CNetNews.com has a great interview on “the constant search for disruption” with Steve Jurvetson, managing director of venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson in Menlo Park, California. AP reports that “Google Inc.'s top executives expressed hope Thursday that the Internet search leader will be able to form a potentially lucrative [...]

Inc.com points its readers to an interesting Kauffman Foundation study on entrepreneurship.  The publication writes that “[a]mong more than 500 U.S. technology firms recently analyzed by [Kauffman], a Kansas City, Mo.-based entrepreneurship advocacy group, twice as many founders were in their 50s than in their 20s. The average age of [...]

CNetNews.com writes that “[o]n Monday, reports surfaced that business social network LinkedIn is likely looking to raise a round of venture capital (rather than find a corporate parent).  TechCrunch reports that investment bank Allen & Co. is hoping to help LinkedIn pull in that funding at a $1 billion valuation.  [...]

According to Wired, “[t]he government's new cyber-security ‘Manhattan Project’ is so secretive that a key Senate oversight panel has been reduced to writing a letter to beg for answers to the most basic questions, such as what's going on, what's the point and what about privacy laws.  The Senate Homeland [...]

The European Commission recently released figures on EU patent protection which show that 20 years’ protection in Europe is on average nearly nine times more expensive than in Japan or the US.  In large part, these costs result from translation requirements.  […]