Mountain View, California-based personal finance app Mint is integrating with San Francisco-based bitcoin wallet service Coinbase to help clients track their bitcoins along with their other financial accounts.
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Washington University professor sues Square for patent infringement
Washington University associate professor of engineering Robert Morley sued Square co-founders Jim McKelvey and Jack Dorsey for fraud and patent infringement, claiming he was wrongly left off a patent for the attachable credit card reader device.
US social games maker Zynga lays off 314 employees
San Francisco, California-based social games services provider Zynga Inc is laying off around 314 employees, or 15% of its workforce, as part of a cost reduction strategy to generate between $33 million to $35 million in savings for 2014.
Salesfusion acquires Atlanta social analytics platform LoopFuse
Atlanta, US-based marketing automation platform Salesfusion has acquired social analytics platform LoopFuse for an undisclosed amount just two weeks after the former raised $8.25 million in a Series B funding round.
New York-based analytics firm raises $3.3M in funding for self-learning platform
New York, US-based analytics firm Implisit raised $3.3 million in funding from Gemini Israel Ventures for its self-learning platform that mines CRM data to help improve sales efficiency.
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Boulder, US-based travel startup Inside.co today launched its Inside Travel Guides portal, which also has a mobile version, to help travelers feel like local citizens with day-by-day and place-by-place insider itinerary tips.
Cincinnati, US-based startup Sqrl bagged $550,000 in funding from CincyTech, Vine Street Ventures, and Hyde Park Ventures to launch a service for small and regional accounting firms that reminds their clients of the documents they need to provide for a job.
Washington, US-based tech firm Flat World, a company that aims to make more affordable digital versions of college textbooks, raised $9.5 million in a funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners.
New York, US-based social TV startup Viggle snapped up San Francisco, California-based rival Dijit Media for an undisclosed sum to acquire and incorporate the latter's NextGuide and reminder button features into its own offerings.
US-based private equity firm The Carlyle Group invested an undisclosed sum in Ireland-based chocolate maker Lily O'Brien's for the expansion of the latter's global consumer reach.
Texas, US-based tech media startup Daily Dot Media (DDM) added London, UK-based tabloid-style news site The Kernel, whose editor-in-chief is stepping down from his position, for an undisclosed sum.
US-based multinational retail chain Walmart started testing the local pick-up option for Walmart To Go, the company's online grocery shopping service with home delivery feature in Denver, Colorado.
Denver, Colorado-based online market research firm GutCheck secured $4 million in a funding round led by Icon Venture Partners to test out the potential of different business ideas.
Yahoo has closed the acquisition of San Francisco, California-based enterprise app studio Tomfoolery, and will be shutting down the latter's Anchor app, according to a source familiar with the deal.
