Nordic Capital buys majority stake in clothing chain Gina Tricot

Jun 9, 2014 | News, Western Europe

STOCKHOLM, June 9 (Reuters) – Private equity firm Nordic Capital said on Monday it had agreed to buy a majority stake in Gina Tricot from the Appelqvist family, the founders of the Swedish clothing retailer who will retain a significant stake in the company....

Logistics Company aCommerce Raises $10.7M Series A To Serve Southeast Asia’s Booming E-Commerce Market

Jun 9, 2014 | News, Southeast Asia

TechCrunch June 9, 2014 aCommerce, a regional end-to-end e-commerce logistics and service provider for Southeast Asia, has closed a Series A funding round of $10.7 million. According to the company, this is the largest Series A for a Thailand-based startup and one of...

Russian-American startup iBuildApp raises another $200,000

Jun 9, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, North America, Russia

East-West Digital News Mobile app builder iBuildApp has raised $200,000 from Starta Capital and Nikolay Belykh. iBuildApp is an international project that enables clients to build and manage mobile apps. As well as being a resident of Moscow’s Skolkovo IT-Park, the...

Apple Acquires Spotsetter, A Social Search Engine For Places

Jun 6, 2014 | News

TechCrunch Spotsetter, a social search engine using big data to offer personalized recommendations as to places to go, has been quietly snapped up by Apple, TechCrunch has learned. The technology, which involves layering social data on top of a maps interface could be...

Dropbox Acquires Stealth Messaging Startup Droptalk

Jun 5, 2014 | News, North America

TechCrunch June 5, 2014 Dropbox has swallowed up another early stage startup, this one a stealthy company called Droptalk which was developing a tool that allowed you to share links privately with friends via a Chrome extension, to be followed by both iOS and Android...

Gazprom Pumps $57 Million Into 2 Russian Hockey Teams

Jun 5, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia

Moscow Times Gazprom Neft, the oil-producing arm of Russian state gas company Gazprom, has finalized sponsorship deals with the SKA and Avangard hockey clubs worth a total of about 2 billion rubles ($57 million), Vedomosti reported Wednesday. The St. Petersburg-based...