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T. Rowe Price marks down investment in Apptio and other private tech companies, yet another sign of a cooling market

Posted on January 23, 2016 by verx in Science & patent news

Apptio CEO Sunny Gupta at the company's HQ in Bellevue

T. Rowe Price sunk gobs of money into companies such as Cloudera, Dropbox, Apptio and Evernote in recent years, oftentimes at lofty valuations. Now, the giant mutual fund manager is resetting some of those bets. According...

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Slack CEO on going public: The window for easy money in private markets will close slowly

Posted on January 16, 2016 by verx in Science & patent news

Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield at CES 2016

When will Slack, the fast-growing enterprise chat app, go public? Will the environment of easy VC money in the private markets dry up? Slack CEO and Co-founder Stewart Butterfield addressed these questions at an entrepreneurship panel at...

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NASA signals commitment to private space with $14 billion investment

Posted on January 15, 2016 by verx in Science & patent news

The Dream Chaser would allow NASA to reclaim some of its space shuttle heritage. (credit: Sierra Nevada Corporation)

Today, NASA awarded a new round of contracts to supply the International Space Station with food, water, and scientific research from late 2019 through 2024.

The space agency both expanded the number of companies providing services from two to three,...

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Mysterious collector opens world’s largest private Apple exhibition in Prague

Posted on December 28, 2015 by verx in Science & patent news

(credit: eirunning85 / imgur)

Although the official Apple Store is yet to come to the capital of the Czech Republic, it has recently seen the launch of the Apple Museum, which claims to host the largest private exhibition of its kind.

Housed in three buildings in Prague's old town, the museum has an extensive list of 472...

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Meet SnapTransit: A private shuttle bus that wants to make your commute more productive

Posted on December 23, 2015 by verx in Science & patent news

Large corporations in Seattle like Microsoft utilize a fleet of private shuttle busses that get workers to and from work everyday. Now, one startup wants to offer that service to the masses. SnapTransit is a new company hoping to help people ditch their cars and...

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Testing uberHOP in Seattle: Uber’s new $5 carpool service feels like riding a private bus

Posted on December 10, 2015 by verx in Science & patent news

Will carpooling become cool? Will people no longer need to own a car? Will Uber replace public transit, or at least parts of it? These are all questions I have after trying out Uber new’s carpool service, which is launching for the first time ever...

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After flagging sales, Keurig goes private with $13.9 billion from JAB Holding

Posted on December 8, 2015 by verx in Science & patent news

This message may have driven many Keurig users to vote with their dollars. But now Keurig is getting an infusion of private money. (credit: Ryan Lane)

In the finance world today, everyone is abuzz with the news of a giant buyout—JAB Holding company, which manages the money of one of Germany’s wealthiest families, agreed to buy...

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