May 19, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News March 19, 2014 CrowdSystems, the developer of retail analytics tools based on crowdsourcing technology, announced Friday that it closed a $1 million Series A round of financing from Russian venture fund InVenture Partners at an undisclosed...
May 16, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch May 16, 2014 Word Lens wowed when it debuted back in 2010, with its tech that could translate the wording on signs captured with your smartphone’s camera automatically. Now, Quest Visual, the maker of that app, has been acquired by Google, the company...
May 15, 2014 | France, Western Europe
Decanter May 1, 2014 LVMH has acquired 8.66 hectares of Clos des Lambrays, located in Morey-Saint-Denis and one of the largest grand cru vineyards in Burgundy. While the deal has not come as a surprise to many, particularly seeing as Clos des Lambrays was known to be...
May 8, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch May 8, 2014 Long time player in the online learning space, Udemy, which has built a skills-based marketplace where individual tutors can sell their skills and learners can get access to courses (both paid and free), has just closed a $32 million Series C...
May 8, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News March 8, 2014 In late April, Relevant Media, a project of Internet startup developer Fastlane Ventures, raised $1.4 million from a group of undisclosed individual investors. With its three properties – the “how-to”...