Jul 28, 2014 | News, North America
Apple Insider Apple may bolster its streaming media services with the addition of technology and talent from Swell, a personalized news radio application currently available for iPhone, which it is said to have bought for $30 million. Apple’s alleged purchase of...
Jul 28, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch In what appears to be part of a summer shopping spree, Apple is reported to be buying Swell, a radio app much like Pandora but focused on talk radio. According to Re/Code, the deal is worth approximately $30 million. Swell is a product out of Concept.io, a...
Jul 28, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News
TechCrunch July 28, 2014 “Bluetooth Low Energy and iBeacon are the building blocks of the next wave of computing,” says Max Niederhofer of the micro-location technology that lets your smartphone trigger events based on how close you are to a Beacon transmitter. “It’s...
Jul 28, 2014 | India, News, South & Central Asia
Business Standard July 28, 2014 Following the footsteps of some of its global peers, India’s third largest information technology (IT) services company, Wipro, has set up a venture capital (VC) fund that will look at investing in early-to-middle stage technology...
Jul 25, 2014 | News, North America, Western Europe
July 25 (Reuters) – Orion Engineered Carbons S.A. raised about $350 million in an initial public offering (IPO) in New York on Friday in which the carbon black producer issued shares at $18 each. The issuance price was below the company’s initial price...
Jul 24, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
Moscow Times July 24, 2014 One of Russia’s largest coffee shop chains, Shokoladnitsa, is near to closing a deal to buy out rival company Coffee House, Kommersant reported Thursday, citing sources close to the negotiations. Shokoladnitsa currently boasts 420...
