In her guest post at VentureBeat, Mohr Davidow Ventures General Partner Katherine Barr believes that venture capitalists are going to be setting their sights in Canada this year

California, US-based tech firm Tango launched a crowdfunding project on Indiegogo for its new portable computer, which is just the size of a smartphone and the capacity of a full quad-core Windows PC.

Bootstrapping first and waiting before finally agreeing to financing from venture capital was beneficial for Qualtrics, an enterprise survey provider, according to its CEO Ryan Smith in an interview with Entrepreneur.

Life science startups of India, like Sea6 Energy which turns seaweed to biofuel, are taking on a higher level of risk in their goal of turning their research into successful businesses, The Economic Times reported.

Innovation company 3M has supported Chilean firm Lixivia. The investment was made through 3M's New Ventures Business but terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Private equity firm Vector Capital has acquired and made a growth equity investment in cloud-based application lifecycle management solutions provider CollabNet Inc. Financial terms of both deals were not provided.

According to analysts interviewed by Bloomberg, Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) and Seiko Epson Corp may want to consider acquiring growing 3D printer company Stratasys as oppose to building their own printers if the former wants to tap the growing 3D printing market real soon.

Coupons.com, the online coupon firm backed by T. Rowe Price Group Inc and Passport Ventures, has filed for an IPO of up to $100 million with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Reuters reported.

Applications filed with the US Department of Transportation by Easter Air Lines Group Inc in order to take the long-defunct Eastern Air back to the skies again, Reuters again.

Activist investor Daniel Loeb's Third Point Llc can no longer count on Rhode Island as one of its clients after the state's Investment Commission voted to pull out its investment in the hedge fund, Reuters reported.