Aug 26, 2014 | MENA, News
Turkey’s Iyzico, which provides a platform to let e-commerce sites and other apps easily accept online payments (and can be thought of as the ‘Stripe of Turkey’), has raised a $1.4 million series B round. The funding was led by Turkish VC 212 Invest, along with...
Aug 26, 2014 | News, North America, Western Europe
Tastebuds.fm, the app that matches people based on their musical tastes, has found a match of its own. The London-based startup is acquiring U.S. competitor moosify, a mobile-first “social dating” app that also connects people around music. Terms of the deal remain...
Aug 26, 2014 | India, News, South & Central Asia
Economic Times NEW DELHI: Warburg Pincus is set to invest $200 million in Kalyan Jewellers for a minority stake in Kalyan Jewellers as the appetite for retail gold jewellery franchisee among private equity investors remains undiminished despite regulatory controls and...
Aug 26, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
In a confirmation of the country’s commitment to developing new technologies, the Russian government announced that a fraction of the total assets of the country’s pension savings funds will be invested in the shares of venture capital funds, as well as in securities...
Aug 25, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News In its accounts for the first half of 2014, Mail.ru Group has disclosed the sum it paid in April of this year to Ivan Tavrin for 12% of VKontakte, Russia’s leading social network also known as VK.com. The stake cost the group around $345...
Aug 23, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch Mobile device and location verification service Zumigo closed a Series B funding round led by Intel Capital on Friday, reporting it raised $6 million. Zumigo wants to take the password out of the authentication process. Using the location of your phone,...
