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The veteran tech investor told CNN Tech the goal of the organization is to «empower people who are concerned about the dark side of technology.»

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At Delivering Alpha 2017 legendary technology investor Julian Robertson tells CNBC's Kelly Evans why he feels hedge funds performance is lagging and tech stocks are still cheap.

Holding information close to the vest has worked as it has gained big partnerships, Ambar Bhattacharyya, a vice president at Bessemer Venture Partners, who has handled investments in a number of other healthcare companies (they are not investors in Theranos), told Tech Insider in April.

Sources previously told Reuters the choice has narrowed to one bid from Broadcom and U.S. tech fund Silver Lake and another from Toshiba chip partner Western Digital and Japanese government - related investors.

«We're only literally 1 % of where we can be,» Nihal Mehta, an entrepreneur at New York ad - tech firm Local Response and an investor in ad tech, told us.

Top tech investor Paul Meeks told «Squawk Box» on Wednesday, that might be in the form of an offer from private equity, since he doesn't see obvious candidates — other technology companies like Microsoft or Alibaba — as interested.

The tech company told investors Tuesday it would pursue a reverse spinoff, selling its core business while leaving shareholders» stake in more - valuable Asian assets — Alibaba and Yahoo Japan — intact.

Mumbai - based ed - tech startup Callido Learning LLP is raising $ 2 million (Rs 13 crore) from a UK - based publisher, a person in the know told TechCircle, refusing to divulge the investor's name.

Amid recurring talks of a sale, Jack Dorsey told investors at the Goldman Sachs tech conference that independence suits Twitter well.

I think I can help these businesses a lotâ $ ¦ As an investor, I like to look at tech - oriented companies rather than execution - oriented companies,» Agarwal told Techcircle.in.

HONG KONG (Reuters)- Sequoia Capital, an early investor in global tech behemoths like Google Inc and Apple Inc, aims to raise up to $ 8 billion in its largest - ever fundraising and has set sights on Chinese investors, people familiar with the plan told Reuters.

«I think Travis is materially changing right now, for the better,» Chris Sacca, an early Uber investor, told CNN Tech's Laurie Segall last month.

The British Venture Capital Association has published a booklet telling companies how to go about finding investors to help them develop their latest hi - tech widgets.

I've told this story before, but in late 1999, I was talking with my mother (a very good self - taught investor), she told me about many of my cousins who were speculating in tech stocks.

When I was representing tech startup companies, I told them all that they could use my conference room whenever they wanted to for board meetings, or for shareholder meetings, for investor meetings, whatever they wanted, with the idea that A) if they're having their board meetings in my conference room, I can even be the secretary, and chances are as they're talking about their business, I'm going to identify, «Hey, you need me to handle this thing.

I'm not going out to Silicon Valley or anywhere else and trying to pitch big VCs and it's not just the woman thing, it's also I think legal tech is a challenging market because it follows a different model and I've had investors told me that --

«There's a ground swell of people [such as Apple investors] saying big tech needs to think about their impact upon children and not just about their bottom line profit,» David Monahan, campaign manager for the CCFC, told CNN Ttech needs to think about their impact upon children and not just about their bottom line profit,» David Monahan, campaign manager for the CCFC, told CNN TechTech.

The tech sector is awash in cheap venture capital, and investors were inclined to ignore their concerns about corporate governance and take a shot at this company, he told the E-Commerce Times.

This is according to the latest Disrupt Africa African Tech Startups Funding Report, which tells a very positive story of the continent's increasing appeal to investors.

On Thursday, industry sources told South Korean publication The Investor that U.S. tech giant Apple has apparently postponed its plan of unveiling the iPhone 8 this September.

The tech giant has scrapped plans to integrate a fingerprint sensor into the iPhone 8's display, KGI Securities analyst Ming - Chi Kuo told investors in a note on Monday (July 3), which was earlier reported on by 9to5Mac.

The tech publication even adds that investors who spoke to company leadership were told they couldn't currently buy Coinbase shares.

Apple's massive new solar farm and their next - gen spaceship campus will boost the tech giant's 2012 expense to $ 8 billion — a 73 % hike over this year, one analyst told investors Monday.

The firm reportedly told investors that the investment was a high - risk, high reward bet that was particularly attractive due to overstretched valuations in the tech sector.

In early March, KGI Securities analyst Ming - Chi Kuo told investors that the Korean tech giant had been working feverishly on a virtual fingerprint sensor but ultimately ditched the idea after facing «technological difficulties.»