Apr 23, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News
TechCrunch April 24, 2014 Another funding round for another taxi app company — albeit this one, Estonian startup Taxify, is focusing on helping existing taxi companies fight the encroaching threat on their business from independent drivers making like cabbies with...
Apr 22, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News April 22, 2014 HealBe, a St. Petersburg-based startup, has won the hearts of crowdfunders at Indiegogo.com with GoBe, its wearable device for automatic calorie intake measurement. A campaign that started on March 5 with a fairly unassuming goal...
Apr 22, 2014 | MENA, News
DUBAI, April 22 (Reuters) – A consortium of Gulf-based investors including Fajr Capital and Arab Petroleum Investment Corp (Apicorp) have agreed on a deal to acquire Dubai-based oilfield services firm National Petroleum Services, Fajr said on Tuesday. The...
Apr 22, 2014 | News, Western Europe
LONDON, April 22 (Reuters) – British greeting cards retailer Card Factory plans to list its shares on London’s stock market in May, joining a spate of store groups seeking flotations as the outlook for consumer spending improves. The over 700 stores firm,...
Apr 22, 2014 | China, East Asia, News
SHANGHAI, April 21 (Reuters) – Chinese drugmaker Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group Co Ltd and private equity firm TPG Capital agreed to buy China-focused Chindex International Inc in a beefed-up $461 million deal after trumping a rival bid. The U.S.-listed...
Apr 21, 2014 | India, News, South & Central Asia
TechCrunch April 21, 2014 Frrole, a big data startup that specializes in Twitter-based analytics, has raised $245K in Angel funding from investors including Sharad Sharma (former head of Yahoo! R&D centre in india), Google’s India MD Rajan Anandan and Eka...
