VENTURE popularity and VENTURE trends

Lionel holds the harmonious keys to our hearts! It seems America has Endless Love for music legend Lionel Richie, as his latest album Tuskegee just became 2012's second best-selling album! The dancer who defies gravity comes second only to our lady-love Adele, who doesn't seem to be budging from her crowning spot anytime soon. Felicitations!! AND, his recent musical [...]

History made, but Congressional debate over NASA's venture with private firms is not over.

Doug Dull, Maryland’s associate athletic director for media relations, is resigning to launch a sports communications firm, university officials announced Friday. A Maryland graduate, Dull will retain a business relationship with his alma mater following his July 6 departure, advising the athletics department on communications issues and media-relations strategy. According to a release issued b...

May 25 (Reuters) - Dell Inc is in talks to buy Quest Software Inc, which had earlier agreed to be bought by Insight Venture Partners for $2 billion, Bloomberg reported, quoting sources.

Baseball great’s company released ‘Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning’ in February, missed payments on loans from state of Rhode Island

I pushed myself out of my musical comfort zone this week and headed to the Wits Linder Auditorium to watch a performance by Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra.

Connecting your home to the Internet doesn’t necessarily involve purchasing new, expensive appliances and gadgets. A growing handful of startups…

This is guest post by Julia Szopa , program director at the blackbox.vc incubator in Silicon Valley which specialises in moving European startups into the US. It is not uncommon for European entrepreneurs to come to the Silicon Valley to learn how to launch globally. However, they often play “the startup game” by the wrong rules. With scarce venture resources in Europe, founders lea...

Product design is difficult. Venture capitalists joke that 'hardware' should be two four letter words because of all the profanity?entrepreneurs?use when things go wrong in production -- which they invariably do. But rookie designer Julia Hu is the exception that proved the rule. She had a vision for a sleep-tracking gadget called the Lark. Within ...

Francois Carrillo is best known for the creation of Domaining.com, the go-to news aggregator in the Domain Investing world. If you look at other industries like affiliate marketing, SEO, startups, etc. there is nothing like this. This one site has without a doubt changed the Domain Investing space forever and I’d venture a guess that [...]

The venture capital firm co-founded by Vinod Khosla is leading a $15 Million second round funding towards Liquid Metal Battery. Started by MIT professor Donald Sadoway, the company has already bagged investments from Bill Gates and Total

GENEVA, May 24 (Reuters) - Swiss-based commodities trader Trafigura and U.S. aluminium producer Ormet Corp have formed a joint venture to acquire bauxite, alumina and aluminium projects, they said...

When a whale shark would venture into their territory, the fishermen caught fewer fish. Something had to be done.

It’s a meritocracy. I have no doubt that there are pockets of issues. I can only speak about Sequoia, we have quite a few women partners. –Sequoia Capital partner Greg McAdoo, answering a panel questions at TechCrunch Disrupt about whether there’s sexism in the venture capital industry

BUSINESS TOURISTS from Britain – or more specifically the “meetings, incentives, conferences and events” sector (Mice) – are the focus of Tourism Ireland’s latest Twitter marketing venture, which it is calling a “t’weetour”.

Rashtriya Ispat Nigam (RINL) will sign a pact with iron ore miner NMDC for a joint venture that aims to set up a 336-km slurry pipeline and a pellet plant with an investment of Rs 2,200 crore.

Queens Park Rangers will venture into Asia for a lucrative summer pre-season tour, playing two friendlies in Thailand and Malaysia.

Adrian Beecroft said the move would make businesses more likely to take people on, and expressed frustration that the Conservatives had not been 'firmer' with Lib Dem colleagues.

Adrian Beecroft, a venture capitalist, calls business secretary 'a socialist who found a home in the Lib Dems'Vince Cable is a "socialist" who has blocked action to liberalise employment laws that could give a £50bn boost to the economy, according to a Tory donor who wrote a controversial report on cutting red tape.In a sign of some Tories' deep frustrations with the coalition, Adrian Beecroft ...

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the blue-chip Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for its early investments in Google, is being sued by an investment partner.

A year after its launch, does the Business Growth Fund deserve praise for the way it is funding medium-sized firms or criticism for 'crowding out' existing venture investors?

Tokio (ots/PRNewswire) - NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) gab am 21. Mai bekannt, dass das Unternehmen am 19. Mai eine Vereinbarung mit Brunei International Gateway (BIG) abgeschlossen habe. Die Vereinbarung mit diesem Joint Venture aus Regierungs- und Telekommunikationsunternehmen …

Only Nixon could go to China, only Clinton could pass welfare reform and only Cory Booker could draw blood by calling out Barack Obama. That's because Republicans have called President Obama every name in the book over the past four years --from Marxist to fascist to racist. During that time, the right-wing noise machine spewed out such a steady stream of insults toward Mr. Obama that most swin...

Michael Moritz, a venture capitalist who provided early backing for firms including Google and Yahoo!, is stepping back from management at Sequoia Capital for medical reasons.

David Cameron is preparing to throw his weight behind a report from venture capitalist Adrian Beecroft, due to be published this week, which will recommend an overhaul of employment regulations.

www.UseFreeSMS.com , a new online venture aimed at mobile phone users, is pleased to announce a brand-new service allowing anyone to send unlimited free SMS text messages to any mobile phone, anywhere in the world, capable of receiving such mes...

Hugh Pickens writes "Steve Blank, a professor at Berkeley and Stanford and serial entrepreneur from Silicon Valley, says that the the Facebook IPO is the beginning of the end for Silicon Valley as we know it. "Silicon Valley historically would invest in science, and technology, and, you know, actual silicon," says Blank. "If you were a good venture capitalist you could make $100 million." But t...

Bono, U2's lead singer and rocker-in-chief, has a reason to break out in song today: his investment in Facebook could make him one of the richest musicians on the planet, potentially eclipsing Paul McCartney, depending on how the social network's stock performs after its first day of trading Friday. The musician, however, demurred when asked about how Facebook would affect his net worth. ...

Andrew Leonard of Salon interviewed Charles Ferguson (director of Inside Job, the documentary about the unpunished criminals who caused the current financial collapse) about his new book, Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America Ferguson: I recently was at a dinner in New York City and one of the people there [...]

An ambitious for-profit health-care venture has gone out of business, barely a year after investing in an opulent 'executive health' clinic in Toronto’s financial district

Hot social network Pinterest just landed a sizable cash infusion: The company raised $100 million in a financing round by e-commerce giant Rakuten. Existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners and FirstMark Capital also participated in the round.

If the new CEO cannot solve the UK venture capital group’s problems, liquidation seems desirable

RADIOLOGY-BASED FACEBOOK GAME GOES VIRAL - - 2012 is the year for many innovations in Radiology, but who would have thought that a Facebook game could be one of the most popular. - - Ziltron (San Diego) have recently released a Facebook web-game...

The Obama campaign attacked Mitt Romney as a "vampire" who amassed his vast personal fortune as a venture capitalist by exploiting ordinary workers, a day after it emerged the President and his wife Michelle are worth up to $8.3m (£5.2m).

Construction group CRH has transferred its 49 per cent shareholding in Secil, the Portuguese cement producer, to Semapa (SGPS, S.A.), its former joint venture partner, for a sum of €564.5 million.

LAHORE – Pakistan Industrial & Traders Association Front (PIAF) has demanded of the Federal Finance Minister to immediately release funds for Thar Coal Project which is the most important venture for, not only the industrial sector but for the national economy.In a press statement issued here Tuesday, Chairman PIAF Sohail Lashari while showing concern over the reports that Finance ...

LightSquared said in its bankruptcy filing Monday, it will continue to try to win over the Federal Communications Commission to get its satellite venture up and running — a process that can take up to two years. Read full article >>

US President Barack Obama's camp unleashed a fierce assault on his Republican foe Mitt Romney on Monday, lambasting the former venture capitalist as a "vampire" who got rich by gutting ailing firms.

With the release of a new two-minute (!) negative ad from the Obama campaign, it’s now official: Mitt Romney’s perfect record of being attacked over his Bain Capital days is still intact.OK, there’s an asterisk: Technically, Bain didn’t come up in Romney’s first campaign, for the 1994 Republican Senate nomination in Massachusetts. But that was barely a race: His opponent, John Lakian, had been ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - For the handful of venture capitalists who backed Facebook in its early days, a huge financial payoff is not the only thing they may be celebrating when the company goes public later this week.

Seven Up! was never designed as a long-running venture, but it proved so popular that makers returned to subjects at 14, when they were 21, and so on. Now they’re 56.

Boyfriend Will Adamovicz, an American student she met at Oxford University, will certainly be pleased with her venture into the dance world.

Authorities in China on Thursday began implementing a new program that orders the "Big Four" global auditing companies dominating the Chinese market to practise as local firms after their joint venture agreements expired.

CHINA’S MOST popular rock star Cui Jian, this country’s answer to Bruce Springsteen, is on the screen in full 3D, watched by an audience of journalists, venture capitalists and TV celebrities.

THE World Bank's private sector development financing arm is planning to invest in Rio Tinto's Simandou iron ore mine in Guinea.

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The family of Junior Seau is revisiting the decision to allow his brain to be examined for possible injuries from his football career.

Satyamev Jayate opened to full houses on Sunday morning and pretty much everyone seemed to be hooked to the show that was aired.

Still haunted by the abduction of two Italian hostages, Odisha's Balangir district officials have warned five German tourists to never to venture into the Red zone again.

Zur Ölförderung in den Nordmeeren ruft Russland einen weiteren Konzern auf den Plan: Nach den Ölmultis Exxon Mobil und Eni wird auch Statoil aus Norwegen an einem entsprechenden Joint Venture beteiligt.

HONG KONG/PERTH (Reuters) - The cost of Royal Dutch Shell and PetroChina's Australian joint venture LNG may rise as much as 50 percent from initial estimates, which could force the companies to delay development, a source close to the project said on Friday.

Legendary lead singer, Bruce Dickinson, rocked the 80′s with his band, Iron Maiden. A generation of headbangers swore to his name, even after he split from the band in 1993, but not before hits such as “Flight of Icarus” made the top of the British charts. Having sold more than 85 million records, Bruce Dickinson [...]

Castlight Health aims to shed light on the costs of medical procedures. Castlight Health, a startup that lets self-insured employers and their employees comparison shop for medical procedures, raised $100 million in Series D funding this week. That's reportedly one of the largest venture rounds on record in health IT and could signal an IPO down the road. 

Microsoft teamed up today with bookselling giant Barnes & Noble in a venture aimed at grabbing a bigger market share of electronic books.

News that Microsoft has sunk $300 million into a venture with Barnes & Noble sends a clear signal that the computing giant and the bookseller aim to shake up the e-book market with new ammo in their fight against Amazon and Apple.

Shares of Netflix (NFLX) were down 3.1% in recent trading, on news that Apple (AAPL) is working to ink a deal to stream movies owned by EPIX on its devices, including its long-awaited TV. After the bell on Friday, Reuters reported that Apple began negotiations earlier this year with EPIX–a venture of Lions Gate Entertainment (LGF), [...]

Prices of commodities would have to reach absurd levels to make the venture profitable

ANDREW Denton's new game show might focus on obscure words but his latest TV venture is not just for the cryptic crossword crowd

"The most important members of the team, then, may not be the entrepreneurs and venture capitalists who put up the drive and the money, nor the engineers who build the hardware that makes it all possible, but the economists who try to work out the effect on the price of platinum when a mountain of the stuff arrives from outer space." ....aus dem economist hi ho hiho:) ....

Google Inc executives Larry Page and Eric Schmidt are among those bankrolling a venture to survey and eventually extract precious metals and rare minerals from asteroids that orbit near Earth, the company said on Tuesday

Venture capital firm makes a bold philanthropic pledge.

Backed by Google's bosses -- and director James Cameron -- Planetary Resources plans to mine asteroids using unmanned rockets ... and a moon base.

SEATTLE (AP) -- Space-faring robots could be extracting gold and platinum from asteroids within 10 years if a new venture backed by two Silicon Valley titans and filmmaker James Cameron goes as planned....

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Google Inc executives Larry Page and Eric Schmidt and filmmaker James Cameron are among those bankrolling a venture to survey and eventually extract precious metals and rare minerals from asteroids that orbit near Earth, the company said on Tuesday.

Braskem Idesa is set to start construction of its giant Etileno XXI project in Mexico in May, an official from the joint venture between Brazilian petrochemicals company Braskem (NYSE: BAK) and Mexica...

Violence in Hama, the city's worst in months, added a dangerous new aspect to the UN team's work: that the Syrian regime might exact deadly revenge against those who feel empowered to venture into the streets because of the UN observers' presence.

Digital Champion Martha Lane Fox has launched Go ON UK, a new initiative to encourage businesses and charities to use the web more productively.

SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's hot Internet sector is facing a problem it is unaccustomed to: a lack of money.

Trash hauler puts money up for smaller entrepreneurs to develop technology to turn garbage into energy

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt and billionaire co-founder Larry Page have teamed up with "Avatar" director James Cameron and other investors to back an ambitious space exploration and natural resources venture, details of which will be unveiled next week.

Tony Hayward’s oil venture Genel Energy has been lambasted for revealing an £11m payday for the former BP boss on the day of the second anniversary of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

The Chairman of BCBG has been accused in a lawsuit of being a "narcissistic braggart," a liar and a cheat, and it's all over a business venture to get Walmart to hock Playboy condoms.According to the suit, obtained by TMZ, BCBG Chairman Max Azria…

As a new interest in online education emerges, Coursera seeks to expand its reach with $16 million in venture capital and offerings through more schools.

MOSCOW (AP) -- ExxonMobil and Russian oil giant Rosneft could invest over $500 billion in a joint venture to explore for and produce oil in the Arctic and the Black Sea....

Schmiergeld und ein zusammengeschlagener Manager: Der Essener Chemiekonzern Evonik ist bei einem Joint Venture in China offenbar an kriminelle Partner geraten. Die Essener wollen jetzt so schnell wie möglich aus der Gemeinschaftsfirma aussteigen.

Alno sucht sein Heil in China. Mit einem chinesischen Partner gründet der Küchenhersteller ein Gemeinschaftsunternehmen. Alno-Chef Müller wehrt sich gegen den Vorwurf, überzogene Beraterverträge abgeschlossen zu haben.

Rosneft und ExxonMobil besiegeln weitere Partnerschaft

KHULUBUSE Zuma's role in a collapsed mining venture will cost him three luxury vehicles and other household items at an upcoming auction.

Review in a Hurry: Venture into the Woods for laughs and scares, stay for the commentary on our sadistic, voyeuristic culture—it's like Scream spliced with The Hunger Games. A twisty...

New banking venture NBNK submits a fresh bid proposal to buy 632 Lloyds bank branches, putting it back in competition with the Co-operative Group.

Jessica Alba has sent new mother Hilary Duff a box of baby goodies made by her business venture The Honest Company.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Oprah Winfrey says creating her new cable network is turning out to be the climb of her life....

Red Ventures an Internet marketing firm, has just purchased HomeInsurance.com. Red Ventures is headquartered in Fort Mill where it has about  800 employees at the and also has operations in Miramar, Fla. and San Antonio, Texas. Tim Kullick, an executive vice president and head of Red Ventures insurance division, is quoted as saying in the CharlotteObserver.com, as saying “HomeInsurance.com fit ...

Billionaire Gina Rinehart's plan to develop one of Australia's biggest new iron ore mines took a leap forward after a Korea-Japan consortium agreed to pay $3.67 billion for a 30% stake in the Roy Hill venture.

Government's energy policy dealt "devastating blow" as companies end venture to build nuclear power plants in Britain.

One person has died and three more are feared dead in what’s being described as a possible human-smuggling venture into Canada gone badly awry.

LONDON (Reuters) - British banking venture NBNK is waiting on the sidelines to see if it can make a fresh approach to Lloyds should Lloyds' planned sale of 632 bank branches to The Co-Operative...

At the root of our anxiety about food lies something that is common to all humans — what Paul Rozin has called the “omnivore’s dilemma.” This means that unlike, say, koala bears, whose diet consists only of eucalyptus leaves and who can therefore venture no further than where eucalyptus trees grow, our ability to eat a large variety of foods has enabled us to survive practically anywhere on the...

Die Citigroup halbiert ihren Anteil an der türkischen Akbank. Insgesamt kommen im ersten Quartal Abschreibungen von mehr als zwei Milliarden Dollar auf die US-Bank zu. Morgan Stanley plant derweil, ein gemeinsames Joint Venture aufzulösen.

Corporate venture-capital investors are again flocking to Silicon Valley, driven by the hope of finding innovative new technology and the fear of missing out on the next big thing.

When Golden State Warriors fans booed owner Joe Lacob on Monday night, the venture capitalist was visibly upset, not least because he was standing at center court trying to retire Chris Mullin's number 17, and had to abandon his speech as the booing went on and on and on, in a style long embraced by the Bay Area.

Jaguar Land Rover and Chery Automobile agree a joint venture that should pave the way for production of Jaguar and Land Rover models in China.

See what happens when celebs venture underground on New York City's mass transit

A new online programming venture bankrolled by the world's richest man will launch with the return of a veteran U.S. television personality — Larry King.

Just like humans have astronauts and mountain climbers, honeybee societies have their own brave explorers: scouts, the bees that venture out to find new food sources. A new study examines scouts' brains and finds that novelty-seeking in humans and bees seems to be based on some of the same genes. from ScienceNOW Daily News

You’ve probably used their technologies or shopped in their stores. But would you trust them to fly you into space? Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen is the latest to join the commercial space race with his new venture, Stratolaunch Systems. Stratolaunch plans to build the world’s biggest airplane to launch rockets from the sky. The appeal of this kind of air launch is that the aircraft flies a ...

SELF-ASSESSMENT by Government in judging its own performance after just a year in office is always a risky venture. The danger is that it will be seen as a self-serving public relations event. For when a government marks its own scorecard, the result can never be in doubt. Successes are often exaggerated, failures minimised and the public is rarely impressed. For the electorate – ever mindful o...

ACTOR Russell Brand has been shooting scenes for his latest big-screen venture

THE CULTIVATION of caviar at a time of deep recession might be regarded as a foolhardy venture but it has not stopped one enterprising Kilkenny couple.

Persistent rumors about the next iPad sporting a 2048 x 1536-pixel display are looking more and more likely ahead of Wednesday's announcement. Especially now that Venture Beat is reporting that the new device will be dubbed the iPad HD. More »

The Aquabats, an indescribably odd group of musicians who first got together in the 1990s, have their work cut out for them in their newest venture, “The Aquabats! Super Show!”

BILLIONAIRE Gina Rinehart and Rio Tinto have received the final approval to develop their latest joint venture iron ore mine.

The number of people being treated fro malaria by the NHS has reached seven a day as holidaymakers venture further on their travels, exposing themselves to the illness.

There are many ways to go to Kandla, but not too many reasons to want to go there other than shipping or business, unless you want to see the world-famous donkeys from the Rann of Kutch. These are real class-A donkeys, they can run very fast and match most of the automobiles that venture into the Rann, but they don't run away. For some reason, they have a tendency to keep running in the same di...

Business venture conference in Athens addresses the challenges facing start-ups in Greece, and finds some reasons for hope

There’s been a flurry of activity in Foggy Bottom recently as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton prepares to venture up to the Hill for Tuesday’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the State Department budget. Read full article >>

Citi could lower the carrying value of a venture with Morgan Stanley.

It's beginning to feel a lot like 1999 again in the technology business. Tech venture capitalist Ben Horowitz talks about the growth spurt.

South African company may be booted out of a Harare venture to make way for warring ministers, who are also Mugabe loyalists.

For a new generation of technology company founders, money is the easy part.

Nabil Elaraby, the secretary general of the Arab League, boiled down the case against military intervention in Syria to three obstacles: elections, money (or the lack of it), and a Syrian army with 300,000 troops. In an interview with CNN on Thursday, the former Egyptian foreign minister sought to reassure Russia that the Arab League quest to seek Security Council support for i...

The actress, whose film opens Friday, is in no rush to find a new venture and is more content to focus on her personal life.

Waddington’s launches its first sale solely devoted to Canadian art made since 1980

MIAMI  - White House hopeful Mitt Romney has opened up a commanding double-digit lead in Florida against main rival Newt Gingrich in their Republican nomination battle, the latest two polls showed Sunday. Romney, a former Massachusetts governor and millionaire venture capitalist who is considered the party establishment’s favored candidate, was routing former House speaker Gingrich ...

Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh recently announced plans to open a new mixed-use performance space called Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael Calif Not to be outdone by his bandmate guitarist Bob Weir has now revealed his involvement in a similar venture just down the road from Lesh’s spot The two...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's nuclear watchdog has hardened its stance against a proposal by U.S.-Japan joint venture GE Hitachi to dispose of UK radioactive waste in a plutonium-burning reactor but has not ended talks.

THE COMPANY is valued at around $200 million, it recently raised $30 million in series C venture capital funding, and it’s all about you.

Federal judge rules that Gingrich, Huntsman, Santorum and Perry will not be included on Virginia's primary ballot, arguing that the GOP candidates filed their challenges too late. Romney Defends Bain Record in AdOPINION: Venture Capitalist Tells 'Truth' About Romney and BainReporter's Notebook: 'King of Bain'Perry Forgets Third Agency ... AgainHuckabee's McCain C...

England coach's West Park venture gives players a chance to meet public and prove they are not 'feckless drunkards.

Mehr als zwei Wochen nach der Bekanntgabe HPs, webOS unter die Open-Source-Lizenz stellen zu wollen, hat der Technologie Blog Venture Beat nun den Preis erfahren, welchen HP von eventuellen Käufern verlangt hat. mehr...

The technologist turned venture capitalist describes his approach to investing in technologies that can avert climate change.

I've always believed that the religious Zionist platform is one which purports to embrace Halacha... to facilitate one’s ability to venture into society.

Members of the Socialist Party today held a picket today outside an Esso garage in Ranelagh to protest at the involvement of its parent company, Exxon Mobil Corporation, in a joint venture with the Kazakh oil company KazMunaiGas.

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Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen announces plans to develop a commercial spaceship to launch rockets and carry cargo into space.

Nolan's final venture into the Batman series featured a lot of villain Bane.

89% of employees who deal with venture-capital fund investments are men, only 11% are women.

Youa.com, the lifestyle information platform owned by Chinese search engine Baidu, has gained joint investments from the venture capital organization IDG-Accel and Qiming Venture Partners, and it will now officially start independent operations. Youa.com, which was formerly a business department of Baidu, will reportedly be separated from its parent company and it has already completed [...]

Spurs boss criticizes complacency of big sides waiting for the knockout stages to begin, and reflects fondly on his side’s venture to the quarterfinals last season.

Berichte über ein geplantes Joint Venture mit dem US-Mobilfunkkonzern AT&T hat die Deutsche Telekom dementiert. Es gebe keinen „Plan B“. Die US-Tochter solle weiterhin an AT&T verkauft werden.

Der Widerstand der US-Wettbewerbshüter gegen den Verkauf von T-Mobile USA an den Branchenriesen AT&T lässt die Deutsche Telekom über Alternativen nachdenken. Statt eines Verkaufs könnte man doch auch zusammengehen, heißt es nun.

LAHORE (Agencies) - The national federation (PHF) on Tuesday expressed confidence that Pakistani players would stay away from the unsanctioned World Hockey Series in India in the wake of the organiser's claim that all those who have signed for the multi-million event will certainly play.The WSH, a joint venture of Nimbus Sport and Indian Hockey Federation (IHF), has not been given sanction by t...

Dealsandyou.com had previously raised $1.5 million in first round of funding from Group Buying Global A.G. Mayfield Fund, Norwest Venture Partners, Nokia Growth Partners and Intel Capital took part in the second round of finding.

A TNK-BP shareholder’s case lacked evidence that a failed deal cost the venture billions in profit, a Siberian court ruled.

The record-breaking simulated mission to Mars has ended with smiling faces after 17 months. Mars500's six brave volunteers stepped out of their 'spacecraft' Nov. 4, 2011 to be welcomed by the waiting scientists -- happy that the venture had worked even better than expected. Mars500, the first full-length, high-fidelity simulation of a human mission to our neighbouring planet, started 520 days e...

Fueled by a new $2.9 million venture capital investment the Domain Holdings Group is charging into the crowded domain development race with a completely revamped platform at DomainPower.com. The previous incarnation - Rapid Domain Builder - was an award winner but now it is even better.

Veteran actor Chen Peisi turns to French comedy for his latest dramatic venture. Chen Nan finds out more.

By Yi-Wyn Yen These days, getting a large handout from venture capitalists is rare. It's even tougher when your startup needs a lot of cash to compete with Google. Kosmix, however, has defied the odds. In late October, the plucky startup raised $20 million, led by Fortune's parent company Time Warner (TWX), by assuring investors that Google is not the only way to search on the Web. Kosmix says ...

Over a 24-year career, Roger McNamee has been one of the most successful investors in Silicon Valley, having made venture investments in Electronic Arts, Flextronics, Intuit, and Rambus, among many others. Then, in 2004, he launched Elevation Partners, a private equity partnership focused on media and entertainment content. Following his interview onstage at this week's Emerging Technologies C...