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Accountability Is Now Charles River CFO; New Firm Expands Services and Leadership Team

NEWTON, MA--(Marketwired - Apr 9, 2014) - Accountability Outsourcing, Inc. today announced that it is now Charles River CFO, Inc. (CRCFO), a women-owned strategic financial consulting firm focused on strategic transactions such as IPOs, mergers, acquisitions and other exits. The new firm is addressing the gap between operational CFOs and the firms that audit them.


Food startup SpoonRocket raises $10M to deliver food to San Francisco and East Bay customers in 15 minutes

Berkeley, US-based on-demand food startup SpoonRocket raised $10 million in funding from Foundation Capital and General Catalyst to deliver food to customers in San Francisco and East Bay within 15 minutes.

California's Automattic acquires New York's long-form content discovery app Longreads

San Francisco, California-based WordPress parent firm Automattic acquired New York, US-based long-form reading content discovery app Longreads for an undisclosed amount with the latter to function as it is post-acquisition.

LA-based startup Zumbox to shut down digital postal mail service

Los Angeles, US-based digital postal mail startup Zumbox announced via email that it will be shutting down its service on April 14, 2014 due to difficulty in staying above the cost of delivering the service.


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San Francisco, California-based startup Fundbox emerged from stealth mode and nabbed $17.5 million in a funding round led by Khosla Ventures to help small and medium-sized enterprises get access to cash to clear their invoices within a day.
San Francisco, US-based cloud service marketplace AppDirect nabbed $35 million in its third funding round led by Mithril Capital Management to fuel its growth campaign.
AUSTIN, TX--(Marketwired - Apr 8, 2014) - Mercom Capital Group, llc, a clean energy communications and research firm, released its funding and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) report for the solar sector in Q1 2014.
NEW YORK, NY and SHANGHAI, CHINA--(Marketwired - Apr 8, 2014) - BRIC Language Systems, shortly after entering the translation services industry, has been successful in securing a major account in PrivCo - Private Company Financial Intelligence founded by Sam Hamadeh. PrivCo has been cited thousands of times in international media for research done on IPO's such as Twitter, Weibo, and Candy Crush. First up on the radar for PrivCo, is the IPO of Chinese technology giant Alibaba.
Hospitality startup Airbnb has increased its service arm to Los Angeles through a partnership with Homejoy and Handybook, reported TechCrunch.
Massachusetts, US-based software professional training tool provider PluralSight purchased Oklahoma City-based creative software training services Digital-Tutors in a deal valued at $45 million to increase its educational content.
Quora has announced taking a bigger step into expanding its business similar offering services similar to that of Wikipedia's, reported Venture Beat.
According to Bloomberg's Billionaire Index, the selloff of technology shares caused the wealthiest men in Silicon Valley to lose USD11.5 billion.
Small businesses can now apply for fast-approved business loans following the announcement of Kabbage which has taken in USD270 million more on its credit facility, reported Venture Beat.
E-book soundtrack platform Booktrack takes in USD3 million in Series A funding, said a report from TechCrunch.
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