Here s what the buzz is about in Silicon Valley this morning:
Silicon Valley venture capital funding surged in the third quarter, with almost $8 billion invested.
Uber is legal in London, a British court has ruled.
Alibaba offers to buy Chinese video site for $3.6 billion.
Daily fantasy sports sites such as FanDuel and DraftKings have been ordered shut in Nevada, unless they can get gambling licenses.
More trouble for Theranos: The FDA has forced the Palo Alto startup to back away from most of its highly touted lab tests, the Wall Street Journal reports.
A judgment could come today in the University of Wisconsin s patent case against Apple, and it could be huge.
Another security flaw has been found in all versions of Adobe Flash.
Tech incubator Y Combinator has launched a new fund aimed at later-stage investments in its most successful companies.
Movie theater owners are not happy with Netflix s new foray into film.
New Twitter chairman Omid Kordestani could make around $36 million for his efforts.
Google has won court approval to continue with its massive book-scanning project.
Experts say Netflix blaming chipped credit cards for its slow user growth is a bunch of hooey.
Is the IPO party winding down? New data shows IPO valuations are falling back to Earth.
Is Facebook trying to be more like YouTube?
Dropbox has unveiled Paper, a Google Docs-like collaborative app.
At top: In this file photo taken, Dec. 16, 2014, a woman leaves the headquarters of Uber in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
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