July 7, 2015 For Start-Ups, How Many Angels Is Too Many? by MIKE ISAAC By MIKE ISAAC The Silicon Valley investment frenzy has spurred so-called angel investors into earlier financing rounds, but there are downsides for both entrepreneur…
July 7, 2015 Sheryl Sandberg Joins SurveyMonkey’s Board by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY Ms. Sandberg, who lost her husband, Dave Goldberg, in May, is taking a seat on the online survey company he helped…
July 6, 2015 Reddit’s Chief Apologizes After Employee’s Dismissal by MIKE ISAAC By MIKE ISAAC Ellen Pao, chief executive of the online message board, made an apology in a post after users took down portions of…
July 6, 2015 Unicorn: A Fitting Label for Its Time and Place by FARHAD MANJOO By FARHAD MANJOO While Silicon Valley tried to separate tech winners from losers for decades, until 2013 it had not really coined a name…
July 6, 2015 New, Simple ‘Buy’ Buttons Aim to Entice Mobile Shoppers by CONOR DOUGHERTY and HIROKO TABUCHI By CONOR DOUGHERTY and HIROKO TABUCHI Companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest are trying to bridge the gap between smartphone browsing and desktop…
July 4, 2015 Uber Suspends UberPop in France and Awaits Court Ruling by ALISSA J. RUBIN and AURELIEN BREEDEN By ALISSA J. RUBIN and AURELIEN BREEDEN The company said the service would be suspended and remain inactive until a French court ruled on…
July 3, 2015 Reddit Moderators Shut Down Parts of Site Over Employee’s Dismissal by MIKE ISAAC By MIKE ISAAC The move affected nearly 300 individual discussion areas — so-called subreddits that focus on individual topics like technology, art and business….
July 3, 2015 Renée James, President of Intel, Is Leaving the Company by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY The chief executive is using Ms. James’s departure as an opportunity to make sweeping organizational changes. Published: July 2, 2015 at…
July 3, 2015 Chiefs of T-Mobile and Sprint Spar on Twitter by DINO GRANDONI By DINO GRANDONI The penchant of T-Mobile’s chief executive to bluntly criticize the competition has appeared to rub off on the chief executive of…
July 3, 2015 In Tests, Yahoo Uses Google to Power Search Results and Ads by VINDU GOEL By VINDU GOEL Yahoo is turning to the world’s dominant provider of web searches to power some of its own search results. The tests…