Venture capitalists curb investment in third quarter
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Venture capitalists curtailed their investments in the third quarter, suggesting the financiers who bankrolled the dot-com boom are taking a more sober approach to the revived interest in high-tech startups.
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Dow Jones &amp; Co., a financial news provider and publisher of the Wall Street Journal, lowered third-quarter guidance on Wednesday, due to declining Journal advertising bookings for September.
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U.S. consumers will curb spending this year after being hit by continued troubles in the housing sector, but business investment is set to pick up, adding to economic growth later this year, according to a survey of economists released on Sunday.
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PORTSMOUTH, N.H. - As venture capitalists shift their focus to later-stage deals with more mature technology companies, a growing and increasingly organized class of private investors known as "angels" has been picking up the slack in funding smaller start-ups.
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Investor's Business Daily - When Matrix Partners gave &#36;10 million to open-source software maker JBoss Group last February, some wondered whether the venture capital investors had lost their minds.
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In its effort to cut down on the type of rapid, short-term trades in mutual funds that were at the center of the industry's market-timing scandal, Fidelity Investments has imposed new fees so stringent that major clients such as the Coca-Cola Co. 401(k) retirement plan have stopped investing in Fidelity's funds.
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Venture-capital investing in the third quarter fell both nationally and in Washington state compared with the previous period, according to the MoneyTree Survey being released today by PricewaterhouseCoopers, Venture Economics and the National Venture
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Enterprise IT companies were conspicuously absent from the list of the 10 largest venture capital deals struck during the third quarter, as the growing market for alternative energy and other "clean tech" companies piqued investors' attention.
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Shares fall as company warns on global economy, 4Q forecast misses analysts&#39; estimates by 2 cents. CHICAGO  - Diversified manufacturer 3M Co.
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In Silicon Valley, buying rather than building from the bottom up is seen as counter to the reinvention culture.
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(InfoWorld) - Businesses are planning to scale back their IT spending in the third quarter of 2007, according to a survey released Friday by an investment research firm. IT spending usually slumps in May, but now, the percentage of companies planning to increase their spending has fallen to its lowest point in the last four years. The portion of technology and business executives who plan to increase IT spending fell from 34 percent in November to 26 percent in May, according to the report from ChangeWave Research, a division of Phillips Investment Resources. The survey also showed signs of weak spending throughout the second half of 2007 with the biggest slowdown hitting the server market. The portion of technology leaders who said their companies do not plan to buy any servers during the third quarter rose from 31 percent to 35 percent, the survey said. The results came from responses to a poll of 2,029 senior technology and business executives during the week of May 15. The forecast seems to validate Dell's decision, announced Thursday, thatÂ it would lay off 10 percent of its 88,100 employeesÂ over the next 12 months after profit fell slightly for the first quarter. Dell fared the worst of all PC vendors in the survey, which showed that the number of businesses planning to buy Dell desktops and notebooks has fallen to its lowest level in two years. The portion of corporate buyers planning to purchase a Dell desktop over the next quarter fell from 45 percent in August 2005 to 34 percent now. The numbers for laptops were almost the same. In contrast, Hewlett-Packard hit a two-year high in the number of businesses planning to buy both desktops and notebooks. Apple and Lenovo were essentially flat, while Gateway showed an increase in desktop demand. "There are rays of light; HP has shown an extraordinary rise, and there's a little pop in consumer spending. But business IT spending is undeniably slowing down, and it has been for a while, actually," said Paul Carton, director of research at ChangeWave Research. Part of that spending pullback is driven by the normal seasonal business cycle, he said. But in 2007, many companies are cutting their IT spending more than usual as they look for extra funds to meet rising energy costs. The slump in corporate IT spending plans is not the only sign of a softening economy. The analyst group GartnerÂ scaled back its forecast for 2007 global semiconductor revenue growthÂ on Thursday from a 6.4 percent rise over 2006 levels to just 2.5 percent. That soft market could put a big dent in future earnings for processor vendors like Intel andÂ AMD and for memory chip vendors like Samsung.
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Oct. 25 - Third-quarter venture capital fundraising in Israel was at its highest level in three years, the IVC Research Center reported in its quarterly survey During the three-month period, 113 local hi-tech
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The report comes amid rising investor concern about the impact of a possible slowdown in computer spending during the first half of the year.
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In a sign of persistent weakness in the US economy, a widely watched measure of business activity declined in August for the third consecutive month.
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The Q3 report shows declining numbers, but there's more to the story.
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Companies developing new drugs and biomedical devices got the biggest percentage of funds invested by venture capital firms in the third quarter, according to two new surveys.
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NEW YORK -- Mutual funds suffered along with the rest of the stock market during a troubled third quarter, with growth and technology sector funds posting the worst returns.