Jack Byer

December Boys is a film that was released in 2007, and stars Daniel Radcliffe (of Harry Potter fame), Lee Cormie, Christian Byers, James Fraser, Jack Thompson, Teresa Palmer, Sullivan Stapleton and Victoria...

The American elderberry is showing promise as a profitable commercial fruit crop. Traditionally used for making jelly, juice, and wine, elderberry is becoming increasing important in North America’s burgeoning “nutraceutical” industry. Historically, elderberries have mostly been harvested from the wild; researchers have made recently made efforts to select or develop improved cultivars. Increased interest and emerging markets are encouraging scientists to develop improved elderberry cultivars that yield consistent, superior production. Scientists from the University of Missouri have introduced a new variety named ‘Wyldewood’, a tall, vigorous elderberry plant that consistently produces heavy yields, is efficient to harvest, and produces fruit well-suited for processing. The Elderberry Improvement Project was initiated at Missouri State University and the University of Missouri in 1997 with the goal of developing American elderberry cultivars adapted to Midwestern environments. ‘Wyldewood’ is the first cultivar released from the program. Originally described and tested as ‘Brush Hills 1′ and ‘Wyldewood 1′, the new release was identified and collected from the wild by Jack Millican in 1995 near the community of Brush Hill, Oklahoma. The cultivar was named in honor of Wyldewood Cellars Winery of Mulvane, Kansas, a leading promoter of elderberry production in the Midwest and a supporter of the Elderberry Improvement Project. ‘Wyldewood’ was tested and observed beginning in 1998 at two locations in southern Missouri. According to corresponding author Patrick L. Byers of the University of Missouri Cooperative Extension Service in Springfield, ‘Wyldewood’ outperformed the standard ‘Adams II’ elderberry in yield potential and berry size; ‘Wyldewood berry weights ranged from a low of 52 mg to a high of 111 mg. The harvest season for ‘Wyldewood’ is generally 14 to 26 days later than the standard ‘Adams II’, with harvest usually be

McCue started working on Flipboard late last year as it became apparent that Apple was working on a computer tablet. He had been looking for something new to do since last summer when he left Tellme, a voice recognition company that he co-founded in 1999 and sold to Microsoft for about $800 million in 2007. Evan Doll, a former Apple engineer who worked on the iPhone, joined McCue in building Flipboard. The 15-employee company is starting out with $10.5 million in funding from two prominent venture capital firms, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Index Ventures, and two social media pioneers, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskowitz.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Square, the mobile payment service started by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, secured $100 million in a financing round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.Tiger Global Management

If you need any further evidence that the mobile payments arena is going to be huge over the next few years, just look at Square. The mobile payments startup, created by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, has raised $100 million in a third round of funding led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, s...

Square readerAs you might have heard, earlier this week, Jack Dorsey and those other lucky dogs remaking the payments industry over at Square nabbed $100 million in new funding (and a $1 billion valuation) from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Tiger Global Management.

In 2006, Byers was in Cashmere to buy an antique steam tractor and mentioned — “I was just thinking out loud, mind you” — to former owner Jack Jones that the hulking, 75-year-old warehouse had commercial possibilities. Byers said that ...

He was jockeying for the top job at the FBI. Woodward and Himmelman are also dueling in the pages of Politico, where Dylan Byers is covering the story. In one Byers piece, Woodward accused Himmelman of not including in his New York excerpt a Bradlee ...

Byers also participated in Kobudo. Greenwell also was in Kumite and Kobudo. Jack Link, 14, also participated in Kobudo and Individual Kata. At the Junior Olympics, Scalise and Byers also participated in Individual Kata. Byers and Greenwell also ...

She said that on the previous night, she was at Jack’s Lounge with Napier, Kristy Byers, Dustin Moore and Gerald Pickett. The group left the bar and returned to Sorrells’ house. There, Sorrells told police she saw brown powder (identified as ...

It’s a bold move by Square’s chief, Jack Dorsey, who effectively holds two full-time ... Khosla Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the venture capital firm that led its last investment round. Still, the business doesn’t make ...

“It is the only anchor from a ship lost at Dunkirk during Operation Dynamo to be raised from the seabed,” said Jack, who worked for the Steam Packet Company for 40 years. “But we would like to know more about it. We know that it was forged at WL ...

Square, which was founded by Twitter inventor Jack Dorsey, has quickly made accepting credit ... include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Tiger Global Management, Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, Visa and well-known entrepreneur Richard ...

Square CEO Jack Dorsey and COO Keith Rabois have been spotted in ... Square has raised about $137 million from investors including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Tiger Global Management, Sequoia Capital and Khosla Ventures.

Square has raised about $137 million from investors including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Tiger Global Management ... triangle-shaped dongle that attaches to a phone or tablet's audio jack in the same fashion as Square's own payment ...