Mar 31, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch March 31, 2014 Video chat marketplace LiveNinja, a former TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Alley participant, has raised an additional $500,000 in new funding, the company is announcing today. The news, which is being announced onstage at The Atlantic’s Startup...
Mar 31, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
Moscow Times March 31, 2014 SIMFEROPOL, Crimea — Russia will make Crimea a special economic zone offering tax breaks and reduced bureaucracy to attract investors, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Monday. “Our aim is to make the peninsula as attractive as...
Mar 31, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
Moscow Times April 1, 2014 The Cabinet approved a plan to privatize an additional 431 companies through 2016, according to a document published on the government’s website Monday. About 20 percent of Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port, the Russian Lottery, and...
Mar 31, 2014 | News, Western Europe
TechCrunch March 31, 2014 Fluentify, a London-based videoconferencing language learning platform founded last year, has closed a $410,000 angel investment, led by Stefano Marsaglia, former chairman of Barclays global financial institutions group and current co-head of...
Mar 31, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News March 31, 2014 Smartfin, a provider of mobile payment solutions in Russia under the brand 2can, has just completed a $5 million Series B round of financing with the participation of previous investors InVenture and Almaz Capital, two major...
Mar 28, 2014 | News, North America
March 28 (Reuters) – Payment processor Mercury Payment Systems Inc, backed by private equity firm Silver Lake Group LLC, filed with U.S. regulators on Friday to raise about $100 million in an initial public offering of common stock. The company told the U.S...
