Hillary Clinton and Bernard Sanders are locked in a tight race — and there are big differences when it comes to the age of caucus-goers in Iowa who say they are supporting Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders.
More than 8 in 10 Democratic caucus-goers under 30 say they came to ...
I spend a lot of time in board meetings. Specifically, private company startup board meetings. Rooms filled with some of the most talented, bold, daring and dedicated people on the planet, devising solutions to some of the economy's toughest problems. More often than not, however, most of these board meetings fail. Despite the good intentions and great experience in the room, the…
The future of work is increasingly top of mind for tech investors, who have a range of opinions about whether and how to address the growing income inequality that appears driven, in some part, by the winner-take-all dynamics of technology and globalization. Longtime VC Steve Jurvetson told this reporter back in September that income inequality will "kill us long before climate…
Lexumo, a Cambridge, Massachusetts cloud service that continuously checks open source code to be sure it has the latest security updates, announced a solid $4.89 million seed round today. The round was led by Accomplice, .406 Ventures and Draper. What has Lexumo created to warrant that kind of financial attention? It indexed all of the open source code in the world and created a cloud…
Some more consolidation in the online measurement and analytics space: today comScore has announced that it has closed its $732 million deal to acquire Rentrak in an all-stock deal that brings together Rentrak's TV and cinema audience tracking business with comScore's business covering Internet and mobile audiences to better compete against the likes of Nielsen. The deal was…
Kaizen, a Tokyo- and San Francisco-based user interface marketplace and testing platform, plans to increase its presence in the United States after raising an $8 million Series B.
Verizon isn't the only carrier that wants to ramp up in ad tech to complement (and offset) its legacy business. Today, Norway-based Telenor announced that it has acquired Tapad, a New York-based ad tech startup co-founded by two Norwegians, Are Traasdahl and Dag Liodden, for $360 million "on a debt and cash-free basis." The price covers 95% of the company. Traasdahl…