Consumer Web/Social Media
Andreessen Horowitz sells a third of its Facebook shares
Andreesen Horowitz, the venture-capital firm Marc Andreesen, sold 2.28 million of its Facebook shares.
Tech companies answer to trading season lull - report
Consumer web companies had been filling the IPO lull typically experienced during the holiday season, said Reuters.
Investor hype does not spell long-term success for Twitter - report
A Forbes contributing article by an economist said Twitter's massive hype could not save itself from faring better on the stock market in the long-run.
NYSE now leading tech IPO listing race against NASDAQ
Since the Facebook bungle, Nasdaq had been hard pressed to recover to list more tech IPO stocks in its fold.
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In preparation for its 2014 IPO, Box had appointed banks to manage the share sale and market debut. Another one of Silicon Valley's highly anticipated IPO issues is data storage company Box.
Estonia revealed its plan to raise a new fund of EUR60 million for the development of a second Skype.
Path reportedly received additional funding at more than USD7 million amid departures of its team members.
Oktopost closed USD800,000 seed round to bridge social media marketing and business-to-business (B2B) masses.
News aggregator closed USD1.8 million in a Series A financing round led by Advance Publications. News aggregate startup Newsle secured USD1. 8 million in Series A funding this week.
Lime&Tonic raises EUR1.0 million in angel investments for its funding round. Digital concierge service provider Lime&Tonic announced the closure of its Angel round of funding.
Coresytems raises USD15.5 million in its Series A funding round. Mobile cloud field service firm Coresystems recently announced the receipt of pledges amounting to CHF14 million or USD15.
The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported on Thursday. The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported on Thursday.
Twitter Inc soared as much as 92 percent in its first day of trading on Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange as investors snapped up shares in the popular microblogging site in a frenzy that recalled the days of the dot-com bubble.
Artists' social community DeviantART raised a new round of funding amounting to USD10 million from Autodesk.