The article is pretty much useless. It is kind of reflecting to other media over exaggerating the interest in Bitcoin.
However, there seems to be a growing amount of VC investments. People tend to believe that this is going to make an instant impact on the ecosystem, but it won't.

Bitcoin needs time to mature, and time for it to take over. Remember Paypal was founded in December 1998, let us see where Bitcoin is going to be in 10 years.