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Inside a Foxconn factory. Photo: Karson Yiu/ABC News
* Apple (AAPL) granted ABC's Nightline unfettered access to a Foxconn factory. Here's a preview of what they found. (The full segment airs this evening at 11:35 PM EST and PST. (ABC News via Fortune)
* National Security Agency director Gen. Keith Alexander warned that the hacker group dubbed "Anonymous" could have the tools necessary to cause a limited power outage within the next two years. (The Wall Street Journal)
* Microsoft accused Google (GOOG) of essentially bypassing the privacy settings in Internet Explorer to track users. (The Verge)
* Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz on why tech entrepreneurs should dispense with the business classes and listen to rap lyrics instead. (The New York Times)
* The design-focused e-commerce startup Fab.com, which recently hit 2 million users, is expanding into Europe with the acquisition of Casacanda in a deal valued at nearly $10 million. (Fab.com and The Wall Street Journal)
* Barnes and Noble (BKS) reportedly plans to launch an 8-gigabyte version of its Nook Tablet on Feb. 22 to better compete with Amazon's $199 Kindle Fire. (The Verge)
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How executive shuffles, product changes, and a delayed IPO paid off for a couple of private equity firms.
By Kevin Maney, contributor
CEO Bates (left) first interviewed with financier Durban (center) over Skype - but met Andreessen (right) the old-fashioned way, in his office.
FORTUNE -- In September 2009, Silver Lake Partners and venture firm Andreessen-Horowitz bought Skype from eBay, where it had become the Kurt Cobain of technology companies (wildly popular, MORE
Jul 12, 2011 5:00 AM ET
Take a picture with Lytro's soon to come camera and change the focus to any spot, with the click of a mouse. The only question most photo geeks have is "how much?"
FORTUNE -- There's a new player in the camera market: Lytro, a Mountain View, Calif.-based startup with just 45 employees, is hoping to disrupt the industry with an innovative camera that lets users focus a picture after it's been MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Jun 22, 2011 10:28 AM ETThe company has been the ultimate under-the-radar survivor, changing hands, taking on debt, and preparing to go public, only to find a white knight in Microsoft.
By Dan Mitchell, contributor
FORTUNE -- Given the premium price Microsoft is paying for Skype, it's striking that the Internet phone company has spent so much of its short life being passed around like a cheap bottle of holiday wine. Also striking is the eye-popping level MORE
May 11, 2011 5:59 PM ET
The one company that wanted Skype: Microsoft. Can the service unite Microsoft's far flung empire and raise its tech profile?
FORTUNE -- You'll be hearing about video chat a lot more over the next few years thanks to Microsoft's headline-making $8.5 billion acquisition of the popular Internet telephony company Skype, which both companies confirmed in a joint announcement earlier today. It's the largest sum Microsoft (MSFT) has ever forked over for MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - May 10, 2011 3:06 PM ETVenture capitalists are hungrier than ever for next big startup, leading them to make some eye-popping investments -- which, for once, may be entirely justifiable.
Box CEO Aaron Levie. Image via CrunchBase
By Aaron Levie, contributor
FORTUNE -- Having just closed a fourth round of funding, raising $48M from Andreessen Horowitz and other notable investors, I have the dubious distinction of having pitched Box more than a few dozen times on Sand MORE
Apr 11, 2011 2:36 PM ET
Andreessen Horowitz and others send a big signal that web-based enterprise software startups are gaining clout with their latest investment.
Back in 2005, Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith were college dropouts with a collective $11,000 and a not-so-sexy startup idea for an online storage and collaboration service. Today, the entrepreneurial duo announced that their company, Box.net, has closed a whopping $48 million series D funding round.
The large investment is the latest sign MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Feb 24, 2011 12:19 PM ET
Best known for its consumer tech investments, the fund ventures into enterprise cloud computing.
Marc Andreessen sees clarity in the cloud.
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is best known for high-profile investments like Zynga, Foursquare and Skype. But the fund, headed by Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen and his longtime business partner Ben Horowitz, is also betting big on business-to-business upstarts, and these days that means backing companies that enable or rely MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Jan 28, 2011 9:24 AM ET
By Ben Horowitz, contributor
Cloud computing company Opsware was nobody's darling. Then founders Andreessen and Horowitz put the company through three rounds of layoffs. The unlikely result was a big buyout -- here's how it happened.
"I'm tryin' to right my wrongs / But it's funny them same wrongs helped me write this song" -Kanye West
Shortly after we sold Opsware to Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), I had a conversation with the legendary venture MORE
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| Bank of America Corp... | 7.95 | -0.16 | -1.97% |
| Intel Corp | 26.73 | -0.43 | -1.58% |
| Microsoft Corp | 31.27 | -0.17 | -0.54% |
| Ford Motor Co | 12.28 | -0.25 | -2.00% |
| General Electric Co | 19.39 | 0.17 | 0.88% |
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| Dow | 12,938.67 | -27.02 | -0.21% |
| Nasdaq | 2,933.17 | -15.40 | -0.52% |
| S&P 500 | 1,357.66 | -4.55 | -0.33% |
| Treasuries | 2.00 | -0.04 | -1.96% |
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