Sep 26, 2013 | India, News, South & Central Asia
Economic Times Sept 24 BANGALORE: Seedfund, an early-stage investor, has invested in Axis Rooms Travel Distribution Solutions, whose room management software allows hotels to update and share their inventory status with agents and portals in real time. Currently,...
Sep 24, 2013 | News, North America
TechCrunch C9 has a new CEO and $12 million in funding for its platform that helps customers forecast sales revenues. The Series D round was led by existing investors Mayfield Fund, InterWest Partners and Leapfrog Ventures. The company has raised a total of $40...
Sep 24, 2013 | Brazil, Latin America, News
TechCrunch Sept 24 For those who haven’t yet heard of FormaFina, think of it as the Fab of South America. The e-commerce startup, which sells curated, limited-run collections of decor products in Argentina and Brazil, has raised a seed round of $1.4 million to anchor...
Sep 24, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
New York Times Sept 24 MOSCOW — A Russian government-owned conglomerate announced plans on Monday to sell to two private investors just under half of the company that makes Kalashnikov assault rifles. The company, Izhevsk Machine Works, has made AK-47s, which are the...
Sep 23, 2013 | News, North America, Western Europe
TechCrunch With APIs from the likes of Twilio (and emerging Layer) fuelling a new concept of how cloud-based architecture can be applied to the worlds of telephony and communications, UK startup NewVoiceMedia is today announcing a new round of $35 million to build out...