Jan 16, 2015 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
Rostelecom, Russia’s national telecom operator, announced yesterday the acquisition of a majority stake in SafeData (LLC Data Storage Centre), a leading operator of commercial data centers, traffic exchange services and content delivery. In a first stage,...
Jan 9, 2015 | News, North America
Wall Street Jounal Facebook said Thursday it has acquired video-compression company QuickFire Networks, further underscoring the social networking giant’s increasing focus on video. Quickfire, based in San Diego, says it can quickly convert video formats and allow...
Jan 8, 2015 | News, Western Europe
TechCrunch Samba Networks (formerly Samba Mobile) has closed a £250,000 ($377,000) angel round of investment from Digicel, Mark Charkin (formerly of King.com and Bebo), and other existing angels, followed its pivot last year. The U.K. startup was founded back in 2010,...
Jan 8, 2015 | News, Western Europe
Mister Spex, the European ‘online optician’ (that’s an eyewear online retailer, to you and me), has picked up a new $40 million round in funding led by U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs. The Berlin-based company’s existing backers also participated, including...
Jan 8, 2015 | India, News, South & Central Asia
Wall Street Journal An investment arm of search giant Google is betting that India’s online real estate market is set to boom. Google Capital is providing fresh funding to CommonFloor, the Bangalore-based startup said in a statement Thursday. The amount of the...
Jan 7, 2015 | China, East Asia, News
NetDragon, one of China’s leading mobile and games development companies, has raised $52.5 million in Series A funding for its online education business from investors including IDG Capital, Vertex Venture, and Alpha Animation, an animation studio based in...
