Kevin Maney writes: There's a lot of skepticism around the tech industry regarding Google's apparent plan to create a venture capital unit. The phrase "more money than sense" comes to mind -- kind of like the newly wealthy guy who decides to invest in a high-end restaurant. First of all, [...]

So there was little drama at today's shareholder meeting and the results were never in doubt. Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has just released its vote tallies confirming that all of the incumbent directors were re-elected by a wide margin. The full vote totals can be found in the release. CEO Jerry [...]

After a decade of research, the University of Miami has announced it's teaming up with a venture capital firm to start a company to develop a lung cancer vaccine that could have huge benefits for those suffering from the deadly disease -- if the vaccine makes it through a lengthy [...]

Historically, women-led companies have received only 2.4% of venture capital investments. Stephanie Hanbury-Brown is working to change that trend.[...]

Sorry, couldn't resist it...Thoof, the social news ranking site formed last year and which had $1 million in funding from Austin Ventures and angel investor Ron Conway, has closed down. The site now redirects to Reddit, the social news site now owned by Conde Nast (Thoof had many similarities with [...]

NewTeeVee has been bursting with startup news this week, including news from a bunch of new companies that have barely been mentioned elsewhere, if at all. So for those GigaOM readers looking for a cheat sheet, I've pulled together one here: Onecast/1cast: Apparently this is something like RedLasso, but it's [...]