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According to a new report from Brand Perfect, considering global publishing for a digital generation, sales of tablets and smartphones will outstrip desktop sales by two to one, with tablets alone on target to do so in 2013.

Highlights of the event included keynotes and panels with tech innovators Mary Meeker, general partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; Angie Hicks, founder and CMO, Angie's List; Craig Kielburger, Free The Children and Me To We cofounder; and top executives from DocuSign customers Allergan, Cox, Hewlett-Packard, Iron Mountain, Lennar, LinkedIn, ... (more)

General Colin Powell became a venture capitalist after leaving public life and realizing one morning that his wife of 51 years, Alma, wasn't just going to let him stay at home and sit around with nothing to do.

PernixData closes on $20 million round . Software-defined storage platform company PernixData announced the close of an over-subscribed $20 million Series B financing.

EdgeSpring said on Thursday that it raised a total of $11 million in financing including a $9 million series A from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Lightspeed Ventures .

Leena Rao is currently a Senior Editor for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography.

Watch Julie Uhrman, Founder and CEO of Ouya, talk about her startup which just raised $15 million in new Funding.

As we discussed yesterday, venture capital is one of the few asset classes or types of investment where we see persistence of outperformance .

Silicon Valley venture capitalists like to crow that it's now cheaper than ever to establish a startup company.

Fuel cell maker Bloom Energy has raised another $130 million, according to Fortune Magazine's Dan Primack , bringing the company's total fundraising to $1.1 billion.

Software companies are so last decade. Instead, venture capitalists are looking to hardware companies for investment opportunities and the next big wave of innovation.

Since 2006, P2P & online lending have enjoyed explosive growth. Lending Club and Prosper , America's two largest P2P lenders have now surpassed $2B in loan origination, and P2P has captured the attention of industry legends, the financial media, the investing public and even today's technology giants.

As USA Today's Brett Molina writes , "For fans of the new Ouya game console, there's good news and bad news." First, the bad news: The launch of the low-cost Android-based gaming system has been delayed by three weeks.

Fuel cell maker Bloom Energy has raised $130 million in new venture capital funding, Fortune has learned from multiple sources.

The best angels and VCs offer more than just money. Here's what to look for as you shop around.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers , which has been taking heat in the press of late, could get a lift if Facebook acquires mobile navigation app maker Waze , as is being reported today.

John Doerr is a general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and the best-known venture capitalist in the world.

Ouya is just a kind on the block alongside the game consoles from Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony.

Early backer units of the OUYA had a small problem. It seems the buttons on the controller would sometimes get stuck under the faceplate.

Ouya made the games industry sit up when it raised $8.6m on Kickstarter in 2012 to make and launch an Android -based games console.