Talend makes IPO plans official, hopes to raise up to $86.25M

It is now in line to be only the second Wall Street debut this year by a Bay Area-based tech company.

TCV investor Jake Reynolds wonders if AI excitement is premature

The longtime Silicon Valley investor talks about what his Palo Alto firm invests in this week's TechFlash Q&A. Among other things, he thinks investors may be getting a bit too far ahead of the curve on artificial intelligence.

Airbnb could hit $30B valuation in new funding round

The San Francisco home-sharing business is already valued higher than most big hotel chains it competes with in the world.

Pinterest to roll out personal photo-detecting shopping feature

Pinterest is getting closer than others when it comes to bringing digital shopping based on image detection to the real world.

StartX alumnus Farm Hill raises $3M as it expands healthy food delivery

Farm Hill delivers freshly prepared, healthy meals and snacks to workplaces using whole, unprocessed ingredients. There’s no minimum order size and meals cost $10 each.

VCs offer first half update on startupland at next week's Pitch event

Four top Silicon Valley venture investors will join TechFlash Editor Cromwell Schubarth for a panel discussion at Google next Wednesday night.

Southwest Airlines to install new reservations system that could yield $500M in annual profit

Birchbox cuts 12 percent of workforce as it looks for profits

Microsoft CEO lays out rules for AI in Bill Gates-style essay

Will streaming shows price themselves out of Netflix and Amazon?

Fertility startup Progyny secures B round from TPG, Kleiner Perkins and others