NEW YORK (Reuters) - Groupon Inc's Indian subsidiary SoSasta inadvertently published its users' passwords on the Internet, but the sensitive information was quickly removed after the security breach was discovered last week.

LOS ANGELES/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Green is back in venture capital circles -- but call it light green.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investment fund GSV Capital Corp has taken a small stake in Facebook that values the world's No. 1 social networking site at about $70 billion.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investment fund GSV Capital Corp has taken a small stake in Facebook that values the world's No. 1 social networking site at about $70 billion.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mobile location based start-up Foursquare raised $50 million in a round of financing lead by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, the company said on Friday.

A group of top US venture capitalists has written a letter to the US Congress opposing a bill aimed at cracking down on websites selling pirated and counterfeit goods.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese e-commerce website ihush.com has raised $43 million in venture capital funding to improve customer service and expand its user base, local media reported on Thursday.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Shazam, whose technology lets people use their cell phones to learn the names of catchy songs, has raised $32 million in funding to bolster expansion plans and move the company closer to a potential public stock offering.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - More than 80 percent of venture capitalists believe the initial public offering market is at very weak levels, according to a new survey from Deloitte and the National Venture Capital Association.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Gilt Groupe's Jetsetter luxury travel flash-sales business will have a new competitor called Spire starting this week.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The rash of accounting scandals that has hit U.S.-listed Chinese stocks has not curbed the appetite of private equity and venture capital firms looking for the next set of Chinese Internet stars in the mainland's "So-Lo-Mo" and luxury e-commerce sectors.

While potash results generated much speculation Monday . Stockhouse Canadian Small and Micro-cap Stock Report for Monday, June 20, 2011

The cricket boards of India and Sri Lanka clashed Monday over a new Twenty20 competition set to be held in Colombo next month after Indian players were barred from taking part.

India's cricketers have been denied permission to take part in an inaugural Twenty20 league in Sri Lanka starting next month, according to a board official.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - It had all the signs of another dotcom bubble: A start-up without a convincing business plan or any foreseeable chance of turning a profit saw its shares soar in the first hours after its stock market debut.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - It had all the signs of another dotcom bubble: A start-up without a convincing business plan or any foreseeable chance of turning a profit saw its shares soar in the first hours after its stock market debut.

LOS ANGELES/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Energy Department offered on Friday a $150 million conditional loan guarantee to 1366 Technologies Inc to support development of the company's solar wafer technology.

NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - The rise of combination treatments and tailored therapies is giving drugmakers even more incentive to team up, beyond seeking ways to limit the risks and costs of drug development.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Silicon Valley venture capitalists are betting big on new technologies to protect computer networks, hoping they will profit from a spate of high-profile cyber attacks on corporate and government bodies.

Google and its joint venture partner in China have applied for a licence to operate an online mapping service in the world's biggest web market, a news report said on Tuesday.