IT, internet video, Media Wade Roush wrote: These days, there’s no sense in producing video for just one platform, like cable TV. Media companies also want to get their content out to consumers via the Web, mobile phones, game consoles, video-on-demand networks, and other platforms. The proble...

Image via CrunchBase, source unknown Wow!!! Accel Partners just raised $1bn in this awful market. I have never had Accel as an investor in any of my companies but over the years I have met some of the partners such as Simon Levene had a good overall impression of the firm overall (although my favori...

In a move BoomTown is still trying to noodle over, longtime Facebook exec Matt Cohler (pictured here) will be leaving the social networking site to become a general partner at Benchmark Capital. Cohler, who is currently Facebook’s VP of Product Management, was one of its earliest hires and, as...

Oh the sweet irony of Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg getting awarded a big round glass object, suitable for mantel-showing-off, from Harvard types. Especially since he is now the school’s second most famous tech mogul dropout–after Microsoft’s Bill Gates. But that was the...

BoomTown was press-ganged into attending an afternoon showing of “Kung Fu Panda” with a pair of 6-year-olds (who afterward hiii-yaaa-kicked every trash can in sight), or I would have posted Yahoo President Sue Decker’s letter to the troops she sent out today about the departure of ...

It's impressive that they have the cojones to admit the extremity of their oversight. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers would have had a much easier time of it to simply maintain their laser focus on green tech, pandemic and life sciences. They could have continued to ignore the sizable exits tha...

After BoomTown broke the news yesterday that top Google exec Sheryl Sandberg was tapped by Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg to be COO of the hot social-networking company, I talked with her and got the usual blah-blah quotes about scaling and growing operations and building a platform and how she wa...

Why does the idea of a marriage between Hollywood writers and VCs make me slightly queasy? But that’s just the feeling I got when I read the always sharp Joseph Menn of the Los Angeles Times, who penned an interesting piece earlier this week about writers in Hollywood turning to venture capita...

Kosmix, the Silicon Valley search engine company that focuses on specific topics, such as health, has raised $10 million more in backing. Kosmix is run by co-founders (including Venky Harinarayan, pictured left) who came close to buying Google in 1999 when they represented Amazon. Google was still a...