Oct 11, 2013 | News, North America
TechCrunch Oct 10 New York-based Hubbl, a maker of app discovery and personalization technologies, has been snapped up by mobile ad platform Airpush for $15 million, the companies are announcing today. The two businesses will combine their respective efforts – Hubbl...
Oct 11, 2013 | News, North America
TechCrunch Oct 11 Amazon has announced plans to snap up online education company TenMarks. The company offers an online math curriculum currently, and Amazon VP of Kindle Dave Limp says that together, “Amazon and TenMarks intend to develop rich educational content and...
Oct 10, 2013 | News, North America, Western Europe
Techcrunch Oct 9 Partech Ventures, a VC firm that operates from offices in Paris, Berlin and Silicon Valley, has closed a total of $215 million for its Partech VI venture fund and a new seed-focused Entrepreneur fund. Partech’s venture fund will be backed by $175...
Oct 10, 2013 | News, North America
Techcrunch Oct 9 CoreOS, a Y Combinator alum, has received investment from Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital for its new Linux-based operating system designed to run like Google would run its own cloud infrastructure. Terms of the deal were not disclosed but CEO...
Oct 10, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, North America, Russia
Washington, D.C. October 08, 2013 A total of 87 applicants from more than 30 cities across Russia sought to land one of just three residency openings in the U.S.-Russia Innovation Corridor (USRIC), a collaborative innovation initiative led by American Councils for...