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Why Microsoft Is Buying Skype for $8.5 Billion
Skype CEO Tony Bates Updated at 12 midnight. Microsoft has bought Skype for $8.5 billion, in an all-cash deal. The deal closed a few hours ago. is close to finalizing a deal to buy Skype for between $7...
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All in the family: A new kind of billion-dollar cleantech fund
Cleantech investing may not have produced many big exits or returns so far, yet it keeps attracting investors who believe they can do better using the lessons learned over the years. Enter the...
View ArticleSilicon Valley should wake up to clawback culture
There’s been a storm around Skype ever since former employee Yee Lee let rip and accused the company’s investors, Silver Lake, of screwing employees over in its $9 billion sale to Microsoft (s msft)....
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Cleantech apocalypse? No, but it’s cyclical
The cries declaring that cleantech is headed for an apocalypse keep on getting louder. The latest is an article this month in Foreign Affairs on The Crisis in Clean Energy, which is getting attention...
View ArticleYet More Reports Of DST, Alibaba And Silver Lake Swarming Over Yahoo
Not a new development, but further confirmation that there may be one on the horizon. China’s Alibaba, Russian investor Digital Sky Technologies and U.S.-based VC firm Silver Lake are preparing a joint...
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Who knew? Data center segment is hot, hot, hot!
Most people think of data centers as a big, stodgy category, but in this era of cloud computing, it shouldn’t really come as a surprise that the sector has been hot, with more hotness to come. As more...
View ArticleDropbox signs superstars Bono, The Edge — as investors
The news that Dropbox now counts a couple of rockstars among its investors brought a few chuckles: the cloud startup’s team posing with U2’s Bono and The Edge certainly made for a little fun viewing....
View ArticleExclusive: Silver Lake eyes digital media, makes Ex-NDS CEO Dave Habiger...
Private equity firm Silver Lake has tapped Dave Habiger to expand its work in the digital media space. Habiger, who until last year served as the CEO of U.K.-based pay TV set-top box maker NDS, is...
View ArticleWho will get Hulu? No clear answer at close of latest bidding
The Hulu rumor mill churns on. Friday marked the deadline for would-be buyers to submit bids for the over-the-top TV service but, even with the reported departure of one big contender, it’s hard to say...
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Silver Lake’s energy fund bucks cleantech freeze, keeps raising funds (thanks...
While cleantech venture capital investing dropped in 2012, there’s still investors that believe putting money into innovation around energy and resource management will pay off. Silver Lake’s cleantech...
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