Dwarfs U.S. Retailers in Terms of Market Cap
When Amazon held its IPO in 1997, the leadership at retail companies such as Walmart, Costco and...
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The Global Ransomware Attack is Highly Effective Advertising for Cy...
The hackers who unleashed a global ransomware attack on Friday (May 12) have netted themselves ov...
(M&A) Cisco Acquires Conversational AI Startup MindMeld for $125 Mi...
This morning Cisco announced that it is buying MindMeld for $125 million. Founded in 2011, MindMe...
Apple - Predictably Profitable, Unpredictably Valuable
Predicting Apple’s yearly revenues has been fairly easy. The following graph shows the relations...
(M&A) Apple Acquires Lattice Data for $200M (Their Third Major AI C...
Apple acquires AI company Lattice Data, a specialist in unstructured ‘dark data’, for $200MLast...
Twiggle Raises $15M in New Funding to Make E-Commerce Search More I...
Twiggle, a Tel Aviv-headquartered startup focused on making searching for products online as simp...
Snapchat’s User Base is Loyal, But That Might Not be Enough
Snapchat maker Snap issued its first earnings report as a public company on Wednesday, and, well,...
(M&A) Apple Acquires Sleep Tracking Company Beddit, But Its Site wi...
Apple has acquired a sleep tracking hardware and software company.In a post on Beddit‘s privacy...
(PDF) BCG - Global Capital Markets 2017 : Mastering the Value Migra...
The capital markets ecosystem turned in a decent performance in 2016 compared with the previous f...
What Apple's Cash Pile Could Buy
Apple had $256.8 billion in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities by the end of the qu...
Here's Where Amazon’s Profits are Coming From
Amazon announced its first quarter earnings on Thursday, beating analyst expectations across the...
(PDF) Accenture - The New Face of Wealth Management : Int The Era o...
The future of wealth advisory is no longer the traditional human advising another human scenario....
Unicorn Outcomes : Sequoia Capital Sees The Most $1B+ Exits And Ten...
We ranked investors with the most companies in their portfolios exiting at $1B+, and those that w...
(Infographic) The Blockchain Meets The Stock Market
Modern technology enables stock markets to be faster and more complex than ever.But while the spe...
Despite Hype, VR Investment Fades In Q1 2017
After years of buzz and modest consumer uptake, it was supposed to be the time when virtual and a...
MakeSpace Raises $30M to Store Your Belongings
If you live in New York, you’ve seen the subway ads. MakeSpace wants to free your apartment of c...
E-Commerce Planet : The Most Well-Funded Private E-Commerce Compani...
China tops the US as home to the most private e-commerce companies with funding over $100M.[click...
CLEAR Raises $15M to Expand Biometric Security
CLEAR, the biometric security firm popular in U.S. airports and stadiums, has raised $15 million...
Orbital Systems Raises £15M Series B for ‘NASA-Inspired’ Tech to...
Orbital Systems, a ‘clean-tech’ startup out of Sweden, has raised £15 million in Series B fund...
(Infographic) Fintech Investment in 2016
According to a new report by Singapore-based venture capital firm Life.SREDA, last year was a mix...
McDonald’s CEO is Getting $15 Million to Figure Out a Menu People...
There’s no doubt about the challenge ahead of McDonald’s. How do you reimagine and transform th...
Uber, Lifting Financial Veil, Says Sales Growth Outpaces Losses
Uber Technologies Inc. isn’t required to report its finances publicly, but the privately held co...
(Infographic) China's Massive Investment in US 2000-2016
Part of being a global superpower is having some money to throw around. Want to fund a giant 80 m...
Amazon Will Make Up 50% of All U.S. E-Commerce by 2021
Brick-and-mortar retailers should expect no relief from Amazon.com's relentless march to e-commer...
(PDF) Mckinsey - The Global Forces Inspiring a New Narrative of Pro...
Growth is shifting, disruption is accelerating, and societal tensions are rising. Confronting the...
The Numbers Behind the 'New Big Three'
Forget General Motors, forget Ford. Tesla is now the largest car manufacturer in the United State...
(M&A) Tech Exits in Q1 2017: IPOs and M&A Remain Strong
The first quarter of 2017 was another good quarter for technology company exits. We saw a number...
Tesla Hits a New Milestone, Passing G.M. in Valuation
Tesla’s stock valuation has soared since the company went public in 2010, recently surpassing Fo...
Otonomo Raises $25M to Help Automakers Make Money from Connected Cars
It’s no secret that data is the hot new revenue source for automakers, who are seeing additional...
(Infographic) The Race For AI : Top Acquirer of AI Startups
Around 46% of the AI companies acquired since 2012 have had VC backing.Corporate giants like Goog...
(PDF) BCG - A Framework for Deep-Tech Collaboration
Collaborations between big companies and startups are the business world’s odd couples—two enti...
(Infographic) The Top 100 Venture Capitalists
For a second year, we worked with The New York Times and used the CB Insights Investor Mosaic alg...
