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(PDF) BCG - Global Payments 2016 : Competing in Open Seas
The world of payments remains in constant flux, reflecting an ongoing rebalancing of power among...
Tax Compliance Software Company Avalara Raises $96M
Death and taxes may be the only two certainties in life (according to Ben Franklin), but tax comp...
Blue Bottle Coffee is Raising Another Big Round of Funding
The coffee wars of San Francisco are back on!We’re now hearing from sources that Blue Bottle is...
Didi Chuxing Invests ‘Tens of Millions’ of Dollars in Chinese Bik...
Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing (“Didi”) announced that it has invested “tens of milli...
(PDF) Mckinsey - How Digital Finance Could Boost Growth in Emerging...
Delivering financial services by mobile phone could benefit billions of people by spurring inclus...
(M&A) Apple is Reportedly in Talks to Buy British Luxury Carmaker,...
Apple has approached McLaren Technology Group, the company behind the McLaren Formula One racing...
(Video) Amazon’s Alexa Fund Leads $5.6M Round for Smart Home Start...
Amazon’s Alexa Fund led a $5.6 million funding round for Alexa-enabled home intercom system Nucl...
AllSet Raises $2.35M to Cut Your Restaurant Wait in Half
AllSet, an app that promises to cut restaurant wait time in half by allowing customers to book ta...
Beauty M&A Deals On Track For Another Annual High
UK-based Wahanda (now Treatwell) and Estee Lauder lead in industry acquisitions.Beauty brands, CP...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Finding The True Cost of Portfolio Complexity
A fine-grained allocation of costs can help companies weed out “freeloader” products and improv...
Funding To Restaurant Tech Startups Headed Toward Record Annual High
Despite a dollar drop in Q2'16, deal count remains high to software & hardware restaurant man...
It’s Becoming Clear That We Never Needed Another Seamless
Earlier this year, Grubhub’s future looked bleak.The parent company of Seamless, and America’s...
(Video) iStaging Raises $5M to Bring VR & AR to Furniture-Makers an...
Asian augmented reality (AR) / virtual reality (VR) startup iStaging has raised $5 million in a p...
(M&A) GE Buys Two 3D Printing Companies at $1.4 Billion
A Swedish and a German company join the fold to make industrial components.On Tuesday, General El...
(Infographic) The Future of Dining : 99 Startups Reinventing The Re...
These startups have raised $1.6B in aggregate to integrate digital features into nearly every asp...
Wall Street’s Next Frontier Is Hacking Into Emotions of Traders
Startups wielding sensors and algorithms promise a new era of surveillance.[“Imagine if all your...
Andreessen Horowitz’s Returns Trail Venture-Capital Elite
Rare look at startup investors’ performance shows Andreessen Horowitz lags behind Sequoia, Bench...
Compass Earns $1 Billion Valuation As New Unicorns Become Rarer
New York-based real estate startup Compass Inc. raised new financing that values the company at m...
(PDF) BCG - The 2016 M&A Report : Masters of the Corporate Portfolio
Following a strong 2014, the year 2015 will go into the books as a record for global M&A deal...
Symphony Commerce Raises $11M to Help Brands Offer Faster Shipping
Symphony Commerce, a provider of cloud technology for e-commerce platforms, is raising $11 millio...
Climate Change is Making Oysters and Other Shellfish Dangerous to Eat
Oyster happy hours are going to be getting sadder in the coming years—and we probably have clima...
Customized Online Prescription Acne Treatment Provider Curology Rai...
David Lortscher was one of a few dozen people practicing dermatology in New Mexico when he realiz...
(M&A) Pfizer Spent $14 Billion on a Company with Just One Approved...
Pfizer just outbid numerous competitors for Medivation, a cancer drugmaker with just one approved...
Apple and Samsung are The Only Companies Making Money from Smartphones
A recent study shows that Apple and Samsung are the only company making any money from smartphone...
Robotics M&A: Acquisitions Reach New High In 2015 Boosted By Flurry...
From less than 5 deals in 2011, M&A activity peaked in 2015 with nearly 15 robotics exits. Go...
(PDF) Which Industries Attract The Most Venture Capital
According to a report from Martin Prosperity, venture capital investment is heavily concentrated...
(Infographic) Smart Home Market Map : 67 Startups In Home Automation
Smart money VCs have participated in nearly 40 equity deals to more than 20 companies in the smar...
(PDF) PwC : Global Technology IPO Review - Q2 2016
The global technology IPO market began to look up in Q2 2016. The second quarter posted 40% seque...
Ford and Baidu Put $150M Behind LiDAR for Self-Driving Cars
Carmakers continue to look to the Valley for help paving the way for the future of cars – Ford h...
Consumer Startups Are a Great Investment. Here's Why
Last month, the $1 billion acquisition of Dollar Shave Club by CPG giant Unilever prompted headli...
This is Why It's More Difficult to Climb The Earnings Ladder
A worker’s starting position has become more predictive of their final position across the incom...
