Cornerstone OnDemand announced the launch of the Cornerstone Innovation Fund that will invest in cloud startups to develop innovative solutions for organizations seeking to enhance their talent management strategies.
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Formerly-called YouSendIt file-sharing services nabs USD34 million in Series E investment
Hightail, which was formerly known to many as the file-sharing service name YouSendIt, has raised a total of USD83 million after it nabbed USD34 million in new funding from an investment round led by Western Digital.
Rubikloud Technologies Inc closes seed financing round with more than USD 1 million
Li Ka-shing's Horizons Ventures, MaRS Investment Accelerator fund and private angel investors provided more than USD 1 million in seed funds for Toronto-based big data startup Rubikloud Technologies Inc.
Anonymous hackers breached US government websites - FBI
US investigators assigned to the hacking incidents done by Anonymous have yet to determine the scope of the cyber campaign of the hacker collective on the state's government agencies.
Investors pour seed funding to MovieLala
Jim Moloshok, Larry Braitman and Adam Nash provided seed funding to MovieLala, a social network and movie marketing platform that connects moviegoers, studios and stars.
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The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported on Wednesday including BNP Paribas, Facebook, Crocs, VTB Capital and Flybe Group.
Mustbin allows users to store photos of importance like pictures of documents, forms and receipts on the cloud via a smartphone, and the startup who created the app planned to use the seed investment to create an app version for Android and the iPad.
qodeo would be launching its cloud based service providing information as to VC/PE firms, pension and sovereign funds and user driven data for both business and academic purposes.
Los Angeles-based startup Ninja Metrics raised USD2.8 million today from Tech Coast Angels and Harvard Business School to launch its predictive analytics tool Katana Analytics Engine.
KPMG launched its new USD100 million investment fund, London-based KPMG Capital, which would help identify and develop big data analytics firms all over the world.
Czech startup Futurelytics Inc closed its seed financing with USD 800,000 in a round led by Index Ventures and Credo Ventures. Futurelytics was the first Czech company to win initial funding from Seedcamp.
Accredited investors from The Williams Financial Group participated in the Series C round for Dallas-based Cleantech IT innovations firm Servergy Inc which closed with USD 20 million.
The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported on Monday. The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported on Monday.
Bitcasa Inc., a cloud storage company based in California, raised USD11 million in its venture round funding. Bitcasa has raised USD19.5 million since it's launch in September 2011.
