Aug 7, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch Two Tap, a Y Combinator-backed startup that aims to become the “shopping cart of the entire Internet,” today announced that it has raised a $2.7 million seed round from the likes of Khosla Ventures, SV Angel, Green Visor Capital, Ryan Petersen, Reddit...
Aug 7, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News August 7, 2014 Moscow-based company T8 Publishing Technologies is planning to invest no less than 6 billion rubles (approximately $170 million) in an ambitious print-on-demand project, the Moscow authorities announced last week. The company...
Aug 7, 2014 | News, South & Central Asia, Western Europe
TechCrunch Rocket Internet and Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT), a telecom operator, announced today that they have entered into a strategic partnership to develop online and mobile payment products. PLDT will invest €333 million (about $445 million)...
Aug 6, 2014 | East Asia, News
Spoqa, the Seoul-based mobile loyalty platform that won the special prize of the jury at TechCrunch Disrupt Tokyo 2011, has raised a total of $3.9 million in funding to date led by Daesung Private Equity group and Bokwang Investments to fuel its expansion in Korea and...
Aug 5, 2014 | Latin America, News, Western Europe
MEXICO CITY, Aug 5 (Reuters) -Mexico’s Mexichem said on Tuesday it had signed a deal to buy Germany-based Vestolit, a maker of durable plastics used for windows floorings and pipes, for 219 million euros ($293.09 million).
Aug 4, 2014 | News, Western Europe
TechCrunch It’s only a few weeks since Google Ventures announced it’s setting up shop in London as a hub for investing $100 million all over Europe. Now another big fund has been unboxed by local German media firm, Bauer Media. The new fund — €100 million or circa...
