A rising Democratic star has walked back his denunciation of an ad by President Barack Obama's re-election campaign that attacked Mitt Romney's record as a venture capitalist.

US President Barack Obama's camp unleashed a fierce assault on his Republican foe Mitt Romney Monday, slamming the former venture capitalist as a "vampire" who got rich by bleeding dry ailing firms.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - U.K. investment firm Sustainable Development Capital LLP plans to raise more than $500 million to invest over the next two to three years in specialist funds and companies involved in environmental projects in Asia, its chief executive said.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - U.K. investment firm Sustainable Development Capital LLP plans to raise more than $500 million in financing over the next two to three years for specialist funds and companies involved in environmental projects in Asia, its chief executive said.

(Reuters) - Digital music start-up MOG isn't actively trying to sell itself, its chief executive said on Tuesday, responding to a report that said his company is struggling in the competitive music subscription business.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Wayin, the new social media venture backed by Sun Microsystems founder Scott McNealy, announced it has raised $14 million in Series B funding from U.S. Venture Partners.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - PayPal, the online payments company owned by eBay Inc, just got a new rival in the race to develop a mobile payment service that can be used in physical stores.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A series of technology companies, including security software maker Palo Alto Networks, are preparing to go public on the heels of Facebook's $5-billion filing, sensing a window of opportunity as the stock market rallies.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Josh Buckley, chief executive of an online gaming start-up, is looking forward to next month's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, particularly for the parties and the accompanying schmoozing with industry A-listers.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - When Jason Goldberg set out to raise a new round of funding for his flash sales site Fab.com, he dispensed with the usual PowerPoint presentations and instead gave potential investors a look at the crown jewels: the "dashboard" of real-time analytics that can instantly spot trends and enable the site to tweak its offerings on the fly.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - When Jason Goldberg set out to raise a new round of funding for his flash sales site Fab.com, he dispensed with the usual PowerPoint presentations and instead gave potential investors a look at the crown jewels: the "dashboard" of real-time analytics that can instantly spot trends and enable the site to tweak its offerings on the fly.

Feb 16, Reuters - Intellectual Ventures, a privately held patent holding company co-founded by a former Microsoft Corp <MSFT.O> executive, sued three of the four top U.S. mobile providers for patent infringement.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As the Republican primary fight splatters mud all over Mitt Romney and Bain Capital, other private capital funds are rushing to distance themselves from the firm co-founded by the presidential contender.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Marin Software, a startup that publishes applications used to manage online advertising campaigns, has raised $30 million in a new investment round led by Singaporean sovereign wealth fund Temasek Holdings.

HAWTHORNE, California (Reuters) - Tesla Motors Inc on Thursday showed off a prototype of its Model X, a battery-powered SUV that represents the company's bet that consumers will buy a range of electric vehicles spun from a common platform.

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp will open its first retail outlet in India around August or September, R.K. Krishnakumar, vice chairman of joint venture partner Tata Global Beverages, told reporters on Tuesday.

(Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is in "serious talks" to poach veteran Bloomberg LP executive Lex Fenwick to run its Dow Jones publishing business, which houses the Wall Street Journal, according to two people familiar with the discussions.

(Reuters) - Media conglomerate Time Warner Inc is leading a $12 million round of funding into a start-up company that analyzes tweets and Facebook posts as people watch their favorite TV programs.

LONDON (Reuters) - Investing in a wide range of clean technology companies is a good defense in a sector that faces uncertain policy for low-carbon energy and that had only modest growth last year, said a partner at venture capital firm Scottish Equity Partners (SEP).

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. venture capitalists opened their wallets a bit wider in the last quarter of 2011 than a year ago, but they're not quite as flush as their largesse would indicate.