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22 April 2016

22 April 2016, 20:30

In China, Firms Face Competition as Tech Businesses Target Health Care

Health care-focused, private-equity investors in China are facing competition and forging partnerships as Chinese technology companies seek to leverage their dominance on all things digital in the provision of care.

22 April 2016, 18:45

Committed: North Carolina Seeks Wider Berth for Alternatives Portfolio

The North Carolina Department of State Treasurer is seeking to relax limits to how the state pension fund can be invested across private equity and other alternative investments, a move that would give it wider berth to shape an $84 billion portfolio amid interest-rate uncertainty.

22 April 2016, 17:33

The Morning Leverage: Facing Competition in China as Tech Companies Join Health-Care Fray

A collection of private equity related news from around the Web.

22 April 2016, 00:19

Gender Equity: Mayor Announces Bay Area Women Summit

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Today San Francisco Mayor Edwin M. Lee, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, Women’s Foundation of California and San Francisco City Administrator Naomi Kelly announced the Bay Area Women’s Summit...

21 April 2016, 23:34

Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People

The Constitution begins with the words “We the People.” But from our earliest days there have been two competing notions of “the People,” leading to two very different constitutional visions. Those who view “We the People” collectively think popular sovereignty resides in the people as a group...

21 April 2016, 18:20

The Morning Leverage: Brazos Sheds Apparel Brand Southern Tide

A roundup of private equity-related news.

21 April 2016, 02:24

Mission Failure: America and the World in the Post–Cold War Era

Please join us as Michael Mandelbaum—prominent columnist and author, and a leading foreign-policy thinker—discusses his new book, Mission Failure: America and the World in the Post–Cold War Era. In this definitive work...

20 April 2016, 20:00

A look into YouTube’s video file anatomy

Over 1 billion people use YouTube, watching hundreds of millions of hours of content all over the world everyday. We have been receiving content at a rate exceeding 100 hours/min for the last three years (currently at 400 hours/min).

20 April 2016, 17:44

The Morning Leverage: Battery to Buy Check Image Software Company

A roundup of private equity related news from across the Web.

20 April 2016, 16:24

The Daily Startup: Second Genome Raises $42.6 Million to Pursue Microbiome-Based Therapies

A roundup of venture-capital news and analysis from VentureWire and around the Web.

20 April 2016, 15:15

PE-Backed Imaging Advantage to Build X-Ray Reading Machine

Private equity backed Imaging Advantage is developing a machine capable of reading X-rays.

20 April 2016, 14:11

Mike Idland Named Head Coach At Suny Brockport

Long time No. 1 Staff Coach Mike Idland was recently named Head Coach for Women’s Soccer at SUNY College at Brockport. SUNY Brockport is a division III program near Rochester, NY competing in the SUNYAC conference.

19 April 2016, 20:00