Blue Ash, Ohio-based private equity real estate firm Viking Partners sold Indiana-based shopping center Fishers Crossing to a California-based investor in a deal valued at $4.1 million.

New York, US-based real estate services and investment firm Kennedy-Wilson Holdings Inc purchased Victory Plaza retail center and its neighboring 2.4-acre land in Los Angeles, California for a total of $30 million in debt.

Private equity investor Andrea Bonomi, the biggest investor in Milan, Italy-based banking firm Banca Popolare di Milano (Pop Milano), has offloaded his entire 8.6% stake in the bank, according to a source familiar with the matter.

After two years of operation, California, US-based virtual gaming startup Cloud Party has been acquired by Yahoo for an undisclosed amount and will shut down on February 21, 2014.

American firm STOPit launched a mobile app that functions as a tool that students, parents, and schools can use to fight cyberbullying and report an incident to school officials, authorized adults, or law enforcers.

In a funny coincidence, four engineers from Google's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team were on Reddit's Ask Me Anything (AMA) thread right before Gmail and other Google services experienced a worldwide outage.

Google just got hit with an outage that brought down Gmail, Google Plus, Google Voice, Hangouts, and other services which lasted for around 20 minutes and got resolved by 12:23 PM Pacific Time.

The co-founders of Bangalore, India-based offline search engine Innoz are seeking $500,000 in seed funding to build a rival app for Jelly which will target the US market.

UK-based recycling, renewable energy and waste management firm Viridor invested in a £25-million glass recycling facility in Scotland that will help create 300 full-time jobs in the country.

The Irish government will be offering empty buildings owned by the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) as free offices for startups under the 2014 Action Plan for Jobs.

Hamburg, Germany-based publishing group Spiegel.net has partnered with accelerator XLHealth to acquire a 25% stake in Berlin-based brain-training startup NeuroNation for an unconfirmed seven-figure sum.

Chicago, US-based startup WebCurfew created a device that helps parents monitor and control their children's online usage through an on/off switch for individual devices from their home's router.

In a bid to match Silicon Valley's success, the European Commission (EC) launched the Startup Europe Partnership tech startup accelerator and the European Digital Forum think tank at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Chicago, Illinois-based tutoring marketplace WyzAnt acquired New York-based Tutorspree, a fellow marketplace competitor, that has been closed down since September 2013, for an undisclosed amount.

San Ramon, California-based dental equipment designer and manufacturer Danville Materials LLC received an $8.5 million investment from North Carolina-based investment firm Triangle Capital Corp LLC.

Boulder, Colorado-based software startup JumpCloud bagged $3 million in venture capital in a round led by Bullet Time Ventures and Foundry Group, to fund the expansion of its software engineering and development team.

Noida, India-based e-learning company secured $9 million (INR55 crore) in a Series B funding round led by global education research firm Hobsons for future acquisitions and network expansion.

California, US-based education center and accelerator Singularity Universtity (SU) will launch a $50-million venture fund later this year for robotics, biotech, and nanotech firms formedy by SU students and faculty.

Cork, Ireland-based product development services provider PCH International acquired Toronto, Canada-based e-commerce platform ShopLocket for an undisclosed amount to provide development solutions for hardware startups.

Parents think their children actually learn more from watching television than using education apps on their mobile gadgets, according to data gathered by New York-based research firm The Joan Ganz Cooney Center.

Atlanta, Georgia-based home improvement specialty retailer Home Depot purchased Houston-based window covering seller Blinds.com for an undisclosed amount to expand the technology on its company website.

Rare Enterprises, the company of ace investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, picked up 6.85 lakh shares of India-based liquor firm Radico Khaitan via open market in a deal valued at INR11.50 crore.

San Francisco, California-based online car booking service Uber planned to venture into the Asia Pacific market and start hiring staff members across 14 cities, according to an Uber representative.

The Argentine Republic’s government is imposing a restriction on online purchases, in a bid to reduce the amount of dollars leaving the country and help lift its economy.

Oakland, California-based customer intelligence pipeline raised $450,000 in a funding round last month from Alchemist Accelerator and angel investors to spy on software customers and find out what keeps them happy.

Limerick, Ireland-based environmental software developer AMCS Group closed €23.5 million in a funding round led by Highland Capital Partners Europe (HCPE) for its expansion into Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and the Americas.

Dallas, Texas-based luxury specialty department store Neiman Marcus confirmed that 1.1 million debit and credit cards could have been compromised during a malware attack from July 16 to October 30, 2013.

Newly-launched San Francisco, California-based human-powered discovery and search parsing app Jelly raised an undisclosed amount in a Series B funding round led by Greylock Partners.

After recently closing a $7.5-million funding round, US-based Bitcoin focused investment fund CoinSeed acquired BitFury's specialized Bitcoin mining hardware for $5 million to build one of the biggest cryptocurrency mining infrastructures in the world.

Medical and recreational marijuana dispensaries in Las Vegas, US are increasingly turning to venture capitalists for seed money due to lack of loan sources, as the drug is deemed illegal by the federal government.