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Palo Alto-based Nauto today announced a new partnership with three major automakers, including Toyota and BMW, and insurance company Allianz. The four new partners also invested in the venture-ba...

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Venture investor Bryan Stolle remembers being introduced to Coupa Software and CEO Rob Bernshteyn in 2010 — about a year after he had taken the helm at the expense management software company. ...

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Autopilot, an SF-based tech startup, is taking on competitors like Marketo and MailChimp with a low-cost marketing product aimed at small businesses. It all started when a rude email auspiciously...

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Bloom Energy, which made a splash on "60 Minutes" at the height of the Silicon Valley clean energy bubble in 2010, has reportedly filed secret plans for an IPO. The Wall Street Journal cited unna...

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Donald Trump likes to say he's sooo good at business, and indeed he is. The latest Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans shows he's worth $3.7 billion, which is much less than he's said he's w...

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Silicon Valley legend Steve Wozniak isn’t shy about sharing his thoughts, or admitting when he’s wrong. That candor has made him consistently one of the best interviews in tech journalism tod...

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Despite huge new venture funds being raised, VC activity in the third quarter continues to decline. There was nearly $15 billion invested in 1,810 deals between July and September, according to a...

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Smartphone maker Samsung has acquired San Jose-based artificial intelligence startup Viv, whose founders built the original platform powering Siri. Terms of the deal were not immediately released...

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Theranos will fire 340 employees as it closes its clinical labs and Theranos Wellness Centers, wrote founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes in a blog post Wednesday afternoon. The closing of the labs a...

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Shares of Coupa Software jumped by about 85 percent in its Wall Street debut on Thursday after the company hit the top of its IPO price range and raised $133.2 million. That put the market cap fo...

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