San Francisco, US-based online real-time restaurant reservation platform OpenTable acquired Palo Alto, California-based personalized recommendations app maker Ness Computing in a deal valued at $17.3 million.
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Former Citigroup CTO raises $1M for hardware startup Avegant on Kickstarter
Yobie Bejamin, the former Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Citigroup, raised $1 million on via crowdfunding platform Kickstarter for hardware startup Avegant's new kind of headset called Glyph.
Despite emerging market concerns, aerospace firms still betting in Asia- report
Planemakers are looking forward to inking billions of dollars in deals at an aerospace gathering in Singapore next week despite worries about the turmoil in emerging markets, Reuters reported.
Slovak startup Datamolino gets €500K in seed funding from Slovak Innovations and Technologies Fund
Datamolino, a Slovak startup processes invoices and receipts without the need for manual data entry, has received €500,000 for its seed financing round from Slovak Innovations and Technologies Fund, TechCrunch reported.
Y Combinator-backed Bloomthat gets $2M in seed round
Bloomthat, a flower delivery startup based in San Francisco, pulled in seed funding from investors that included SV Angel and Ashton Kutcher amounting to $2 million, TechCrunch reported.
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Y Combinator, SV Angel, Max Levchin and other investors provided seed funds amounting to $2 million to San Francisco, California-based "pre-commerce" platform Celery to help grow the team and develop its storefront features.
Teqcycle Solutions, a Munich-based firm that provides mobile devices trade-in and reuse solutions, has bagged an undisclosed investment from T-Venture Holding, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom.
A fintech incubator has just been rolled out by pan-European accelerator Startupbootcamp in London. The FinTech bootcamp is backed by big names that include Lloyds, Rabobank and MasterCard, TechCrunch reported.
Birdback, a London-based fintech startup, has obtained $2.4 million in its funding round led by Passion Capital and joined in by Paul Nikkel, Luke Johnson, Playfair Capital and #1seed, TechCrunch reported.
Indian fashion portal confirms $50M capital injection from Premji Invest and rejects Flipkart merger
Bangalore, India-based fashion portal Myntra confirmed that it raised $50 million in a new funding round led by Premji Invest, and decided not to pursue a merger with Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart.
Mutual funds managed by the biggest names in Wall Street like BlackRock, Brevan Howard and T. Rowe Price, are showing poor performance with the decline in the emerging markets, an analysis from Reuters said.
Sussex, Wisconsin-based commercial printing firm Quad/Graphics Inc bought Boston-based family-owned printing business UniGraphic Inc for an undisclosed amount as part of its expansion strategy via acquisitions.
London, UK-based engineering and support services firm Babcock International Group added Oman-based oil and gas training organization National Training Institute (NTI) for an undisclosed sum to extend the latter's training services to the UK.
Japan-based Sumitomo Corp agreed to acquire Australia-based Emerald Agribusiness Group Pty. The purchase allowed the Japanese trading firm to control the storage facilities and export terminal of Emerald, Bloomberg reported.
