Apr 18, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, North America, Russia
East-West Digital News April 18, 2014 As Russia and Ukraine were escalating to a new level of mutual threats and recriminations earlier this week, venture funds offered a welcome illustration that nationalism has not completely spoiled relations between the two...
Apr 18, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, North America, Russia
East-West Digital News In a bid to “educate the private sector and raise awareness about economic espionage and cyber counterintelligence,” FBI special agents Lucia M. Ziobro and Vincent B. Lisi warned Boston-area businesses and academic institutions...
Apr 16, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch April 16, 2014 AngelList is working on a new project called Maiden Lane. Behind this name is a new experiment in startup investment. Structured as a traditional small VC firm, Maiden Lane will only invest in AngelList syndicates or hand some money to active...
Apr 15, 2014 | News, North America, Oceania
TechCrunch April 15, 2014 Job outsourcing marketplace Freelancer.com has put down a portion of the money it raised from its IPO last fall on buying Warrior Forum, a marketplace and forum for digital marketing professionals.Freelancer.com filed for an IPO last October,...
Apr 14, 2014 | North America
NY Times April 14, 2014 Google is reaching for the clouds, and not the virtual ones. On Monday, the company said that it had purchased Titan Aerospace, the maker of high-altitude drone satellites, which will be used to take photos of the earth and to connect people to...
Apr 14, 2014 | News, North America
NY Times April 14, 2013 Quora, a question-and-answer website, didn’t need to raise money. It had barely touched $60 million in venture capital that it accepted just two years ago. Yet the California company, which has no revenue and just 70 employees, recently...
