Oct 10, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, North America, Russia
Do you think that in the eyes of Western creative workers, Russia is the birthplace of bears, Skolkovo start-ups and falling rocket projects that change the world? You will be disappointed – the campaign, which in its first week exceeded the request for Kickstarter...
Oct 9, 2013 | News, North America
Oct 9 (Reuters) – (Reuters) – CACI International (CACI.N) on Wednesday said it would buy Six3 Systems Inc from private equity firm GTCR for about $820 million to strengthen its intelligence support services to the U.S. government, the company’s...
Sep 30, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, North America, Russia, Western Europe
TechCrunch Berlin’s Rocket Internet has of late made a big business out of incubating and growing e-commerce startups in emerging markets, far away from the U.S. where the competitive field is much more crowded. But today comes news of a funding round for portfolio...
Sep 30, 2013 | News, North America
Techcrunch San Jose-based Varentec, a company that builds power management and monitoring solutions for the electric grid, today announced the close of an $8 million Series B round of funding from Bill Gates and Khosla Ventures. The new funding follows its $7.7...
Sep 30, 2013 | News, North America
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 27 (Reuters) – Data-analytics company Palantir Technologies has raised $196.5 million, the company disclosed Friday in a regulatory filing. The Palo Alto-based company, founded by former PayPal executives, builds analytics software for the...
Sep 26, 2013 | News, North America
TechCrunch As Bitcoin, the math-based currency that enthusiasts say could revolutionize online transactions, becomes more mainstream, its supporters have been looking for ways to make it more accessible to investors. Today SecondMarket, a platform where privately-held...
