Feb 6, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch Today, alongside a fourth quarter earnings report in which it beat Wall Street estimates yet again, LinkedIn announced its intentions to acquire data-savvy job search startup, Bright.com, for $120 million. The deal, which was 70 percent stock and 30 percent...
Feb 6, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News
TechCrunch Spare a thought for accountants. Slovak startup Datamolino has, by building a platform for SMEs to cut through the tedium of manual data entry of invoices and receipts, and it’s proving to be a lucrative idea — as the b2b startup has just...
Feb 6, 2014 | Brazil, Latin America, News
TechCrunch Internet penetration and social media usage are on the rise in every corner of the globe, but few can hold a candle to the level of adoption one finds in Brazil. According to the Internet Telecommunication Union, the UN’s specialized agency for...
Feb 5, 2014 | India, News, South & Central Asia
India’s e-commerce market is projected to grow sevenfold to $22 billion in the next five years, and investors and global e-commerce companies want to have a piece of the action. We have learned that Myntra, one of the bigger fashion portals in the country...
Feb 4, 2014 | News, North America
NY Times 4 February On Tuesday, Foursquare, the location-sharing application, announced a data licensing partnership and $15 million investment from Microsoft. The partnership is described as a “commercial and technical” licensing deal that will knit Foursquare...
Feb 4, 2014 | News, North America
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 4 (Reuters) – Information-technology network company Spiceworks announced on Tuesday it had raised $57 million in venture-capital funding led by Goldman Sachs. The Austin, Texas-based company said in a press release it would use the cash to...
