Eric Ly, a co-founder of professional networking site LinkedIn, has signed on to be a venture partner at Wellington Partners. Ly says he'll be helping the London- and Munich-based firm with its plans to expand into the United States. This sounds like a surprising move for him - after all, [...]

What you see above is not a video or a slide show, it is a Flowgram. If you click on it, you will be taken to a full-screen player with what appears to be a screencast with a voiceover. Except that you can control the pages by scrolling up and [...]

Drama is the predominant theme in this young entrepreneur's world: From building a global brand based on $500-plus stilettos, to closing her third round of private equity financing to the tune of $360 million last year, Mellon doesn't do anything halfway - including the recent renovation of her London office.[...]

Miasole, the thin-film solar cell maker that is the third member of a triumvirate of heavily-funded CIGS startups including Heliovolt and Nanosolar, has been pretty quiet since losing its CEO and laying off 40 workers late last year. In the interim, there has been plenty of speculation that it was [...]

ForeScout Technologies has raised $8 million from previous investors, Venture Beat reported. The firm makes a security platform combining clientless network access control and intrusion prevention, and saw 80 percent growth last year. The funding was provided by Accel Partners, Amadeus Capital Partners, Meritech Capital Partners and Pitango Ventures. Go [...]

If you asked me who my inspirations were when I started to blog, they would have been: Seth Godin - because his blog was my favorite read at the time (and still is in my top 10)Dave Winer - because Scripting News was the first blog I ever read (when [...]