May 30, 2013 | Global, News
Forbes 23 May 2013 Let me take a stab at some perhaps less obvious things to know about M&A (from the perspective of a start-up founder at least): Companies don’t buy start-ups. People do — CEOs and SVPs. There are 1,000 companies Google GOOG -1.24% or Apple AAPL...
May 29, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, MENA, News, Russia
Leading Russian Internet group Mail.Ru Group announced yesterday that it has poured $1.5 million into the Israeli visual search developer Cortica. The funding is part of a larger round led by other undisclosed investors; it brings the total amount attracted by Cortica...
May 29, 2013 | Asia, China, East Asia, News, North America
Marketwired.com 28 May 2013 REDWOOD CITY, CA XcelMobility, Inc., a leading developer of mobile internet products and services, announced today that it has acquired the video encoding and compression group of Shenzhen Jifu Communication Technology, a professional...
May 28, 2013 | News, Western Europe
Telegraph 23 May 2013 George Soros has put £50m into Hyperoptic, a start-up aiming to leapfrog Britain’s telecoms giants by building a fibre optic network that offers consumers internet access at least 10 times faster than currently available. The veteran investor’s...
May 28, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News Moscow-based e-learning startup YaKlass has announced that it has secured a seed funding round from Latvia’s Data Pro Group, Russia’s Vesna Investment and entrepreneur Nikita Khalyavin, CNews.ru revealed last week. The amount of the investment...
