Roundup, deals, Life Sciences Bruce V. Bigelow wrote: It’s hard for any company to raise capital in this recession, but several San Diego life sciences startups disclosed last week they had done just that. A few bright spots also appeared during a local seminar on mergers and acquisitionsR...

Over at Ars , Ryan Paul has an appropriately sharp-tongued response to the Mozilla Foundation’s troubling move to become a cheerleader for the European Commission’s ongoing antitrust efforts against Microsoft. Apparently Mozilla will assist the EC’s investigation “by offering...

How Bill Gates got into my home dressed as a dinosaur By Nury Vittachi * Microsoft boss Bill Gates has just retired. The first thing he is going to do is sit in a huge pile of money, throw it up in the air and then roll around in it.                 ...

This Week in Lumps #53 [24/06 - 30/06] · After a 2 week absence, I’ve been reunited with my mended laptop, and I return to a smorgasbord of news and fun stuff. In the fortnight away (which is actually 4 weeks since you last heard from me), amongst other things, I managed to complete the story mod...

Even if you don’t much like Bill Gates, you can’t deny the influence he has had on the world of computers. As such, his decision to change his focus from his work at Microsoft to his charity work merited a special, hour long edition of The Money Programme, shown last night, looking back ...

Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn has asked for it, although he has gone all kittenish now, after realizing his scheme to get Microsoft (MSFT) to buy Yahoo (YHOO) was over, once Yahoo signed on with Google (GOOG) to outsource some of its search-ad business. And then the New York Times’s...

Maybe it would be easier to sell Facebook to Microsoft for billions and billions, even though it is not likely you will. But, for the sake of argument, let’s take the opposing position about the best future for the hot social-networking site. In other words, make a friendly Microsoft takeover ...

CBS buys CNET. Comcast buys Plaxo. Ask.com buys Dictionary.com. There is something happening here, and what it is ain't exactly clear. But those of us with memories that extend to the previous millennium do detect a bit of irrational exuberance. Remember when we partied like it was 1999? We are star...

Last week we took a look at where the various browsers stood up against each other in terms of market share. I was shocked (to say the least) when Internet Explorer triumphantly came out on top with a 1.22% market share increase. That really hit hard for Firefox who’s market share was sent spi...

Netscape cofounder and propagator of porn social networks Marc Andreessen will join Facebook's board of directors, Kara Swisher reports. Andreessen will join current board members Accel Partners Jim Breyer, Clarium Capital's Peter Thiel, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Andreessen is the chairman o...