Apr 7, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch April 7 After Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel and other Silicon Valley notables plunked down capital in a $40 million growth round for San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup Vicarious, a few more billionaires showed up. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos,...
Apr 3, 2014 | News, North America, Western Europe
TechCrunch April 3, 2014 Apple quietly acquired an automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology company called Novauris Technologies, which grew out of Dragon Systems R&D U.K. Ltd., the British research subsidiary of Dragon Systems, a well-known voice dictation...
Apr 1, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch April 1, 2014 Looks like instead of being acquired, wrist and speaker hardware company Jawbone is doing some acquiring, scooping up social and personalized music playlist app Playground.fm, according to a well-placed source. Last time we heard something...
Mar 31, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch March 31, 2014 Video chat marketplace LiveNinja, a former TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Alley participant, has raised an additional $500,000 in new funding, the company is announcing today. The news, which is being announced onstage at The Atlantic’s Startup...
Mar 28, 2014 | News, North America
March 28 (Reuters) – Payment processor Mercury Payment Systems Inc, backed by private equity firm Silver Lake Group LLC, filed with U.S. regulators on Friday to raise about $100 million in an initial public offering of common stock. The company told the U.S...
Mar 27, 2014 | North America
Washington Post March 26, 2014 Capital Teas, the six-store chainlet of specialty tea shops based in Annapolis, has received a $5 million investment from Pear Tree Partners in Massachusetts to help grow its business. Capital Teas co-founder and chief executive Peter...
