Jun 4, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch June 4, 2014 Profitero, a SaaS provider of online insights and e-commerce intelligence for retailers and brands, has raised $8 million from Polaris Partners. It will use the funds to double its 40-strong engineering team and expand its presence in North...
Jun 4, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
Moscow Times Shares in Russian search engine Yandex had a rollercoaster first day on the Moscow stock exchange, rising in early trading to exceed the company’s New York share price by 36 percent before dropping back 25 percent by the day’s end. After 35...
Jun 4, 2014 | News, North America
June 4 (Reuters) – American Lawyer publisher ALM Media, which was once controlled by Bruce Wasserstein, has been sold to the late Wall Street dealmaker’s investment firm Wasserstein & Co, the companies said in a statement. Financial details of the...
Jun 4, 2014 | News, North America
June 4 (Reuters) – Airline ticketing company Travelport Worldwide Ltd, controlled by private equity firm Blackstone Group LP, filed with U.S. regulators on Wednesday to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering of common stock. *...
Jun 4, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News June 4, 2014 Finam, one of Russia’s most well-established financial groups, has teamed up with Skagit Investment, a Moscow-based IT investment company, to launch an international venture fund, christened FinSight Ventures, which aims to raise...
Jun 4, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch June 4, 2014 Gild, the startup that has built a service that helps companies find and hire software engineers, has closed on $13.5 million in a new round of funding. The new round, which is Gild’s Series B, brings the company’s total funding to around $27...
