The 2011 list of the Top 100 Private Companies in North America proves that North America does not suffer from a lack of creativity or technological prowess.
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The 2011 list of the Top 100 Private Companies in Europe brings proves that Europe does not suffer from a lack creativity or technological prowess.
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The Red Herring editorial team has selected the 2011 Red Herring 100 North America Short-List from a pool of hundreds across the region. The Finalists are evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their respective industries.
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Thanks to an $8 billion Microsoft bet, you may soon use the Xbox for more than gaming, but a virtual Jetson style video phone. Microsoft dolled out a whopping $8.5 billion for its purchase of Skype, a price that's three times what the company was worth 18 months ago.
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The Red Herring editorial team has selected the 2011 Red Herring 100 Europe Finalists from a pool of hundreds across Europe. The Finalists are evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their respective industries.
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This week, 3,000 people converged to the Milken conference at the Beverly Hills Hilton in Los Angeles. Not withstanding the glamorous locations and grounds for this large reunion, the event deserves its reputation as one of the most amazing platforms of the year.
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Paul Maeder became Chairman of the NVCA less than ten days ago. At a time when some reliable industry investment leaders such as Brooks Zug from Harbourvest view 2011 as the beginning of a positive cycle, we wanted to hear from Mr. Maeder. As usual, we were not disappointed by his candor.
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McAfee, the computer securities company, has lit the universal bat signal high in the sky with a dire warning: Hackers are out to steal company's secrets, and have never had a better opportunity, thanks to a proliferation of mobile technology that's led to a de-centralization of the workplace and the transition to the cloud.
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In this internet age, most of us have more passwords in our brains than business cards in our wallets, easily falling out to be lost, or simply buried underneath all that mental clutter.
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Greylock Partners, the venture capital firm, recently announced its expansion of an early stage fund to $1 billion in order to start a growth fund to begin the next phase of its strategies for investments.
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Everything's going online these days, from the cloud to the fridge to the washing machine. In fact, McAfee expects the number of devices connected to the Internet to grow to 50 billion in 2020, as more every day objects, from alarm clocks to coffee pots to parking meters, have an online presence
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Launched in August of last year, Runa Capital, which specializes in early stage Russian startups, has upped its investment ante from $30 to $50 million.
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The US government has engaged a special email tool to bust through the censorship filters of foreign governments in order to deliver news and other information. The federal Broadcasting Board of Governors claimed to have used the email tool, known as Feed Over Email, or FOE, to send HTML links to sites that would otherwise be censored by China's government.
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The computer network of the Nasdaq Stock Exchange has repeatedly been hacked into over the past year, the Wall St. Journal reports.
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Continuing a tradition spanning 18 years, Red Herring is proudly accepting submissions for the annual Top 100 Europe and North America Private Companies Award.
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The operator of the Israeli tech blog newsgeek.co.il, Geekmedia, wants to help Israeli startups with a new incubation program dubbed Venturegeeks.
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Any anyone looking for funding knows, the US venture capital industry is downsizing. A new report from Dow Jones LP source provides the numbers that prove this trend continued throughout 2010.
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Cyberwar is a new reality for the 21st Century, one that the Baltic Republic of Estonia is not planning to fight with spears. The country made history in 2007 by being the first victim of a cyberwar as government, financial and media computer networks were paralyzed by a series of attacks that Estonia authorities now blame on the Russian government.
Quite familiar with invasion (from both the Soviets as well as the Nazis through much of the 20th
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China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology posted a statement stating that it's working “to fight illegal Internet phone service,” without stating specific actions to be taken.
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Red Herring is proud to announce the Finalists for the 2010 Red Herring Global Award. The Red Herring editorial team selected the most innovative companies from a pool of 1200 companies from across the world – the Finalists from its Red Herring Asia, Europe and North America Awards.
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