When the team at Twitter Inc. hatched the idea of producing a mobile device dedicated to “tweeting” they contacted Jonathan Kaplan, founder of a gadget company that experienced one of the most successful exits for venture investors in 2009.

Some – but not too much – government involvement is good for venture capital. That’s a conclusion of a Globalization of Alternative Investments report issued Tuesday sponsored by the World Economic Forum. The research project, led by Harvard...

Holiday “e-cards” have become popular in recent years, first as a way to cut back on paper clutter but increasingly as an outlet for ever-more creative messages. Some venture firms have gotten in on the act, as we’ve seen recently with Onset...

The global IPO market has been more lemon than lemonade in recent years. But even as the U.S. market shows some signs of life, venture capital investors in China are souring on U.S. exchanges and turning instead to domestic markets and Hong Kong for...

This morning’s roundup of the latest venture capital news and analysis across the Web: Art by Mike Lucas A Smart Smart-Grid Investment? - Silver Spring Networks is making quite a statement in the smart-grid space. In less then 30 days, Silver Spring...

For developers and investors in mobile technology, 2009 was the year of the iPhone, when consumers caught the fever for Internet-enabled phones and the applications built for them. So what should we expect in 2010? At the AlwaysOn Venture Summit in...