Sep 11, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Western Europe
VIENNA, Sept 11 (Reuters) – Struggling Austrian home improvements group BauMax has sold its Bulgarian unit with eight stores to local investor Haedus JSC, it said on Thursday, taking another step in its campaign to shrink back to health. It gave no financial...
Sep 11, 2014 | News, Western Europe
Festicket, the UK startup that offers a travel booking and discovery site for festival goers, has closed a $2.7 million Series A round. The new funding, which adds to a $680,000 seed round raised in March 2013, is being led by European VCs, Wellington Partners and...
Sep 11, 2014 | MENA, News
LONDON/DUBAI, Sept 11 (Reuters) – Dubai private equity firm Ithmar Capital has sold a 7.3 percent stake in Al Noor Hospitals for 10.30 pounds per share, two sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday, in a deal worth 87.55 million pounds ($142 million). *...
Sep 11, 2014 | News, Oceania, Western Europe
TechCrunch Online learning startups are aplenty right now — from heavily-funded U.S-based MOOCS, such as Coursera and Udacity, to more thrifty European players like Iversity and Eliademy — there’s no doubt the edtech space is heating up. Now another startup is...
Aug 29, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News In a series on Europe’s “hottest startups,” the UK edition of tech magazine Wired published earlier this month a selection of 10 Russian startups. These included peer-to-peer publishing platform Gitoon, e-commerce intelligence platform Ometria,...
