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...Saint Francis High School in Mountain View invested $15,000 in Snap’s seed round, after kids at the school were the first to tell a venture capitalist about the app....
...Other sports ventures in Florida have been troublesome, meaning the Beckham MLS venture will not necessarily get an easy ride....
...“Buying Beats is a good sign that Apple is pretty much out of ideas and unable to come up with an anti-Spotify strategy,” tweeted Om Malik, veteran tech writer turned venture-capital investor, damning Beats...
...Cisco and IBM are already Skolkovo partners, as are smaller ventures such as US Parallels, a cloud technology specialist, and Moscow-based Frontier Ventures, a venture capital fund....
...EMC worked on the recent sale of Paris Saint-Germain football club and advises sports leagues on media rights negotiations: it also structured Sony ATV’s $300m of debt financing for its 50 per cent stake...
...Note the 2008-2009 slump in these data from the NVCA (contained in the Saints report discussed below): Enter private, online exchanges....
...Some of the flows were said to be related to Saint-Gobain’s offer for plasterboard maker BPB....
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