May 8, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch May 8, 2014 Long time player in the online learning space, Udemy, which has built a skills-based marketplace where individual tutors can sell their skills and learners can get access to courses (both paid and free), has just closed a $32 million Series C...
May 8, 2014 | East Asia, News
HONG KONG, May 8 (Reuters) – CVC Capital Partners has agreed to buy South Korea’s KFC franchise from a subsidiary of Doosan Co Ltd for 100 billion won ($98 million), Doosan said on Thursday. The deal is CVC’s fourth in the restaurant space in 18...
May 8, 2014 | News, Western Europe
TechCrunch March 8, 2014 Down to its last £100 in November 2012, UK startup Hassle.com (then called Teddle) was at a crossroads: Exit the consumer space altogether, where it had been offering a local services marketplace, and try to flog its scheduling and CRM...
May 8, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News March 8, 2014 In late April, Relevant Media, a project of Internet startup developer Fastlane Ventures, raised $1.4 million from a group of undisclosed individual investors. With its three properties – the “how-to”...
May 8, 2014 | News, North America
SAN FRANCISCO, May 7 (Reuters) – Google Ventures led a $130 million investment in oncology-data company Flatiron Health, Flatiron said on Wednesday. The cash will allow New York-based Flatiron to acquire Altos Solutions, an electronic medical-records company...
May 5, 2014 | News, Western Europe
May 4 (Reuters) – German engineering firm Siemens AG is close to finalizing an agreement to sell its logistics and airports solutions business to a group led by billionaire investor Wilbur Ross, Bloomberg reported on Sunday, quoting people familiar with the...
