Boston-based email productivity startup Yesware made its first acquisition by buying troubled San-Francisco based email file sharing startup Attachments.me, which would also be shutting down today.
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Payments platform Spreedly raises additional USD500,000 in seed funding
North Carolina-based payments platform Spreedly secured an additional USD500,000 in seed funding from Belgian angel investors group Emerge.be to be used for product development and hiring of additional staff.
IPO candidate King reveals 500 million Candy Crush downloads
IPO candidate British game maker King revealed its Candy Crush Saga title has been downloaded over half a billion times and played over 150 billion times to date.
TinyCo lands USD20 million in funding for game development
San Francisco-based mobile gaming powerhouse TinyCo landed USD20 million in a funding round from Pinnacle Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, to be used for the development of its iOs and Android games.
Social messaging startup Jongla racks up EUR1.4 million in funding
Finland-based mobile social messaging startup Jongla recently raised EUR1.4 million in a funding round from Oy Ingman Finance to be used for the development of its youth-oriented messaging app.
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Singapore-based Bitcoin exchange startup itBit secured USD3.25 million in a new funding round to be used for the launching of its Bitcoin exchange currency and the expansion of its operations worldwide.
Vox Media bought the Curbed network for USD20 million to USD30 million using a combination of stock and cash.
Espresso Logic raised USD1.6 million today as seed funding to make mobile APIs using data logic from reactive programming.
News aggregator closed USD1.8 million in a Series A financing round led by Advance Publications. News aggregate startup Newsle secured USD1. 8 million in Series A funding this week.
Google Ventures added two new investors, Shanna Tellerman and Dave Munichiello, in its roster. Google Ventures welcomed Shanna Tellerman and Dave Munichiello, its two new investment partners, to its ranks.
TV discovery startup i.TV has bought the newly funded GetGlue as a companion TV app. The Utah-based TV discovery startup i. TV had recently acquired GetGlue as a second-screen app mashup, according to a report by TechCrunch.
AOL would lay off half of the personnel in its local news sites unit Patch as well as shutter of consolidate approximately 150 of its 900 websites.
