Dec 11, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch Adobe today announced that it has acquired Fotolia, a popular marketplace for stock photography and video, for approximately $800 million in cash. The idea is to integrate the service into Adobe’s Creative Cloud and make it easier for Creative Cloud members...
Dec 10, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, North America, Russia
East-West Digital News Nginx (pronounced “engine-x”), a US-based open source web server publisher with Russian origins, has secured $20 million in a Series B1 round of financing from New Enterprise Associates (NEA). German-American fund e.ventures, Moscow-based Runa...
Dec 4, 2014 | Events, North America
As the US economy finally begins to find traction in the wake of the financial crisis, the mergers and acquisitions landscape is slowly thawing as well. Sellers, buyers, and lenders – who reacted to the downturn by pulling in their oars – are starting to return to the...
Nov 27, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, North America, Russia
East-West Digital News AppInTop, a California-based company founded by Russian serial entrepreneur Nikolay Evdokimov, has secured $6 million in a Series A round from Moscow-based Run Capital. The capital injection will be used for marketing and business development....
Nov 24, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, North America, Russia
In California, Ukrainian developers have launched the startup JetMe, a service which allows users to reserve and pay for flights on private jets to any point around the globe. One of the startup’s founders is Yuriy Romanyukha, an associate for Russia-based...
Nov 21, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch Youbetme, the startup behind the social betting app of the same name, announced today that it has raised $2.7 million in Series A funding. Youbetme says it launched the app in January. The company bills itself as a way to “bet on anything, at any...
