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April 23 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Cory Johnson, Ironfire Capital's Eric Jackson and BGC Partners' Colin Gillis discuss the next big thing in tech on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart."

Eric Jackson, Ironfire Capital founder & managing director, discusses speculation surrounding Facebook's new operating system for Android, and whether it will be enough to "move the needle," as CEO Zuckerberg

In addition to Lerer Ventures, new funds investing include Advancit Capital, Ironfire Angel, Mesa+, and Growlab/LX Ventures. New angel investors include Martin Nisenholtz "At a time when investors are leery of both travel companies and content ...

Facebook Share on Facebook Twitter LinkedIn GooglePlus Email 2 hours ago Plunking down $1.1 billion for blogging platform Tumblr was the easy part. Now Yahoo has to live up to its pledge not to screw it up, as CEO Marissa Mayer put it. It won't be ...

Financial trends and news by Short URL: http://vator.tv/n/2f80 Seed stage Travel news startup Skift raised an additional $1.1 million seed round. The new funding was led by Lerer Ventures and included Ironfire Angel, MESA+, Advancit Capital, ...

JC Penney's CEO says the company seeks to restore traffic and purchase conversion in stores, with CNBC's Courtney Reagan. And Eric Jackson, of IronFire, highlights the so-called Dogs of

Despite the many miserable prognoses for the future of the media business, a few stubborn entrepreneurs still see fit to venture into content-driven companies. Such people including PandoDaily's own Sarah Lacy, Business Insider's Henry Blodget, and ...

Travel site Skift has received $1.1 million in seed financing from a group of investors led by Lerer Ventures, a firm managed by Huffington Post cofounder Kenneth Lerer. The additional funds, which brings the total raised to $1.5 million, includes ...

Skift , the online travel publishing site started by Rafat Ali--the founder of Paidcontent.org, which was based in Santa Monica--has raised $1.1M in a new funding round. The funding came from lerer Ventures, along with Ironfire Angel, MESA+, ...