It didn't come from Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), of course: Accel Partners and Greylock Partners jointly announced that Jeff Weiner is joining the two VC firms as an EIR, a unusual co-op position for both the firms. His new role becomes effective in early September 2008. He will divide his time equally between the Accel and Greylock Silicon Valley offices.

Follow the money. That’s the mantra that can go a long way towards explaining a lot in life, and often much in politics. Starting last fall there was a palpable sense in the San Francisco Bay Area and its Silicon Valley that people were ...

The Churchill Club of Silicon Valley just wrapped up one of its most anticipated events: the Annual Top Ten Tech Trends Debate. Five well-known and opinionated venture capitalists weighed-in on the million-dollar question: What trends will take flight and what trends will fizzle out in the months ah ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- For many Yahoo employees, it was business as usual at the Internet company's Silicon Valley headquarters this week.

VC, New England, Silicon Valley Robert Buderi wrote: Is the Boston venture capital community losing some of its edge? Vinit Nijhawan is concerned it might be. Starting at noon today, a select group of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, venture fund investors,

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), the Silicon Valley venture capital firm, announced today it is launching a new $500 million investment vehicle: the Green Growth Fund. The fund is intended to help speed mass market adoption of solutions to ...

Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said Thursday he knows how much he'd spend to buy Yahoo and accelerate his company's Internet play. Too bad he's not telling anyone else. Ballmer didn't provide any new insight into the company's efforts to buy the Silicon Valley pioneer during the meeting at Microsoft's Redmond, Wash., headquarters, but he did indicate that an end to months of ...

Silicon Valley-based startup Mint, which provides a service that lets users manage their checking, savings and credit card accounts online, will launch a new product on May 6 that let’s users track virtually any type of investment ...

The decrease sent total VC investment to its lowest point since 2005, coincidentally was the year that marked the beginning of the “web 2.0” craze which led to a revival of excitement around internet companies in Silicon Valley, ...