Pune, India-based software services firm Persistent Systems used its venture capital fund to invest an undisclosed amount in California, US-based hand hygiene solutions startup Hyginex for its international expansion.
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UK-based PayasUgym secures £1.6 million more in new funding round
UK-based PayasUgym has obtained £1.6 million in a new round led by Albion Ventures, MMC Ventures and other angel investors, bringing to £3.5 million its funding total to date, TechCrunch reported.
WestTech Ventures launches tech incubator Project Flying Elephant in Berlin
Masoud Kamali and Alexander Kölpin, Founders of WestTech Ventures, have introduced Project Flying Elephant, their incubator in Berlin that will focus on deep tech startups, VentureBeat reported.
Cattle-focused wearable startup Silent Herdsman secures £3M in new financing
Silent Herdsman, the startup that has developed wearable technology to determine if cattle is in heat, has bagged £3 million in new funds from an investor syndicate, TechCrunch reported.
Virtual View App secures $500K in seed funding
Virtual View App, a London-based augmented reality startup for the property market, has bagged its first external funding round of $500,000 from unnamed backers, TechCrunch reported.
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Boston, US-based enterprise data management startup Actifio scored $100 million in its Series B funding led by Tiger Global Management for its expansion with its valuation now reaching $1.1 billion.
As Microsoft pulls out support for Windows XP next month, financial firms and ATM operators are now looking to Windows 7 and Linux to power their machines, TechCrunch reported.
London, UK-based education startup Feynlabs is branching out to Miami, US to teach kids grown-up technology for programming and computer science using an accelerated learning approach.
Nokia said its $7.2 billion deal with Nokia is set to close on April and not in the first quarter of this year as was originally planned, TechCrunch reported.
Southern California households are complaining that Verizon Communications Inc is not maintaining its traditional phone lines and forcing ratepayers to switch to Voice over Internet Phones, the Los Angeles Times reported.
San Francisco, US-based online restaurant reservation service OpenTable will shut down Los Altos, California-based restaurant recommendation app Ness, which it acquired in February, on April 21.
WelVU, a startup that offers a multimedia patient engagement technology platform, raised $1.25 million from unnamed investors for its initial seed funding round, VentureBeat reported.
Denver, US-based health tech firm Welltok Inc acquired Seattle-based health app developer Mindbloom for an undisclosed amount to establish itself in the mobile health space.
Twitter has taken down its Twitter #Music from the App Store and will officially pull down the curtains on the app on April 18, VentureBeat reported.
