Private equity-backed Netchemia, which provides cloud-based talent management software solutions, has acquired online recruiting and application management company SchoolSpring for an undisclosed amount, VentureBeat reported.
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California cloud marketing startup Ensighten purchases London tag management firm TagMan
Cupertino, US-based cloud marketing startup Ensighten purchased London, UK-based tag management firm TagMan for an undisclosed sum to gain traction over its bigger rivals in the website marketing sector.
Follow on investment brings UK-based Invenias' Series A round to $2M
With follow-on investment led by MMC Ventures, the Series A round for UK-based Invenias has now secured $2 million from the $1.5 million it raised in July, TechCrunch reported.
SaaS firm Heyo closes Series A round with $2M
Heyo, software-as-a-service firm that provides a social media marketing tool for small businesses, has raised $2 million for its Series A round, a statement about the funding said.
New York's Reonomy nabs $3.7M in Series A funding to simplify commercial real estate property research
New York, US-based commercial real estate (CRE) property research platform Reonomy nabbed $3.7 million in its Series A funding round led by SoftBank to simplify the process of gathering CRE data.
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Bedford, US-based SQL database startup VoltDB raised $8 million in a Series B funding round led by an unnamed investor from Silicon Valley to scale databases both up and out.
San Francisco, US-based cloud storage giant Dropbox acquired Cambridge, Massachusetts-based stealthy workplace chat solution Zulip for an undisclosed amount to integrate its services into its product offering.
After 14 years of service in Microsoft, Xbox Chief Product Officer Marc Whitten will be departing and heading over to Sonos to take the same position for an unspecified reason.
Mt. Gox has brought back its login screen so that users can check their Bitcoin balances. However, it's still not certain when the digital currency platform will allow users to access their digital money, TechCrunch reported.
San Francisco's Kontangent+PlayHaven rebrand as Upsight to integrate game analytics and monetization
San Francisco, US-based firm Kontangent+PlayHaven, a company that resulted from a merger three months ago, is rebranding as Upsight to create a single platform that integrates both game analytics and monetization.
Berkeley, US-based machine learning startup Wise.io pocketed $2.5 million in its first round of funding which was led by Voyager Capital to let its clients build machine learning models for customer behavior analytics.
San Francisco, US-based Flash game development and monetization platfrom Mochi Media will shut down on March 31, 2013 as it no longer has a solid future with Flash games.
San Francisco, US-based on-demand transportation app Uber is gearing up for a soft launch in Boulder, Colorado amid the controversies regarding regulations and accidents that it is currently facing.
Warren Buffet said Bitcoins were a "mirage" and that investors should "stay away" from it, VentureBeat reported citing the investor's comments on CNBC's "Squawk Box."
