Oct 11, 2013 | News, North America
TechCrunch Oct 11 Amazon has announced plans to snap up online education company TenMarks. The company offers an online math curriculum currently, and Amazon VP of Kindle Dave Limp says that together, “Amazon and TenMarks intend to develop rich educational content and...
Oct 10, 2013 | News, North America
Techcrunch Oct 9 CoreOS, a Y Combinator alum, has received investment from Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital for its new Linux-based operating system designed to run like Google would run its own cloud infrastructure. Terms of the deal were not disclosed but CEO...
Oct 9, 2013 | India, News, South & Central Asia
Oct 9 (Reuters) – India is a giant country with a giant population, so it’s no surprise that it’s also the home of a giant e-commerce company backed by a giant amount of venture capital. Flipkart, the “Amazon of India,” has raised $160 million, bringing its...
Oct 7, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News Former executives of Finam Global, the venture arm of leading Russian financial group Finam, have launched a $30 million high-tech fund to invest in “fast-growing markets of considerable size.” Christened ‘Flint Capital,’ the fund...
Sep 26, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
TechCrunch Sept 26 A spot of consolidation in the Russian online health services space today. Health advice portal VitaPortal, which raised a $2 million Series A last October from Prostor Capital and Esther Dyson, has merged with ZdorovieOnline.ru, a smaller medical...
