As part of its expansion plans in Japan and mainland China, Hong Kong-based 8 Securities managed to raise $9 million in a Series B funding round. Velocity Capital and Leitmotiv Private Equity returned as its investors.
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Patent Trolls V. Their Corporate Targets: In View of Recent Legislative, Judicial and Market Changes, Companies Have Distinct Advantages Over NPEs
In recent years, there has been much discussion in the business and legal communities about Non-Practicing Entities, a.k.a. patent trolls, and the ills and costs they can often impose on companies large and small.
FlexWage Solutions secures $3.5 million from unnamed investors
FlexWage Solutions announced it was able to secure $3.5 million in growth funding from several unidentified investment companies as well as high net-worth financial technology executives.
Haha Pinche receives $10 million in Series A funding
Haha Pinche successfully raised $10 million during its Series A funding round. Its backers include Innovation Works and Sequioa Capital. Haha Pinche is a Chinese carpooling application that connects drivers and passengers...
Additional AU$500,000 funding round helps Moneysoft to hire key personnel to drive expansion
Moneysoft reportedly secures an additional AU$500,000 in a new round of funding, bringing its total funding to AU$1.5 million. The application offers a free budget planner and money management software that allows its users to categorize and track...
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DragonWave Inc announced it was closing an underwritten public offering of units including full exercise of the over-allotment option. The net proceeds are estimated at CA$ 26.9 million. The company said it plans to use the net proceeds from the offering to strengthen its balance sheet, to fund working capital and for general corporate uses.
Israeli-company EndyMed Ltd has reached an agreement with the Chinese OHMK Medical Technology, which will acquire 47.93 million EndyMed shares (28.94 percent share capital and voting rights), for $7 million.
President Barack Obama will announce on Tuesday that U.S. businesses have committed to investing $14 billion in construction, clean energy, banking, and information technology projects across Africa, a White House official said.
Egypt plans to build a new Suez Canal alongside the existing 145-year-old historic waterway in a multi-billion dollar project aimed at expanding trade along the fastest shipping route between Europe and Asia.
Wall Street banks have found a U.S. review of their junk-rated loans to have yielded similar results to last year, easing some concern among bankers about a crackdown on one of their most lucrative businesses.
General Electric Co (GE.N) on Monday pledged to invest $2 billion in Africa by 2018 to boost infrastructure, worker skills and access to energy, an announcement timed to coincide with a U.S. summit meeting of nearly 50 African leaders.
India has dealt a potentially fatal blow to the World Trade Organization's hopes of modernizing the rules of global commerce and remaining the central forum for multilateral trade deals.
Enumeral Biomedical Holdings announced that it had completed a merger between the company and its subsidiary, Cerulean Group, Inc. Along with the news of the merger, the company also announced the conclusion of its private placement financing, which raised $21.5 million.
The California Energy Commission recently endowed a $3 million grant to Pacific Ethanol to develop a product that would act as an alternative for sorghum. Sorghum is being used as a feedstock for ethanol.
