In this business climate, the road to striking a venture capital deal is difficult for both funder and fundee. Small startups with big ideas obviously have a harder time finding VC firms willing to take a chance on them, but those VC firms themselves are under added pressure to make the correct decisions regarding where ...

Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the Minnesota woman who was twice found liable for copyright infringement for sharing two dozen songs using an online file-sharing application, has turned down an offer to settle her US$54,000 penalty for less than half that amount. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) gave Thomas-Rasset the option of settling the case for ...

Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) says it will focus strongly on customer service and support for customers of both its products and those of Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: JAVA), whose acquisition it completed on Wednesday. “We believe our customers deserve the best level of support and it’s our job to make that extremely compelling,” Juergen Rottler, executive vice ...

Break dancing is something that I taught myself how to do a few years ago. I had always thought that it looked so fun and I had taken a lot of dance classes growing up so I decided to learn how for the fun of it. After I decided to learn it I looked up ...