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 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...
Feb 4, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, North America, Russia
East-West Digital News Yesterday Boombotix, a San Francisco-based startup developing audio hardware and software, announced a $4 million strategic investment from existing and new investors. Among them is Grishin Robotics, a venture fund launched in 2012 by Mail.ru...
Feb 1, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch Kickstarter funding will often lead to the more traditional kind, and in the case of Boombotix, that’s exactly what happened. The California startup raised $17,000 for its music syncing app, which allows people to synchronize playback of music across...
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...
