Daily Archives: March 14, 2012

Richard Waters Product search firm TheFind joins the anti-Google parade

March 14, 2012 9:53 pm by Richard Waters

With the European Union’s competition authorities getting close to a decision on whether to take action against Google, US regulators have also been pushing ahead with their own investigation into complaints against the company. The latest sign: Siva Kumar, chief executive of TheFind, a “shopping search engine”,  tells us he is due to meet with the Federal Trade Commission soon to make his case that the search giant has unfairly hurt his company. Read more

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BBC says Iranian hackers targeted its Persian service

March 14, 2012 3:26 pm by Mark Wembridge

Last month Mark Thompson, the BBC’s director-general, pointed the finger at the Iranian authorities for allegedly intimidating employees at its Persian service.

Now the corporation’s chief is taking things a step further by accusing Iran of masterminding a “sophisticated cyber-attack” that involved jamming satellite feeds in an effort to wreak havoc with broadcasts into the country. Read more

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Maija Palmer European secondary venture funds merge

March 14, 2012 8:00 am by Maija Palmer

A little bit of much-needed consolidation is finally taking place in the European Venture Capital industry. On Wednesday DFJ Esprit and Tempo Capital announced plans to merge their secondary investment businesses.

Tempo is a specialist in this market of buying existing venture capital investments, and DFJ has been dipping its toes in since 2007 when it bought out Cazenove’s venture capital fund. Read more

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