Feb 20, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch On the web, no one can hear you converse – or perhaps they can, but it’s not terribly easy to surface them and have a sustained, engaged dialogue around any particular topic. Threaded comment streams do this to some extent, as do forums, message...
Feb 20, 2014 | France, News, Western Europe
PARIS, Feb 20 (Reuters) – French property group Gecina has reached a preliminary deal to sell the Beaugrenelle shopping mall in Paris for 700 million euros ($960 million) to a group of private investors, the company said on Thursday. Gecina has been selling off...
Feb 18, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch These days, many hotel interactions with their guests happen through third-party platforms: The Travelocities, Yelps, and Foursquares of the world get the feedback that hotels need and depend on, and this generally happens in a public forum. One-to-one...
Feb 18, 2014 | China, East Asia, News
TechCrunch English-learning platform TutorGroup announced that it has raised a $100 million Series B round from investors including Chinese Internet giant Alibaba Group, Singaporean investment firm Temasek, and Qiming Venture Partners. TutorGroup says it plans to use...
Feb 18, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News Gazprombank, an affiliate of the state-controlled gas giant, now has a controlling stake in WebMediaGroup, after acquiring the stake previously held by Rostelecom’s president Sergey Kalugin. WebMediaGroup’s other shareholders are Leader...
Feb 17, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News Ernst & Young (EY) and RVC, the state-owned fund of funds for developing the Russian venture industry, have just issued a survey on market dynamics titled “Russian and Global Venture Markets, 2007–2013.” According to report, the Russian VC...
