
Highland Capital Partners Bob Davis comments on Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's fired-up prediction about the future of innovation in a speech to over 500 Boston business leaders at the Boston College CEO's Club on Friday, October 16th.
Source: www.necn.com
(NECN: Peter Howe, Boston) - It was like Hurricane Steve blowing into the Boston College CEO's Club Friday: Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer, fired up about the future of innovation -- and talking ...

Highland Capital Partners A great success story for Highland and the Boston area; Starent Networks is acquired by Cisco Systems highlighting a growing demand for mobile Internet services
Source: www.boston.com
The giant data networking company Cisco Systems Inc. will pay $2.9 billion to acquire Starent Networks Corp. of Tewksbury, a fast-growing maker of equipment that lets cellphone companies handle massive amounts of e-mail, music, and video traffic.

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Tom Stemberg of the Highland Consumer Fund participated in an extensive 30-minute special CNBC broadcast report discussing the future of the retail sector. The segment as is a part of a broader network series on leadership in different industry sectors. Other retail leaders in t...he roundtable discussion include: Kend...all Powell, CEO, General Mills; Martin Sorrell, CEO, WPP; Steve Sadove, Chairman & CEO, Saks Firth Avenue; Tommy Hilfiger, Founder, Hilfiger Group.Read More

Highland Capital Partners Tom Stemberg, Managing General Partner of the Highland Consumer Fund, on CNBC's Closing Bell comments on the holiday retail forecast.

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Peter Bell quoted several times in this TIME Magazine article on the upswing of M&A activity in the tech sector. http://www.time.com/time/business/articl e/0,8599,1928931,00.html
Source: www.time.com
Merger activity went flat in the recession, but Cisco, Xerox, Dell and others are now rolling up their sleeves to do deals as growth becomes the new crown jewel

Highland Capital Partners Bob Davis is interviewed on Fox Business News discussing opportunities in the digital media industry highlighting Highland-backed companies: urbine, Quattro, Paragon Lake and Glasses Direct.

Highland Capital Partners Peter Bell discusses how the field is wide open right now because some of the biggest technology companies have recently begun expanding beyond their traditional businesses.
Source: www.reuters.com
* Enterprise IT hottest area in tech M&A * Deals will bring tech giants into new markets By Anupreeta Das NEW YORK, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Technology bankers are placing their bets on combinations

Highland Capital Partners City Sports offering online and in-store promotions for back-to-school
Source: video.foxbusiness.com
Back "in" school sales boosted business, says City Sports COO Sean Scales.

Highland Capital Partners Create Your Best Smack-Talking Red Sox vs Yankees Haiku and Enter to Win $1,000
Source: www.fansnap.com
Compare sports tickets, concert tickets, and theatre tickets from 50+ sites all at once. Find best values fast!

Highland Capital Partners "It’s a game that spans two hours and 400 years" - Seth Priebatsch, SCVNGR
Scvngr, Highland Capital want you to Quest for Innovation for charity - Mass High Tech Business News
Source: www.masshightech.com
Scvngr, Highland Capital want you to Quest for Innovation for charity

Highland Capital Partners Join THE QUEST! A high-tech, city-wide, interactive mobile game through downtown Boston. www.questforinnovation.com
Source: www.xconomy.com
Boston-area technology entrepreneurs may not get much work done on Friday, October 9. If Highland Capital Partners can drum up enough interest, hundreds of

Highland Capital Partners DIGG's traffic has almost doubled, claiming 43.8 unique visitors in August 2009.
Source: www.directtrafficmedia.co.uk
Social bookmarking site turns new corner as online advertising pushes visitor numbers up.

Highland Capital Partners QD Vision, a Watertown (Mass.) startup, says it can lower energy use and improve light quality by combining LEDs with tiny synthetic crystals they call quantum dots.

Highland Capital Partners A contributed piece by Michael Gaiss, running in the Reuters' Entrepreneurial section, on the topic of marketing helping to play a role in further nurturing innovation and entrepreneurship.
Source: blogs.reuters.com
Michael Gaiss is a Senior Vice President at venture capital firm Highland Capital Partners. The opinions expressed here are his own.

Highland Capital Partners mix1 Raises $6 Million from the Highland Consumer Fund
Source: www.denverpost.com
Mix1 Beverage gets $6 million infusion





















