News - Elevation Partners
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Yelp (http://www.yelp.com), the community-led local search site, today announced that private equity firm Elevation Partners has agreed to make a $25 million investment in Yelp through the purchase of Series E preferred stock.
NEW YORK, Aug. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Highlights: * Not-for-profit group PreDevCamp empowers 1300 developers in 80 cities worldwide to write Palm Pre apps using webOS capabilities; major events in San Francisco, Kansas City, New York, San Diego and Dallas. * Key investors in Palm, Inc.
Palm Inc made Jon Rubinstein its CEO on Wednesday, hoping the former Apple executive will bring fresh innovation to a company hoping to revive its fortunes with a new smartphone introduced last weekend.
Palm Inc is attempting to boost its capital before the launch of its new Pre smartphone by exercising its right to remarket shares held by independent equity firm, Elevation Partners.
By David Morrill, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. Oct. 12--The world's largest video game publisher, Electronic Arts Inc., announced Thursday that it is broadening its product range by acquiring the parent of two video game studios for $825 million.
