The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission has told Google to move its mystery barge where construction is currently going on because it lacks the necessary permits, The Associated Press reported.

Palo Alto, US-based legal search and analytics startup Ravel Law raised $8.1 million in funding to build a tool that will help lawyers cut research time and cut costs, according to an exclusive report by VentureBeat.

nCrypted Cloud, a service that encrypts shared data on Dropbox, Google Drive and others, raised $3 million from angel investors for its seed funding round, TechCrunch reported.

Private equity investment firm Stockton Road Capital has made a minority investment together with affiliates of CCMP Capital Advisors in their purchase of nutrition firm Jamieson Laboratories.

U.S. stocks slumped on Monday, with the S&P 500 suffering its worst drop since June, after weaker-than-expected data on the factory sector in the world's largest economyprovided investors with the latest reason to move away from riskier assets.

According to a report on Benzinga by Tim Melvin, individual investors may want to heed to private equity firms' strategies with regard to investing assets, citing the industry's record gains it posted last year.

Sundar Pichai, a senior vice president at Google, has reportedly emerged as the leading candidate for Microsoft's chief executive officer post. Pichai is competing head-to-head with Microsoft insider Satya Nadella.

Clothing retailer Jos. A. Bank, which is in a takeover war with Men's Wearhouse, is reportedly in talks to buy Washington-based peer Eddie Bauer. Eddie Bauer is owned by New York hedge fund Golden Gate Capital.

Co-Signer, Inc. today announced its subsidiary's default ratio for calendar 2013 was 2.3% of total contracts for the period in contrast to its budgeted internal forecast of 7%. With an expanded sales effort for the immediate past year of its service product in targeted communities nationwide, the Company reported this milestone was achieved through its continuous monitoring of its underwriting.

Spokane, Washington-based startup iCPooch launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to raise $20,000 for the production of a device that allows dog owners to send treats or conduct facetime with their dogs when they are away from home.