May 20, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch May 20, 2014 Mobile wait listing service for restaurants NoWait has raised $10 million in Series B funding, the company is announcing this morning. The new round was led by Drive Capital, the $250 million Ohio-based fund focused on Midwestern companies, and...
May 20, 2014 | China, East Asia, News, North America
TechCrunch May 19, 2014 Amazon has poured $20 million in Yummy77, a food delivery site based in Shanghai. Yummy77 confirmed the funding in a post on Weibo and said it will use the capital to expand into new markets and help Amazon’s China site expand its selection of...
May 19, 2014 | News, North America
Wall Street Journal May 18, 2014 Google Inc. is in talks about a possible acquisition of Twitch, a fast-growing, live-video-streaming service, according to two people familiar with the matter. The talks are at an early stage, and a deal isn’t imminent, the...
May 16, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch May 16, 2014 Word Lens wowed when it debuted back in 2010, with its tech that could translate the wording on signs captured with your smartphone’s camera automatically. Now, Quest Visual, the maker of that app, has been acquired by Google, the company...
May 15, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch May 15, 2014 Is Winter coming? It may already be here, according to VCs like Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures and John Lilly of Greylock. We asked some of the world’s most respected investors about state of valuations at TechCrunch Disrupt NY. The...
May 9, 2014 | News, North America
NEW YORK, May 9 (Reuters) May 9 (Reuters) – Over the past few years conditions have been ideal for dealmaking. Financing has been cheap, thanks to record low interest rates. Balance sheets have been strong, as companies hunkered down in the aftermath of the...
