Sep 13, 2013 | East Asia, News, North America
Sept 12 | Thu Sep 12, 2013 6:59pm EDT Reuters Private equity firm Advent International and an Asian partner have agreed to take a large stake in coffee and tea retailer, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf. Boston-based Advent declined to disclose the size of the...
Sep 11, 2013 | News, North America, Oceania
TechCrunch Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter is expanding its platform to two markets Down Under. It is opening up its network to Australia and New Zealand-based projects “in the very near future,” the company says, drumming up interest two days after the site opened...
Sep 11, 2013 | News, North America
Tech Crunch Sept 11 Social media management and marketing platform MarketMeSuite has landed a new strategic investment of $1.25 million from Talus Holdings, a media technology holding company. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based startup says the new funding is...
Sep 11, 2013 | News, North America
Reuters Sept 9 – U.S. public market operator NYSE Euronext said on Monday it was getting into the $1 trillion-a-year private placement business through a minority stake in Ace Group Inc, which runs a private issuance platform for equity, debt and other...
Sep 11, 2013 | News, North America
Reuters SAN FRANCISCO Sep 10 Twitter has bought online mobile-ad exchange MoPub, the company said in a blog post Monday. The San Francisco-based companies did not disclose terms, but a person familiar with the matter said Twitter paid $350 million in stock for MoPub....
Sep 10, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, North America, Russia
East-West Digital News Last week Palo Alto, California-based startup Jelastic, which offers a cloud-based hosting platform for Java application developers, announced that it has secured an investment from Maxfield Capital, a $100 million Russian venture fund that...
