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The multicultural Swedish city of Malmö has spent an estimated 900,000 Swedish kronor (£76,409/$108,045) on a 20-foot high pink unicorn as part of a World Pride event set for August.

A golden retriever puppy who lost one of her ears due to an accident at birth is becoming Instagram famous as the “Golden Unicorn.”

Members of the Butler County Sheriff’s Office in Ohio surprised an eight-year-old girl battling stage four brain cancer with a ride on a “unicorn.”

Baltimore police were called to a convenience store after a man dressed in a unicorn costume reportedly drew a crowbar and robbed the place.

Uber’s founder and former CEO, Travis Kalanick, retaliated against Uber’s board of directors by appointing two new board members last week in what looks like the opening round in a battle for control of Silicon Valley’s most valuable tech unicorn.

Snapchat’s parent, Snap Inc., completed the largest initial public offering in the history of Los Angeles County by raising $3.4 billion in cash on a $24 billion market valuation of the Silicon Beach company on Wednesday.

Silicon Valley’s Zenefits has gone from one of 2015’s hottest venture capital-backed unicorns, with a $4.5 billion valuation, to a crashing, money-losing disaster.

In the 1985 James Bond classic A View to a Kill, super-villain Max Zorin (Christopher Walken) plots to destroy Silicon Valley. That was fiction, of course — but this year, tech start-ups have suffered 70 “down-rounds” as venture capitalists have suddenly demanded that companies become profitable.

Cybersecurity leader SecureWorks Corp. may be the first tech IPO filing that actually completes an initial public offering (IPO) in 2016.

So-called “unicorn” tech companies in Silicon Valley valued at over $1 billion by private equity investors are becoming “unicorpses.”

Was that a unicorn that a California Highway Patrol helicopter captured on Wednesday in Madera?

CEO Marissa Mayer denied rumors over the weekend that with Yahoo stock down 38 percent over the last twelve months, she was about to leave the company.

Global venture capitalists invested $56.31 billion in 4,894 deals during the first half of 2015–the lowest number of deals recorded by the Pitchbook blog over a six month period in the last 25 years. The major reason for a smaller number of companies being funded is that venture capitalists are throwing huge amounts of money at a small number of “unicorns.”

Earlier this week, Breitbart News broke described how hedge funds paid too much for venture investments and are actually losing money on many public offerings. Now a new report by pitchbook.com called “Are IPO down rounds to blame for dearth of VC tech IPOs?” reveals that the number of venture-backed tech companies seeking to go public is dwindling to a trickle. If the initial public offering (IPO) window closes, Silicon Valley could face a Dot-com Crash Version 2.0.

Rep. Sanchez (D-CA) claims her Republican colleagues are using the Benghazi Select Committee to feed conspiracy theories about the attacks.