HelloWallet is a personal finance platform competing with Mint and raised $12M in Series B funding from Morningstar. Previously, raising $9 in Series A funding from Grotech Ventures and AOL co-founder Steve Case’s VC fund Revolution Ventures. Let’s compare new and improved features of HelloWallet to the well-respected and widely accepted features of Mint. Mint successfully hooks it’s ...
During Facebook’s early years Mark Zuckerberg was set on trying to keep the company hip. However over the last 18 months the 27 year old founder and CEO has been focusing on making Facebook look and sound more like a blue-chip business. “There was a period in Microsoft’s evolution where they said, we want to ...
In a recent hearing it was decided that large banks would no longer be able to rely on credit ratings to evaluate risks of assets they hold. The proposal was released Wednesday by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., Federal Reserve and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. This is a big first step toward ...
On Thursday Yelp Inc. announced to the Securities and Exchange Commission that it plans to raise as much as $100 million in an initial public offering of its shares, looking to join several young Internet companies that are moving to the public markets as they expand. Yelp Inc. is based out of San Francisco-based and ...
On the 25th of October International Business Machines Corp. announced that Virginia Rometty would be taking the place of Samuel Palmisano as chief executive officer. Ms. Rometty feared she would get too old and never be given the chance as she is only six years younger than Palmisano. Virginia worked at IBM for 30 years ...
Energy Education was recently named in a NY Times article as a top energy consultant to NY schools. Energy consultants have saved schools on average 20-40% in energy utility costs. These savings have helped schools balance their budgets, maintain staff numbers, and allow them to keep valuable programs.
Times are good for the yuan, which strengthened beyond 6.5 per dollar for the first time since 1993, Bloomberg.com reported. The currency’s seventh weekly gain, its longest winning streak since July 2008, may damp U.S. criticism of China’s exchange-rate policy before Vice Premier Wang Qishan heads to Washington next month for talks with Treasury Secretary ...
An article in The New York Times reported that the European Commission announced two broad-sweeping investigations into some of the world’s largest banks over their roles in the derivatives market, where trillions of dollars of financial instruments are controlled by a small number of companies. According to the article, the inquiry follows an examination of ...
Morgan Spurlock, the man who brought us “Super Size Me,”” the borderline disgusting documentary that followed the director along his 30-day diet consisting of only McDonald’s, is back again with another documentary that showcases the lunacy of American culture. Ben Silverman of Electus makes an appearance in the film, which debuted at last weekend’s Sundance Film Festival.
By now, you have likely seen the movie, or you’ve heard the story. At the very least, you have a Facebook account, so you must have some inkling of the legal drama the social network has become tangled up in. The case was widely considered dead, but last week Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss moved to ...
Companies base manufacturing decisions on financial criteria and often consider and discuss, recent politics, tax, regulatory, and intellectual property. ...
Social Media Week is kicking off today in 12 cities with over 1,000 events taking place around the world....
Enhanced Capital Partner (ECP) portfolio company, HelioVolt Corporation receives $50M investment from SK Group. HelioVolt is...
Donald Trump is about to invest in the Indian property market with his new project in Mumbai. Trump is not the only one that has taken interest in the Asian market. In 2009, American real estate giant and CEO of Island Capital Group, Andrew Farkas, invested in a project with a property developer to build luxury marina facilities along the Dubai waterfront. The Asian real estate market has been very lucrative, which is now shown by Trump’s 65-storey Trump Towers project. Indian real estate firm, Rohan Lifescapes, is going to execute the plan and build the towers, which will officially launch when Trump takes his trip to India in the near future. Chairman Harresh Mehta named it an ‘iconic project.’ He discusses the future of the building that will become a 3,00,000-square-foot complex with 45 spacious apartments. In addition to the number of apartments, the main features of the building are going to be a luxury spa, gymnasium and mini-theatre next to a hi-tech security system. "The bookings would start in February and we expect good response."