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Napster gets funding, new CEO

Hummer Winblad partners Hank Barry and John Hummer will join the Napster board... Read more

22 May, 2000 by Margaret Kane
Ballmer's quest to rival Google in search

Ballmer's quest to rival Google in search

...Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer talks to Ann Winblad, a partner at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, about the company's long-term strategy to battle... Read more

1 October, 2008 by ZDNet UK
Ballmer's rivalry with VMware

Ballmer's rivalry with VMware

...Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer talks to Ann Winblad, a partner at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, about Microsoft's move into virtualisation with its Hyper... Read more

30 September, 2008 by ZDNet UK

Microsoft invests in online TV firm Move Networks

...investors, including Benchmark Capital, Cisco Systems, Comcast Interactive Media, Steamboat Ventures and Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Microsoft said it has joined that Series C round... Read more

26 August, 2008 by Stefanie Olsen
Tech luminaries bid Bill Gates adieu

Tech luminaries bid Bill Gates adieu

Technology insiders say their fond and not-so-fond farewells as Bill Gates steps down from full-time work at the software giant he founded Read more

26 June, 2008 by Holly Jackson and Ina Fried

Start-up simplifies email encryption

...company, which now has 20 employees, secured venture funding from Morgenthaler and Hummer Winblad. The result of Voltage's efforts is a program that the... Read more

8 July, 2003 by Ina Fried

Napster chief executive quits

...board members Hank Barry and John Hummer, both representing venture capital firm Hummer Winblad, for control of the company. A lawsuit filed by Fanning in... Read more

15 May, 2002 by John Borland

Microsoft co-founder hits investment slump

...com disasters range from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers-backed Excite@Home to Hummer Winblad Venture Partners-backed Pets.com. In addition, Allen has continued to... Read more

13 May, 2002 by Dawn Kawamoto

Bertelsmann plans Napster takeover

...plan to buy out the former owners, most of all venture-capitalist Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and some private investors like John Fanning, who is... Read more

5 April, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

Napster to name new chief

...interim" head of the company 13 months ago, when venture capitalist firm Hummer Winblad invested $15m (about £10m) in the burgeoning file-swapping firm. In... Read more

24 July, 2001 by John Borland

Judge: Napster efforts 'disgraceful'

...for lawsuits against several individuals associated with Napster and venture capital firm Hummer Winblad, citing lack of evidence. Although Patel's comments put Napster on... Read more

11 April, 2001 by John Borland

Venture capitalists turn off the tap on funding

...is now really, really high," said Chuck Robel of San Francisco-based Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. "They come in and say they need $50m or... Read more

19 February, 2001 by Rachel Konrad

Did Napster sell out?

...For his part, Hank Barry, the chief executive installed by venture capitalist Hummer, Winblad, has no interest in dragging this issue out. The 9th Circuit... Read more

1 November, 2000 by Charles Cooper

One musician's take on Net music

...system. (Hey, the interim CEO is on loan from venture capital firm Hummer Winblad.) And McGuinn is very aware that Napster's backers stand to... Read more

24 July, 2000 by Charles Cooper

Coop's Scoop: The week ahead, the week that was

...one. Speaking of Napster, the company's newly installed boss, courtesy of Hummer-Winblad Venture Partners, has restored service to 29,000 Metallica fans who... Read more

7 June, 2000 by Charles Cooper

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