Bessemer Venture Partners News

Today: SolarCity rockets higher on Wall Street after landing a deal to sell its residential solar systems at Best Buy, while Tesla gains after New Jersey ordered the carmaker to shut its stores.

Financial terms of the partnership weren't disclosed. News of the deal first leaked out last month, so it didn't come as a surprise.

BrightBytes, a fast-growing educational analytics organization that counts almost 1 in 10 U.S. schools as customers, announced today that it closed $15 million in Series B funding to accelerate its impressive growth and global expansion.

The Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange is suffering its longest drought for initial public offerings in at least five years, adding to pressure on regulators trying to lure companies by proposing concessions including tax breaks.

Katie Couric's new Yahoo show, Yahoo News with Katie Couric , premieres this Friday at 8 a.m. The new global news anchor even has an official Tumblr blog where viewers are encouraged to ask questions of Couric's first guest, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Naoko Okumoto, a VP at Yahoo in charge of monitoring its key Yahoo Japan business, is leaving the company, according to multiple sources.

Yahoo Inc. is deleting the option for users to access its various online services using Facebook Inc. or Google Inc. account logins as the company attempts make its products stand out from competitors and grow idle revenue numbers.

I knew I was going to miss my bike because for the 10 years I have lived in the Mission, I've taken it everywhere.

Yahoo! CAO Aman S. Kothari unloaded 48,589 shares of the company's stock in a transaction dated Friday, February 28th.

If you used a webcam on Yahoo between 2008 and 2012, a British spy agency might have intercepted your images - even those that were sexually explicit.

's stock had its "buy" rating restated by investment analysts at TheStreet in a note issued to investors on Wednesday, Analyst Ratings.Net reports.

Yahoo Inc. has moved top marketing executive Kathy Savitt into a more powerful role as content chief, a promotion that gives Savitt a place at the table as a key architect in steering the Sunnyvale-based company's push into digital media and attempt at rebuilding its image, The Wall Street Journal reported .

Yahoo! Inc. CFO Ken Goldman will participate in a question-and-answer session at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference in San Francisco.

The session is scheduled to begin on Monday, March 3, 2014, at 11:30 a.m. PT / 2:30 p.m. ET.

Grandfather of Silicon Valley investment Donald Valentine rang up a major payday while evening the score a bit with relative new kid on the block Mark Zuckerberg.

It also values the group's 450million users at 25 each - even though some pay only $1 a year and many pay nothing at all.

Intacct , which provides cloud-based financial management software, has secured an additional $45 million of financing in a combination of venture funding and a debt package from Silicon Valley Bank .

Editor's notes: 9984.TSE looks undervalued based on the value of its equity stakes in other companies and earnings from its own operations.

Yahoo's newest acquisition is a young startup named Distill that landed its $1.3 million in seed funding only about five months ago.

Four months after getting a multimillion-dollar infusion of cash from investors, the chief executive of United Capital Financial Partners Inc., says he has not spent a penny.