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.
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California-based virtual gaming startup Cloud Party to close down after being acquired by Yahoo
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.
US-based firm STOPit launches app to fight cyberbullying
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.
Google's reliability team was on Reddit's AMA when Gmail went down
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.
Gmail and Google+ hit with widespread 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.
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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.
Herman Gref, the Chief Executive of state-run Russian bank OAO Sberbank, has called on the Kremlin to prevent restrictions to the Bitcoin as lawmakers consider curbs, Bloomberg reported.
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.
The investment fund Endless is mulling a sale of specialist bathroom retailer Bathstore which it acquired from plumbing group Wolseley in 2012, Sky News reported.
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.
