But is this already "the Digital Capital of Europe" or "the number one European location for IT and the creative industries", as Tech City's website proclaims?
Mills, a physicist and a co-founding partner in Digital Power Capital, an energy tech venture fund.
More recently, all four publicly traded data-center REITs took a tumble after hedge-fund manager Jonathon Jacobson, founder of Highfields Capital Management, raised questions earlier this month about how Digital Realty accounts for certain capital expenditures, while warning of rising competition.
Their success was boosted by an overall surge in Capital's digital audience, up 16% on the previous year.
Australian entrepreneur Pemo Theodore spent five years in London trying to drum up venture capital funding for her digital matchmaking start-up.
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Katherine Barr is a Partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in digital media, mobile and e-commerce startups.
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But with the volatility comes opportunity, at least for the players who can take advantage of the powerful changes that digital technology is bringing to the capital markets.
Personal Capital gives you a digital snapshot of your finances for free (sound familiar?) and charges 0.95% or less annually for one of its financial advisers to manage your money with a souped-up indexing strategy.
He is currently a General Partner at Highland Capital Partners focusing primarily on digital media and the internet.
"It gave us a chance to lead the digital-banking revolution, " Jon Witter, Capital One president of retail and direct banking, says of the ING deal.
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The digital currency exchange operated by Dominica-based Aurum Capital Holdings, Inc. supports bitcoin as well as Liberty Reserve, Pecunix, Perfect Money, and c-gold and they offer two choices for cashing out into a card-based product.
The new partnership with DST could help bring Tencent into the first tier of global digital media investing, and the huge pools of capital DST, Tencent and Naspers control should make entrepreneurs the world over drool.
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ARD, as it was known, was in turn indelibly famous for helping to finance a start-up technology company known as Digital Equipment, which became a classic example of venture capital gone right.
Since a large number of people will be consuming college basketball content from their offices on Thursdays and Fridays during the NCAA Tournament, Capital One will also unleash a series of digital advertisements featuring Barkley and Baldwin, which people will see while watching the games online.
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Mr. JOHN JACOB (Senior Vice President, Digital River, Inc.): Companies have raised more capital in this market than on NASDAQ, New York and AMMEX.
Saad Khan is a partner at venture capital firm CMEA Capital where he leads CMEA's Web, digital media, and twinkle-stage investments in Pixazza, Blekko and Jobvite.
Life sciences venture capital firms may be waiting for the big exit in digital health before taking the plunge, but not Aberdare Ventures.
He then built Velocity Interactive, a Venture Capital Firm with Ross Levinsohn, focused on early stage digital media.
In the world of memory storage, August Capital and Atomico-backed Memolane is vying to dominate the digital memory market.
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However, they are growing capital expenditures just as quickly as they look to expand their digital bookstore presence as well as their Nook eReader device.
But newer companies that venture investors are pouring capital into will do this with fresh business models geared directly toward digital platforms that use less overhead.
According to Stephen Laster, chief digital officer at McGraw-Hill Education, the goal is to build up political capital, awareness, approval and influence in multiple ways.
In addition, they had billions of dollars in capital to invest in any number of innovations to insure their dominance in the digital photo space.
Tom is publishes a Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics Report, a Media and Entertainment Storage Report, and a Capital Equipment and Technology Report for the Hard Disk Drive Industry.
As with Capital, the commercial station was aided by a 5.7% increase in digital listeners over the past year.
The infrastructure and capital investment secretary said the ambition was for a "society that takes full advantage of the digital age" and would therefore ensure Scotland would "prosper economically, socially and culturally".
"At the end of the day, I keep telling myself that we're really a victim of capital market conditions that were beyond our control, " says Joseph Cece , chief executive officer of Digital Access (nasdaq: CACS - news - people ), a Bala Cynwyd, Pa.
Founded in November 2008, Groupon has investments from venture capital firms such as Lightbank, Andreessen Horowitz and Battery Ventures, as well as Russian Internet investment firm Digital Sky Technologies.
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