The Board of Directors of Salesforce.com now has its 11th member in the person of General Colin Powell, a highly-accomplished four-star general in the US Army, TechCrunch reported.
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Nokia Refocus app now available for all Lumia smartphones
Helsinki, Finland-based smartphone giant Nokia now made the Nokia Refocus app available to all Lumia smartphones to allow users to take refocusable photos using their phones.
US-based domain registrar GoDaddy prepares to go public
Arizona, US-based Internet domain registrar and web hosting service GoDaddy Group Inc is preparing for an initial public offering (IPO) less than three years after it was sold for $2.25 billion, according to sources familiar with the situation.
San Francisco startup studio Expa raises $50M in funding
San Francisco, US-based startup studio Expa, which was created by Uber founder Garrett Camp, raised $50 million in funding from big-time investors to provide seed funding for startups.
Macau court finds billionaire Joseph Lau guilty of corruption
Joseph Lau, the Hong Kong billionaire tycoon Chairman and CEO of Chinese Estates Holdings, was sentenced to five years in jail for bribery and money laundering, Reuters reported.
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Social media tracking and analysis firm Synthesio bagged a $20 million Series B round from European private equity firm Idinvest Partners, a statement about the funding said.
Secret, the widely-popular anonymous social sharing app, has obtained $8.6 million in its Series A funding round from a sizable number of investors, TechCrunch reported.
Dhaka-based online grocery site ChalDal secured an undisclosed seed investment round from 500 Startups. This is the first investment in Bangladesh of the California-based accelerator, TechCrunch reported.
Belfast, Ireland-based analytics and big data firm Analytics Engines secured $1.6 million (£1 million) in a funding round led by Crescent Capital to develop its software accelerating platform and widen its market reach.
Duet Group, an alternative asset manager based in the HK, has backed two food companies in Ghana with a $50 million growth capital, a statement about the funding said.
In a first app merger in the wine sector, San Francisco, US-based wine app Hello Vino purchased wine-focused photo-sharing app Corkbin for an undisclosed amount.
Coull, a Bristol-based online video ad tech firm, has received $4 million from Paul Fraser and other existing angel investors for its latest funding round, TechCrunch reported.
Xapo has obtained a $20 million funding from Benchmark Capital, Fortress Investment Group Llc and other investors to keep Bitcoins safe and secure, TechCrunch reported.
San Francisco, US-based real-time economic data tracking platform Premise nabbed $11 million in a Series B funding round led by Social+Capital Partnership to continue tracking prices of food staples in Asia, Latin America, US, and Europe.
