Apr 21, 2014 | News, North America
FinPlus The Canadian social login and sharing service for websites, which now serves more than 100,000 sites in more than 180 countries, has raised its first financing. Founded by Rakesh Soni and Deepak Gupta the Edmonton based company is a graduate of FounderFuel,...
Apr 18, 2014 | News, North America
New York Times Deal Book April 18 Airbnb has closed a new round of financing from a group led by TPG Growth that values the home-sharing company at about $10 billion, people briefed on the matter said on Friday. The group, which invested $475 million in the company,...
Apr 14, 2014 | North America
NY Times April 14, 2014 Google is reaching for the clouds, and not the virtual ones. On Monday, the company said that it had purchased Titan Aerospace, the maker of high-altitude drone satellites, which will be used to take photos of the earth and to connect people to...
Apr 14, 2014 | News, North America
NY Times April 14, 2013 Quora, a question-and-answer website, didn’t need to raise money. It had barely touched $60 million in venture capital that it accepted just two years ago. Yet the California company, which has no revenue and just 70 employees, recently...
Mar 27, 2014 | North America
Washington Post March 26, 2014 Capital Teas, the six-store chainlet of specialty tea shops based in Annapolis, has received a $5 million investment from Pear Tree Partners in Massachusetts to help grow its business. Capital Teas co-founder and chief executive Peter...
