Jan 31, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News Yandex announced earlier this week an agreement with MultiShip, a Moscow-based startup that aggregates offers from different shipment companies to help online retailers optimize their deliveries across the country. In addition to acquiring a...
Jan 30, 2014 | News, North America
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 30 (Reuters) – One Kings Lane, the online home-furnishings company, has raised $112 million, catapulting it into an elite group of venture-backed companies valued in the billion-dollar range. The funding round puts the company’s worth at...
Jan 30, 2014 | Africa, News
(Reuters) – African phone tower group IHS Plc has won shareholder approval to take the company private and will pay $118 million to buy out equity holders, it said on Thursday. IHS, which owns and manages base stations and towers that transmit mobile phone...
Jan 30, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News
LJUBLJANA, Jan 30 (Reuters) – Slovenia has sold the second public company from a list of 15 state assets slated for privatisation for a reported 18 million euros ($25 million), as part of efforts to revive its economy after narrowly avoiding an EU/IMF bailout...
Jan 29, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News Berlin-based web hosting startup cloudpartner.de has raised €1.5 million from Runa Capital, a Moscow-based venture fund operating internationally. This Series A round – the terms of which have not been disclosed – will help the company provide...
Jan 29, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch We now have more details about the deal between Yahoo and Tomfoolery, an enterprise app studio co-founded by ex-Yahoo and ex-AOL alums, which we and others have reported is getting acquired by Yahoo. According to a source close to the deal, the acquisition...
