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Sometimes it's the minor technical choices that make a difference between the winners and losers. In the case of Soundcloud the minor difference that sets it apart may just be that it allows sound distributors to have their own URL.
With a stock price that is off over 87 percent over the last year, China Sunergy (CSUND :NASDAQ) is hitting the public relations trail two days before Christmas in attempt to gain some "Yule Tide spirit" for its shares by announcing they have shipped 1.
Despite the recent crash in solar stocks, Germany's Soltec held a grand opening ceremony for its 200 megawatt (MW) plant in San Diego.
AngelPad alum Buffer has raised $400K from an assortment of angels. The founders fare from Europe, came to San Francisco for AngelPad but have left for Hong Kong due to visa trouble.
Just when solar investors thought their investments couldn't drop any lower, First Solar (FSLR :NASDAQ) announced the equivalent of an investment "blackout" by lowering 2011 guidance and offering less than inspiring 2012 guidance.
Jive Software saw an opening gain of 26% after increasing both the share size and price of the deal. The company's stock opened at $15.
We see a lot of eye-browsed raised by Uber's $32M round led by Menlo Ventures, Jeff Bezos and Goldman Sachs who followed existing investor Benchmark Capital and angel investors.
We have had an awful experience with Gilt Groupe's Gilt City to report on. Here are the facts. You can decide if this is fraud or incompetence.
The New York Times says that Rovio (maker of Angry Birds) turned down a $2.25B offer from Zynga. The Times does not indicate how Zynga was going to pay for Rovio given that it does not have that kind of money sitting around.
Just in time for holiday shopping, China's Yingli Green Energy (YGE :NYSE) has teamed up with small business financing mogul CIT (CIT :NYSE) to offer financing for purchases and installations of solar panels from the its U.
Ebay is buying NYC-based based Hunch, say sources for around $80M, says Uncrunched. The company has raised less than $20M from General Catalyst Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, SV Angel and Khosla Ventures.