Venture capitalist Jamie McCourt grants $25K to UNICEF

Venture capitalist Jamie McCourt gave a $25,000 grant to UNICEF to support this year's UNICEF Ball fund campaign. McCourt, who owns Jamie Enterprises, gave the grant late last month.


Accel Partners adds Eric Wolford as venture partner

Eric Wolford has been added as a venture partner of Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Accel Partners. Wolford also sits on the board of BitTorrent and Jut.

Argentina to impose online purchase restrictions

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.

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt warns technological advances could endanger jobs

Eric Schmidt, the Executive Chairman of search giant Google, has warned that technological advances could eliminate a wide variety of jobs, the Financial Times reported.


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Cascadia Capital, a diversified, boutique investment bank today announced its Consumer Practice advised Zuke's, LLC (d/b/a Zuke's) on its sale to Nestlé Purina PetCare Company, a subsidiary of Nestlé S.A. which closed in late 2013.
According to Preqin, the number of new private equity companies introduced globally last year was at its lowest level in over a decade and a half, The Wall Street Journal blog Private Equity Beat reported.
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.
Qualcomm has announced that it had acquired 2,400 patents from Hewlett-Packard, including the patents from Palm which HP had bought in 2010 in a deal worth $1.2 billion, Gigaom reported.
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.
Middle market private equity firms that invest in small and middle-sized companies have a good reason to be bullish as growth is strong in the sector, CNBC reported.
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.
Fitmob, the fitness startup founded by Raj Kapoor and Paul Twohey, has just obtained financing worth $9.75 million to redefine the workout experience, TechCrunch reported.
Cohera Medical Inc, developer of TissuGlu Surgical Adhesive and Sylys Surgical Sealant, received added financing worth $9.3 million to bring its Series D funding total to $26.3 million.