NRG Energy Inc. said Tuesday it will offer $750 million in senior notes due in 2020. The Princeton, N.J., power company said it will use proceeds for working capital and to help fund recently announced acquisitions.

A start-up wants to modify low-power smartphone chips to run servers, the computers in corporate data centers. If successful, it would undermine Intel’s server-chip juggernaut.

Smooth-Stone, a semiconductor start-up, has pulled in $48 million from an international group of investors in a bid to disrupt one of Intel s most lucrative franchises: server chips.

Unusual Chip Start-Up Raises Funds Smooth-Stone, a start-up with an unusual plan to target the market for chips used in server systems, said it had raised $48 million from a combination of larger chip companies and investors.

Deals Super Angels Fly In to Aid Start-Ups A growing breed of start-up investors dubbed super angels is rapidly raising new money—and ratcheting up competition with established venture capitalists.

Spotify’s partnerships SVP Paul Brown is leaving after 18 months with the music startup, saying his exit’s on good terms.

ICBC Credit Suisse Asset Management Co, the Chinese fund venture of Swiss bank Credit Suisse , said on Friday it raised more than 14 billion yuan in China s biggest bond fund ever, as investors sidestep a weak stock market.

Hedge funds stabilized somewhat in July as investors poured more money into the sector amid rebounding stock markets, The Wall Street Journal reported citing estimates published by HedgeFund.net.

Airstrip Technologies has closed an undisclosed round of financing from venture firm Sequoia Capital.

TweetMeme, a tiny start-up based in Reading, Berkshire, has struck a unique deal with Twitter, giving it instant access to all of the 140-character messages published on the site.

BringMeTheNews, a local news startup based in Minneapolis, has raised $1 million in funding from business information firm The Dolan Company and Twin Cities’ PR firm Padilla Speer Beardsley.

New Zealand s Craigs Investment Partners and Deutsche Bank have completed a strategic alliance giving the latter a 49.9 percent equity interest in the wealth and investment firm. The remaining 50.1 percent stays with existing Craigs Investment Partners shareholders, Deutsche Bank said in a statement.

A survey of the venture capital industry released Wednesday shows that the valuation of startup companies funded by V.C. firms improved in the second quarter over the first, but the amount of money raised by V.C. firms to fund those companies declined in the same period.

Money is trickling back into the professional Internet video industry, helped by branded entertainment deals and venture capital firms.

The European Commission allowed Ireland on Tuesday to temporarily grant euro10 billion to Anglo Irish Bank -- the third such emergency recapitalization -- saying the funding was needed to preserve the country s financial stability.

Skype also committed $10 million to Atomico, a venture capital fund founded by Skype s founders, and invested $6 million in their new startup, Rdio.

Best Buy has been partnering with the likes of venture-capital firms to help develop compelling new gadgets.

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Redbeacon, the service listings startup that won the top prize at the TechCrunch50 conference last fall, just raised $7.4 million in its first round of funding, VentureBeat reported.

Lawrence Aragon, editor-in-chief of Thomson Reuters publication The Venture Capital Journal, has compiled a list of 10 young venture capitalists who, he says, are poised to do great things.