Apr 16, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News
TechCrunch April 16, 2014 HeiaHeia, a Finnish startup offering a social and corporate wellness platform that helps employees live a healthier lifestyle — and, presumably, perform better at work — has raised €1.5 million in funding led by Finland’s Wallstreet Financial...
Apr 15, 2014 | News, North America, Oceania
TechCrunch April 15, 2014 Job outsourcing marketplace Freelancer.com has put down a portion of the money it raised from its IPO last fall on buying Warrior Forum, a marketplace and forum for digital marketing professionals.Freelancer.com filed for an IPO last October,...
Apr 15, 2014 | East Asia, News
Reuters April 15, 2014 Acquisition of 51 pct of Model Solution, a South Korean company specialising in prototype design Acquiring Model Solution from Kamur Private Equity for KRW 70 billion (c.40.4 million stg), in conjunction with South Korean private equity...
Apr 15, 2014 | Africa, News
LONDON, April 15 (Reuters) – Nigeria’s Seven Energy said on Tuesday it had secured $255 million from new backers, including Singapore state investor Temasek, to help fund its plan to build up a gas business in the West African country. Seven Energy, an...
Apr 14, 2014 | News, North America
NY Times April 14, 2013 Quora, a question-and-answer website, didn’t need to raise money. It had barely touched $60 million in venture capital that it accepted just two years ago. Yet the California company, which has no revenue and just 70 employees, recently...
Apr 14, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, North America, Russia
East-West Digital News Parallels, a global provider of cloud enabling and desktop virtualization solutions founded by a Russian team in 1999, announced last week an expansion of its strategic alliance with technology distributor Ingram Micro Inc. Not only will Ingram...