investment

HootSuite Announces $60m Funding Raise

New funds comes alongside acquisition of "social telephony company" Zeetl

10 years ago

Google Capital Invests $50m In Real Estate Marketplace Auction.com

Auction.com deal is the latest from Google Capital investment arm

11 years ago

Intel Purchases Smartwatch Maker Basis For $100m

Acquisition of leading health band maker allows Intel to continue its development of wearable technology

11 years ago

Google Overtakes Intel To Become ‘World’s Top Dealmaker’

Search engine giant takes Intel’s crown as the largest buyer and supporter of tech firms over the last three years

11 years ago

Dyson Pledges £5 Million Investment In UK Robotics

Money from Dyson will contribute towards formation of new robotics lab at London Imperial College

11 years ago

IBM Considering Sale Of Semiconductor Business – Report

Goldman Sachs reportedly called in to examine possibility of sale

11 years ago

eBay Rejects Icahn’s Suggestion It Should Spin Off PayPal

Advice from super-investor is politely dismissed by auction site

11 years ago

Government Pledges Millions For Future Technologies

The government has pledged millions of pounds to help bring technologies of the future to market

11 years ago

Investors Launch Mobile Health Tech Mentorship Programme In Kansas

Sprint and investors Techstars are adding to Kansas City's startup scene with a three-month intensive mentorship programme focusing on mobile…

11 years ago

Big Data Firm MapR Technologies Closes $30m Funding Round

Hadoop distribution provider MapR has now raised a total of $59m, and plans to use its latest funding for worldwide…

12 years ago

Google Invests For Smarter Energy Use

Google has invested £1.65m to help find ways to better improve energy usage and conservation

12 years ago

Google Boosts Wind Power With Texas Investment

Eric Schmidt's outfit pumps money into renewable energy

12 years ago

Intel Sinks £2.6bn Into Dutch Chip Firm ASML

Intel has invested a whooping $4.1 billion (£2.6bn) into the Dutch chip-equipment maker ASML

12 years ago

Social Coding Platform GitHub Gets $100m Investment

Having become a central resource for software developers, GitHub has now accepted its first outside investment, with plans to make…

12 years ago

LeWeb 2012: Branson Backs $10m Codecademy Financing

Codecademy announces $10m of funding, as Branson looks to expand his investment in tech start-ups

12 years ago

Silicon Valley Bank Opens London Branch

The bank wants to have 1,500 UK tech start-ups as clients in three years

12 years ago

Facebook Co-Founder Saverin Renounces US Citizenship

Brazilian-born Eduardo Saverin has 'de-friended' the US in a move that may reduce his tax bill ahead of Facebook's record-breaking…

13 years ago

LeWeb London Launches Start-Up Competition

Organisers will throw money at mobile applications that are Faster Than Real Time

13 years ago

Russian Silicon Valley Innovators Seek UK Collaboration

A delegation from the Skolkovo Foundation, the Russian equivalent of Silicon Valley, visited the UK seeking co-operation and investment, Max…

13 years ago

Microsoft Brings Startup Accelerator To UK

Microsoft's new BizSpark Plus programme for boosting start-up growth has arrived in the UK and other countries

13 years ago

Technology In Ghana: A Blessing Or A Curse?

Ghana is at the forefront of Africa's technological development, but can it overcome its chronic e-waste problem, asks Sophie Curtis

13 years ago

Tech Firms To Spend Billions On New Chips In New York

IBM, Intel and Samsung are set to invest billions for new chip facilities in New York State

13 years ago

Why London Needs Tech Entrepreneurs

London could be a hotbed of tech innovation, if it could generate more of a local buzz, says Martin Warner

13 years ago

Intel Goes On £15m Investment Spree

Intel is investing $24m into software companies related to cloud services, embedded computing and security

13 years ago

US Electric Utilities Investing In Secure Smart Grids

Investment in cyber-security to protect smart grids will increase as utilities upgrade control systems

13 years ago

$300 Million Set Aside For Ultrabook Developers

Intel’s investment arm laying out $300 million to encourage ultrabook hardware and software partners

13 years ago

Wind Power Bid Pushes Google’s Green Funding To $400m

Google's $55 million investment will power 450,000 homes and boost California's green power by 30 percent

13 years ago

Nine Out Of Ten To Get 25Mbps Broadband By 2015

The culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has set a target of 'superfast' broadband for 90 percent of UK citizens by 2015

14 years ago

Budget Missed Incentives For IT Savings, Says Socitm

The Chancellor should have invested in local authorities to save more and reduce the economy's carbon footprint

14 years ago

Cisco Invests In The Future Of London’s Tech City

Cisco has got behind the government's push to nurture a technology incubation zone in East London

14 years ago