For the past 18 months, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Africa bagged $10 million in investment from London, UK-based non-profit business development organization African Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (AVCA).
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Indian startup InMobi now rivals Apple and Google in mobile ad space- report
InMobi has only been in business for less than a decade but it has already proven to be a worthy contender to tech giants in the mobile ad space, Voice & Data reported.
Israeli venture capital platfrom OurCrowd eyes investment in Australian startups
Jerusalem, Israel-based venture capital funding platform OurCrowd is looking to invest in Australia-based startups amid a 4% drop in the country's pool of venture capital.
Still meager private equity investments in Middle East markets- report
The Middle East private equity market looked promising in the past decade but investments have trickled in the past year according to Dealogic data, Financial News reported.
Irish firm Fexco to purchase English foreign exchange firm InterCash
County Kerry, Ireland-based financial services provider Fexco will UK-based foreign exchange firm InterCash for an undisclosed sum to establish the firm's position in the market as the country's economy starts growing again.
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Philippine-based real estate holding company SM Investments Corp entered an agreement to acquire a 34% stake in CityMall Commercial Center Inc for an undisclosed amount to construct a chain of community malls in Visayas and Mindanao.
In a bid to attract more startups, Walldorf, Germany-based sofware giant SAP planned to open a cafe in Palo Alto, California, where startups companies can hang out, collaborate, and connect to over 1,000 companies worldwide.
With the most recent breach of Kickstarter that compromised the data of its users, the crowdfunding industry should strive for more caution this time, Entrepreneur reported.
Y Combinator is proof that companies don't always need to hold fancy launches. A low-key "launch day" such as the one Y Combinator had in 2005 can also spell long-term success, TechCrunch reported.
Bitstamp and BTC-E paused Bitcoin withdrawal from their exchanges starting last week because of a potential glitch but have already resumed withdrawals while Mt Gox, the biggest Bitcoin exchange, still remains closed until now.
The single largest stock holding of Soros Fund Management in the fourth quarter is Israeli drugmaker Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd, Reuters reported citing a February 14 filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
At the O'Reilly Media's Strata big data conference, four venture capitalists revealed the types of startups and the projects they would be willing to put their money on.
Kickstarter, the fundraising platform used by millions of people to raise capital for creative projects and businesses, said on Saturday that hackers had gained access to some of its customers' data earlier this week but that the breach had been repaired.
The uncertainty of the US government on what to do with the Bitcoins it has confiscated from the Silk Road raid in October last year has already cost it paper losses amounting to $31 million, The New York Post reported.
