Plenty happens each day—how to keep up with it all? Time to test your memory! --What route (reported on this week by The Observer) may have just made an enterprising author... MORE >
Twitter, the Web's main repository of personal oversharing, political dissent and tasteless self-promotion, is donning a suit and tie. The little blue bird has been perching in a spartan temporary New York City space since September, searching for the perfect spot for its first New York City headquarters. Now The Observer has learned that it plans to sublease Facebook's former digs at 340 Madison Avenue, according to a source with knowledge of the... MORE >
“I am tweeting right now,” Neil Diamond said Monday night in a room at the Waldorf-Astoria. “I’m just trying to communicate with people. Young people, old people, all kinds of... MORE >
On a recent Friday night, a 22-year-old in his first year of living in New York hosted a late get-together in his Little Italy apartment. Everyone there would call it a good party, but it decidedly lacked a... MORE >
Not as funny as the guy who took Rahm Emanuel's Twitter handle, but the person behind Anthony Weiner's campaign Twitter is dusting it off for the first time since... MORE >
When news of JP Morgan's new $1.2 billion digital growth fund first broke two weeks ago, the NY Post reported that a significant portion of that capital was earmarked for investment in... MORE >
New York's biggest banks can't seem to get enough of the top Web properties, despite balooning valuations. This morning, JPMorgan filed regulatory papers on a new $1.22 billion digital growth fund, twice as large as reported last week. According to Scott Walker at Venture Capital Dispatch, the fund seems to be geared toward buying private shares, not investing directly, as Goldman Sachs did with... MORE >
It's been clear for a while now that Bill Gross and his UberMedia empire were on a collision course with Twitter. Gross has been buying up a number of third-party clients, bringing more and more of the activity on Twitter under his control, 20% by some... MORE >
Following an appearance before the aspiring capitalist titans at Harvard Business School alongside fellow venture capitalist Jeff Bussgang, Fred Wilson highlights some of the insights he acquired from the experience... MORE >
During the last tech boom, JPMorgan was the principal backer for Flatiron Partners, Fred Wilson's first venture firm and the company that put Silicon Alley on the map. But by the middle of 2001 the banking bigwig was looking to wind Flatiron down, as a number of high-profile flops cut deep into the early home runs hit by Wilson and his co-founder Jerry Colonna. By the end of 2001, Flatiron essentially shut down for... MORE >
The late-stage gold rush for big name tech companies keeps heating up. JP Morgan announced a new $500-750 million fund today to invest in top technology firms like Facebook and Twitter. It will be interesting to see how JP Morgan handles these investments for U.S. clients, after watching rival Goldman Sachs botch an opportunity for their top-tier American customers to buy into... MORE >
While scanning the Web for any New York City events commemorating Abraham Lincoln's birthday on Saturday, I discovered that the 16th president, who was assassinated in April 1865, is, in fact, on... MORE >
Quick! If you were stranded on a desert island and you could only take 20 Twitter streams with you, who would it be? If you care about local news, you should pick these ones. That's according to NBC, which has curated a list of the most influential of the New York twiterati. Reuters reporter Felix Salmon made the list, as did Buzzfeed's Jon Steinberg and Neighborhoodr.com founder Anthony... MORE >
The upheaval, violence and riots in Egypt are immensely troubling. Even Anderson Cooper is getting beat up, poor guy. The mobs and looting and political turmoil are such that they can be totally disorienting. What is it really about? Why do people protest? Why is this happening, right now, in that... MORE >
VCs and startups are prone to tempestuous relationships. A young company forms powerful bonds with its early investors, but as it grows, it often finds itself increasingly playing the field. So it is with Twitter and Union Square Ventures. Wilson's USV was an early backer and evangelizer of the service, but by the third round of funding, as valuations passed 1 billion, USV decided to sit it... MORE >
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