At one point three years ago, Portland’s Puppet thought it was headed toward an IPO. That did not happen, but CEO Sanjay Mirchandani says the DevOps toolmaker is back on… Read More
—INRIX hired Chris Handley as vice president of product management and analytics. The former group head of analytics at Vodafone will lead the development of the company’s movement analytics. “Chris understands the potential of mobile… Read More
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings’ experience with startups probably sounds familiar to anyone who’s struggled through starting a business. He has failed and questioned his leadership abilities — and yet he’s still… Read More
Mary Meeker, the former Wall Street analyst turned Kleiner Perkins partner, gave her closely watched and very tweetable Internet trends report today at the Code Conference. Many in the industry use… Read More
If same-day delivery is the future of retail, then the present is all about free shipping. Free shipping continues to gain in importance, hitting an all-time (non-holiday) high in the first quarter at 58 percent,… Read More
Here’s a sign of the changing winds in the venture capital business. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley’s top venture capital firms, recently told a group of… Read More
People must really hate getting stuck in traffic. Waze, a Silicon Valley startup, just landed a whopping $30 million in venture capital financing to help people better navigate through congested… Read More