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| Nov 5, 2013 | Adobe predicts record breaking online shopping season | Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday will see big increases in online sales
It ay be hard to believe, but the holiday season is once again upon us.
Yes, that means that Thanksgiving is only a few weeks away, the stores are already st... |
| Oct 11, 2013 | Funding Roundup - week ending 10/11/13 | DogVacay, GreenWave, TempoDB, Dollar Shave Club, ERN, elevate DIGITAL all raised new funding
Seed stage
Diagnosia, a European source for medical drug information, raised €1 million from FFG, along with angel investors Christoph Prinz, Micha... |
| Sep 6, 2013 | Funding roundup - Week ending 9/6/13 | AppMesh, aisle411, Front Desk, BoostCTR, ZappRx, AlienVault, CommonBond, RiverMeadow, ComparaOnline
Seed Stage
Timeshare marketplace Vacatia raised $5 million in seed funding from including Spencer Rascoff, Erik Blachford, Greg Waldorf, Tho... |
| Aug 9, 2013 | Funding Roundup - week ending 8/9/2013 | Clutch, Videolicious, Just Be Friends, UrbanBound, Nestivity among those that raised funds this week
Seed Stage
Sentinel Labs, which detects cyber-security threats in real time, raised $2.5 million in seed funding from Data Collective, Gran... |
| Jul 12, 2013 | Funding Roundup - week ending 7/12/13 | FreedomPop, Silvercar, The Iconic, Instacart, Fancy, Comprehend, Collective, Umano, NanoSatisfi
Seed-Stage
ImpressPages, a web CMS with drag and drop interface, raised a €200,000 seed round from VC firm Practica Capital.
Online engagement p... |
| Jul 8, 2013 | GeoMetWatch gets $6M to more accurately predict severe weather | The perfect use-case for the new “big data” tools? Weather prediction. Most people don’t realize that it takes a highly complex web of super computing technology and infrastructure to predict the onset of something like Hurricane Sandy and ... |
| Jun 28, 2013 | Funding roundup - week ending 06/28/13 | Kony, Introhive, Honest Buildings, 1mylogin, Easy Taxi, Wego, Insightera, Invi, Metacloud, UltraSoC
Seed Stage
Storefront, an online marketplace that helps retailers find short-term spaces, raised $1.6 million from Mohr Davidow Ventures, Gr... |
| May 17, 2013 | GE Healthcare unveils soft tissue imaging technology | GE Healthcare (NYSE:GE) introduced Mavric SL, a novel magnetic resonance imaging technique intended to more accurately image soft tissue and bone in patients with joint replacements and other implants.
According to a Hospital for Special Su... |
| May 10, 2013 | Funding roundup - week ending 05/10/13 | eFuneral, Fastback Networks, CapLinked, Tapestry, and Logical Choice all raised funds this week
Seed Stage
Online end-of-life planning resource eFuneral received a $250,000 investment commitment from nonprofit venture development organizati... |
| May 3, 2013 | Funding roundup - week ending 05/03/13 | Netchemia, MyNewFinancialAdvisor, nChannel, Skytree, Alpha Payments Cloud, Ruby Ribbon raised money
(Correction: Ruby Ribbon's fundraising)
Seed-stage
Learning marketplace Curious secured $7.5 million in funding, with Redpoint investing $7 ... |
| Apr 23, 2013 | BuddyBet raises $3M to bring social betting to games | Social betting platform allows sports to challenge each other to P2P real-money bets
As online gaming continues to evolve, it is becoming clear that real money gambling is key to the future of the industry, and its ability to successfully m... |
| Mar 1, 2013 | Funding roundup - week ending 03/1/13 | Getable, Thinkful, Rabbit and Red Hot Labs among those that raised money
Seed-stage
Video chat app Rabbit raised $3.3 million in a seed round from Google Ventures, CrunchFund, and Bebo founder Michael Birch, in addition to existing angel in... |
| Feb 4, 2013 | Samsung to put $1.1 billion into fueling innovation | Two new funds, along with new Strategy and Innovation Center, to boost Samsung's American presence
It is not unusual for top tier tech companies to be heavily involved with funding new innovation. After all, that is their bread and butter, ... |
| Jan 22, 2013 | White House Announces National Day Of Civic Hacking, Asks Americans To Solve Problems With Govt Data From NASA And More | The White House wants you to hack for a better America. Today it announced the National Day Of Civic Hacking on June 1-2 where many government agencies will liberate data for citizens across the U.S. to use to build tech that helps their co... |
| Jan 14, 2013 | $2.3 Million DOE Grant Will Support MBI, Novozymes Partnership | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
MBI International, the Lansing, MI-based subsidiary of Michigan State University that helps companies scale up bio-based tech endeavors, has partnered with Novozymes to win a ... |
| Dec 13, 2012 | Khosla Ventures partners with Condoleezza Rice | Rice, along with other Bush administration officials, will advise companies on international issues
Venture capital firm Khosla Ventures has entered into a strategic partnership with consulting firm RiceHadleyGates, formed by members of the... |
| Dec 5, 2012 | Funding Daily: Prohibition ends! | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Today in history, Prohibition ended. The 18th ame... |
| Dec 5, 2012 | Funding Daily: Prohibition ends! | Today in history, Prohibition ended. The 18th amendment was repealed by the 21st and alcohol became legal again. The Prohibition era is a time characterized by gangsters and speakeasies, and the teetotalers and G-Men against them. Anyone wi... |
| Nov 28, 2012 | Funding Daily: Wacky Wednesday | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
What do family trees and mobile app discovery hav... |
| Nov 12, 2012 | ShopRunner Takes On Amazon With Local Delivery System For Online Retail Purchases | ShopRunner, a company that offers two-day shipping across a network of retailers, is debuting a new service today, PickupPoints, which allows consumers to receive packages from purchases made online at local stores in their area.
The compan... |
| Nov 7, 2012 | With Key New Hire & Acquisition, YC-Backed Loyalty Card Startup FiveStars Readies Nationwide Expansion | FiveStars, the loyalty card solution originally launched out of Y Combinator’s Winter 2011 class, and now backed by $14 million in outside funding, is announcing a key new hire in its quest to expand the business nationwide: Pat Eastburn, f... |
| Oct 30, 2012 | FlockTag’s NFC-Based (Yes, NFC) Loyalty Card System Expands: Now Reaches 60K Users Across 100 Businesses | FlockTag, a loyalty card startup built by SideCar co-founder Adrian Fortino (who has since left SideCar to focus on this project), has been quietly flying under the radar, growing its CRM solution for small businesses over the past six mont... |
| Aug 31, 2012 | Open innovation is no longer a rallying cry in healthcare — it’s a movement | It just makes sense
Karim Lakhani, an assistant professor of business at Harvard University who has focused on open-source innovation in his research, said that many of today’s problems in the life sciences lend themselves well to being sol... |
| Aug 9, 2012 | Etail Innovations Blur Line Between Physical, Online Shopping | The barrier between consumer and product is growing ever smaller, as retail stores both physical and online extend their sales into realms beyond their original spheres of influence. UK grocer Tesco’s interactive virtual grocery stores in L... |
| Jul 30, 2012 | Dell unveils big data retention solution | Dell unveils big data retention solution
Dell has unveiled a big data retention solution for consolidated, scalable storage, writes Storage Review.
The new solution combines Dell object storage with optimised RainStor database technology to... |
| Jul 20, 2012 | Viacom, DirecTV bury the hatchet, add live-streaming to devices | reader comments 20 with 20 posters participating
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| Jun 15, 2012 | Die, contracts! Prepaid mobile phone use surges | For the first time in the American mobile industry, contract customers have fallen.
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| Jun 4, 2012 | Samsung Galaxy S III To Land On Five U.S. Carriers In June, Sprint And T-Mobile Set For June 21 Launch | And here we go! Samsung announced late last night that the long-awaited Galaxy S III would hit five of the U.S.’s biggest carriers — Verizon Wireless, Sprint, T-Mobile, AT&T, and U.S. Cellular — this month.
Not long after Samsung’s init... |
| May 17, 2012 | Kayak to ride Facebook coattails to IPO | Online travel site looking to raise $150 million
With Facebook’s record-breaking $104 billion IPO Friday, which could wind up netting the company $16 billion, it appears other online companies are going to cash in on public investor enthusi... |
| May 8, 2012 | Passpoint WiFi tech promises cellphone-like handoff between hotspots | Image courtesy of John M reader comments 32 with 26 posters participating
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| May 3, 2012 | Microchip Tech bets on car chips with $939M Standard Microsystems buy | Semiconductor maker Microchip Technology will acquire smaller rival Standard Microsystems for about $939 million, a move that will help Microchip enter the car tech market, the company said Thursday.
As we noticed at January’s CES conferenc... |
| May 3, 2012 | Microchip Tech bets on car chips with $939M Standard Microsystems buy | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Semiconductor maker Microchip Technology will acq... |
| Apr 26, 2012 | HID unveils smallest RFID chips | HID unveils smallest RFID chips
HID Global has built the smallest integrated low-frequency (LF) chips ever produced for contactless ID applications, Enhanced Online News reports.
HID Global has attached an antenna to a chip surface less tha... |
| Apr 25, 2012 | Amgen mourns death of founder George Rathmann | Personnel Moves | Amgen mourns death of George Rathmann, founding CEO
Biotech giant Amgen‘s (NSDQ:AMGN) founding CEO George Rathmann died this week at the age of 84. In his final years, Rathmann was a dialysis patient who took EPO, a red blood cell stimulati... |
| Apr 13, 2012 | Meridian Bioscience signs molecular diagnostics deal with major GPO | The illumigene product line is key to Meridian’s future as more customers look to molecular diagnostics, a means of analyzing the makeup of an organism at the genetic level.
The molecular tests Meridian is selling under the deal with Premie... |
| Apr 12, 2012 | Comcast spent $250k in Q1 2011 on lobbying, mostly for SOPA, PIPA [Roundup] | Every Thursday morning at 8:30 a.m. EST, find all the stories you need to know about your friendly telecommunications giant in the Comcast Roundup. Get an email subscription for our weekly Comcast roundup or other news updates.
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| Apr 12, 2012 | Medtronic lands Canadian win for epilepsy therapy with brain stim | Regulatory Roundup | Medtronic lands Health Canada win for deep brain stimulation for epileptics
OptiMedica touts CE Mark for Catalys precision cornea laser system
SynCardia wins Humanitarian Use Device designation for permanent total artificial heart
Masimo re... |
| Apr 10, 2012 | Advertisers get mobile exchange service | Advertisers get mobile exchange service
Samsung Electronics has signed a partnership deal with digital advertising company OpenX Technologies to roll out a mobile exchange service for advertisers, SunHerald.com reports.
The Samsung AdHub Ma... |
| Mar 29, 2012 | Four-hour disaster recovery service from EVault | Four-hour disaster recovery service from EVault
Cloud-based backup and recovery innovator EVault has unveiled a four-hour option for its EVault Cloud Disaster Recovery Service (EVault CDR), Channelpro reports.
EVault CDR is a cloud-based di... |
| Feb 28, 2012 | Ticketleap raises $490,000 [VC roundup] | Welcome to the VC Roundup, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to pa... |
| Feb 23, 2012 | Next-gen WiFi hotspots to feature no-password login with phone SIM card | reader comments 28 with 22 posters participating, including story author
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| Feb 22, 2012 | Mozilla announces Web app store a la Chrome | Next week, at the GSMA Mobile World Congress, Mozilla will be launching its own app store for HTML5 web apps, called the Mozilla Marketplace, much like Google did with the Chrome app store that launched worldwide just under one year ago.
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| Feb 22, 2012 | Infuse EU competitor working toward U.S. clearance for bone growth putty | The i-Factor combines proprietary anorganic bone mineral and a synthetic small peptide, P-15, to act as an attachment factor to stimulate natural bone healing. Already being used in thousands of spine, trauma and orthopedic surgeries in Eur... |
| Feb 6, 2012 | Super Bowl regions also gaining ground on ACOs (Morning Read) | The downside of iPads in hospitals. In a recent survey, 74 out of 100 health IT managers said that the use of tablets in healthcare present challenges for data entry, and two-thirds said that providing technical support on these consumer de... |
| Feb 3, 2012 | Super Bowl XLVI ushers in mobile-viewing era in sports | SecondScreen companies want you to be on your mobile devices when watching Super Bowl ads
Just as the Nixon-Kennedy debates ushered in the marriage between TV and politics, there is a dash to bring mobile interaction into TV commercials -- ... |
| Nov 30, 2011 | 100Plus Raises $1.25M From Greylock and Band Of Angels To Make You Live Longer | Less than a month after securing $500K from Founders Fund, health prediction service 100Plus has brought its funding up to $1.25 million. The new $750K in funding comes from Reid Hoffman and John Lilly via Greylock Partners’ Discovery Fund,... |
| Nov 21, 2011 | The Big Data Bottleneck In The Consumer Web | Editor’s note: TechCrunch contributor Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer Internet, and social networks. Shah is based in Palo Alto and you can follow him on twitter @semil
Earlier in the year, I wrote an opi... |
| Nov 14, 2011 | MedicaMetrix lands “fast-lane” grant | Funding Roundup | Urology diagnostics maker MedicaMetrix Inc. landed a $66,950 grant under the Medical Device Development Center’s "fast-lane" program to continue the development of its ProstaGlove for low cost detection of prostate cancer.
The gra... |
| Oct 20, 2011 | Motorola’s rugged Admiral Android smartphone will retail for $99 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Motorola’s Admiral, the phone maker’s latest Android smartphone, will start selling next week for $99 with a Sprint contract.
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| Oct 20, 2011 | Motorola Admiral Hits Sprint On October 23 With $100 Price Tag | Move over, Kyocera DuraMax — Sprint has just officially announced the Motorola Admiral, the first Android smartphone in their growing Direct Connect lineup.
The Admiral takes a 1.2GHz processor, 4GB of internal storage, and 3G hotspot suppo... |
| Oct 20, 2011 | Motorola’s rugged Admiral Android smartphone will retail for $99 | Motorola’s Admiral, the phone maker’s latest Android smartphone, will start selling next week for $99 with a Sprint contract.
In the under-$100 price range, we’re accustomed to seeing flimsy, teeny-bopper touchscreens, but this bad boy seem... |
| Oct 20, 2011 | Nuxeo takes ECM to the cloud | Nuxeo takes ECM to the cloud
Open source enterprise content management (ECM) provider, Nuxeo has released a content management platform in the cloud, Enhanced Online News reports.
With Nuxeo Cloud, solution and information architects can bu... |
| Oct 11, 2011 | Facebook isn't going to dominate social gaming | SuperData Research claims non-Facebook social gaming will dominate the market into 2014
Facebook may dominate our online social lives, and may appear to be the be-all end-all, but it likely won't take the lion's share of the money generated... |
| Sep 27, 2011 | Disney’s Appmates Turn The iPad Into An Interactive Playmat | I wasn’t much for playing with toy cars as a kid — you’d have found me parked in front of a Sega Genesis, if anything — but I suspect Disney Mobile’s new line of Appmate iPad peripherals would have been just the thing to change my mind.
The... |
| Sep 6, 2011 | Sprint Joins Antitrust Fight with New Lawsuit Against AT&T’s T-Mobile Bid | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated at 3:30 pm Pacific with details, AT&T response]
Sprint (NYSE: S) was already cheering the federal government’s antitrust lawsuit against competitor AT&T’s $39... |
| Aug 25, 2011 | Cleveland Clinic researcher gets $1.1M grant for lupus study | Nine out of 10 people with lupus are female, a disparity that scientists have thus far been unable to explain, according to a statement from the Clinic.
Jorgensen’s research will explore the role a set of immune system-suppressing cells pla... |
| Aug 23, 2011 | Diabetes pump maker rounds up $12 million while device undergoes FDA review | Funding Roundup | Tandem Diabetes Care Inc. raised $12 million of a $13.7 million funding round spread across eight investors.
Meanwhile, its flagship t:slim insulin pump is under 510(k) review with the FDA as an option for people with Type I diabetes, accor... |
| Aug 22, 2011 | NextDocs raises $10.3 Million Series A from OpenView Venture Partners | King of Prussia’s NextDocs, which helps life science companies though the compliance processes, has raised a hefty $10.3 Million Series A round, according to a press release. We spoke with NextDocs CEO Zikria Syed last week about the compan... |
| Aug 18, 2011 | What you need to know - 08/18/11 | Amazon is the undisputed king of retail; Zynga may have snapped up a New York game studio
Amazon is the indomitable king of retail—both online and off. One in five Internet users worldwide visited an Amazon site in the month of June, making... |
| Aug 18, 2011 | Birchbox secures $10.5M for beauty samples mailing | Members subscribe for $10 per month and receive four to five samples each month
Birchbox, a startup that delivers beauty samples to paying subscribers, announced Thursday that it has closed $10.5 million in Series A funding led by Accel Par... |
| Aug 15, 2011 | NextDocs CEO Zikria Syed: ‘rapid growth’ in a niche life sciences market from King of Prussia | Beyond the bubble, a technology company of stability and promise is probably solving an old problem with new solutions.
Zikria Syed
And that’s how Zikria Syed describes his King of Prussia-based company NextDocs, a Microsoft SharePoint-base... |
| Aug 9, 2011 | Monetate raises $15 million from OpenView Venture Partners | Welcome to the VC Roundup, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to pa... |
| Aug 9, 2011 | Ignition Leads $10M in Apprenda | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Bellevue, WA’s Ignition Partners continues its string of cloud computing investments since bringing on longtime software entrepreneur and executive Frank Artale. Today, the ve... |
| Aug 3, 2011 | $20M for Leyden Energy | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Fremont, CA-based Leyden Energy, which is developing longer-lasting lithium ion batteries for consumer mobile devices, electric vehicles, and energy storage, said today that i... |
| Aug 3, 2011 | TakeLessons raises $6 million for music lessons | Find music instructors for any instrument on this platform (they have awesome customer service too)
TakeLessons, a local music lessons marketplace, announced Wednesday that it has raised $6 million in funding led by Crosslink Capital, with ... |
| Aug 3, 2011 | $17M for Inkling for iPad Textbooks | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Inkling, a San Francisco startup adapting college textbooks for the iPad, said today that it has raised $17 million in Series B financing. Tenaya Capital led the round, which ... |
| Jul 29, 2011 | Funding roundup - week ending 07/29/11 | Two seed-stage, three late-stage and a whole lot of early-stage deals this week
Seed-stage
LucidChart, a Web-based diagramming application with real-time collaboration features, raised $1 million in seed financing from 500 Startups and othe... |
| Jul 27, 2011 | What you need to know - 07/27/11 | Amazon market cap surpasses $100 billion; Jumio jump-starts credit card purchasing via webcam
AHAlife.com, an editorialized commerce platform for curated lifestyle products, raised $6 million in new funding led by DCM with existing investor... |
| Jul 27, 2011 | Zynga brings CityVille to China without Facebook | Renamed Zynga City, the most popular Facebook app ever seeks wider audiences
As the publisher tries to tighten its grip, the developer seeks wider, freer pastures.
Zynga is bringing CityVille, the most popular application on Facebook, to Ch... |
| Jul 19, 2011 | First Round Capital gets healthy | Welcome to the VC Roundup, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to pa... |
| Jul 15, 2011 | Funding roundup - week ending 07/15/11 | Two seed startups working on health records, two early-stage AngelPad grads and a ton of mobile
Seed-stage
San Francisco-based Astrid raised a seed round of funding, led by Google Ventures and Nexus Venture Partners. Individual investors, s... |
| Jul 14, 2011 | What you need to know - 07/14/11 | Hear lessons learned from DoubleClick founder; Netflix customers are pissed
Apica, a load testing and performance-monitoring provider for cloud and mobile applications, closed a $2 million Series B round of financing. Industrifonden led the... |
| Jul 12, 2011 | Cloudflare, Ignite, Zettaset, Karma: A Mid-Week Funding Roundup | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Usually, stories about venture funding rounds go straight into the “News Xpress” section of Xconomy. But once in a while there’s a day with so many funding announcements that ... |
| Jul 1, 2011 | Diabetes device maker Mendor raises $11.7 million | Funding Roundup | Mendor, a Finish diabetes technologies and services company, raised $11.7 million in a Series B financing round, aiming for global expansion.
Funding was led by Finnish entrepreneur and investor Risto Siilasmaa, joined by Life Sciences Part... |
| Jun 29, 2011 | Cardiovascular imaging device maker secures $24.1 million | The company said LipiScan IVUS is the first and only CE Mark approved product to pair NIR spectroscopy and IVUS technology into one system.
Proceeds from the financing will go to expanding manufacturing operations and commercial infrastruct... |
| Jun 28, 2011 | Coronary imaging system lands $24.1 million in equity funding | InfraReDx Inc. closed a $24.1 million equity funding round boosted by 42 existing shareholders.
The Burlington, Mass.-based company develops the LipiScan IVUS device, which employs both so-called “near-infrared” (NIR) spectroscopy and intra... |
| Jun 24, 2011 | Funding roundup - week ending 06/24/11 | Foursquare secures $50 million for location and Glympse gets a $7.5 million Series B for... location
Seed-stage
myGengo, provider of translation services and an API, raised $1 million in seed funding from Point Nine, Mitch Kapor and Wencesl... |
| Jun 21, 2011 | KeyOn jumps into VOIP services market | KeyOn jumps into VOIP services market
Wireless broadband provider KeyOn Communications has jumped into the $50 billion voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) services market, with the acquisition of VOIP provider CommX, reports Fierce VOIP.
De... |
| Jun 21, 2011 | What you need to know - 06/21/11 | Foursquare now has 10 million members; Groupon responds to media hazing
Caterina Fake, co-founder of Hunch and Flickr, is working on a new startup, code-named 2bkco.
Cloud9 IDE,a cloud-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Web ... |
| Jun 13, 2011 | What you need to know - 06/13/11 | Facebook growth slows as it nears 700 million users; to buy or to not buy Groupon stock?
Google's potential $400 million acquisition of AdMeld would boost the tech giant's display advertising arsenal, and here's why.
Bunchball, provider of ... |
| Jun 6, 2011 | Sprint launching HTC EVO 3D and EVO View tablet June 24 | If you can’t get enough 3D in your visual diet, Sprint has the phone for you. Sprint on Monday announced a June 24 launch date for the HTC EVO 3D, the first U.S. smartphone with a “glasses-free” 3D screen and the ability to shoot 3D picture... |
| Jun 2, 2011 | Upset by Twitter, UberMedia raises $5 million | Owner of UberSocial, Echofon and Twidroyd couldn't quite snatch up TweetDeck, but it's moving on
UberMedia, an independent provider of apps for Twitter and other social media tools, announced Thursday that Burda Digital through DLD Ventures... |
| Jun 1, 2011 | Trinity Leads $10M Investment in Act-On Software, Helping Oregon-Based Digital Marketing Company Fuel International Growth | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 4:45 pm to correct headline, copy reflecting Trinity as lead investor. Previous information provided by company spokesperson was incorrect.] Well, that was quick. Act... |
| May 25, 2011 | BlueStacks Exits Stealth, Collects $7.6M | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
After three years in stealth mode, San Francisco-based BlueStacks debuted today with an announcement that it has collected $7.6 million in Series A funding from Andreessen Hor... |
| May 24, 2011 | Intel Capital Unveils $24.5M in Investments | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Intel Capital, the venture investing wing of the giant Santa Clara, CA-based chipmaker Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), announced yesterday at an event in New York that it has invested $... |
| May 24, 2011 | $3.7M for Revel Systems | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
San Francisco startup Revel Systems, which has developed an iPad-based point-of-sale system to help restaurants track sales, said today that it has raised $3.7 million in a fu... |
| May 24, 2011 | Tryton poaches new CEO from AngioDynamics | Personnel Moves | Shawn McCarthy traded his vice president role at AngioDynamics Inc. (NSDQ:ANGO) for the corner office at Tryton Medical Inc., assuming the president and CEO spot at the Durham, N.C.-based stent maker.
McCarthy was senior vice president and ... |
| May 23, 2011 | Crowdstar raises first round, led by Intel | First round of capital for profitable social gaming startup: ready to overtake EA, Zynga next?
Intel Capital announced Monday that it has invested in social and mobile gaming studio Crowdstar. The venture arm actually invested a total of $2... |
| May 19, 2011 | Medical device firm Tryton hires new CEO from AngioDynamics | AngioDynamics reported $12.3 million in net income on $216 million in fiscal 2010 revenue from sales of medical products in applications including vascular, oncology and renal treatments. Tryton is a much smaller operation by comparison wit... |
| May 17, 2011 | Cleveland Clinic spinoff ART to reveal secrets of its bioresorbable stent | ART’s stents were co-developed by Fred Cornhill, former chairman of Cleveland Clinic’s department of biomedical engineering, who worked with researchers at two French institutions to develop the device. Cleveland Clinic maintains an equity ... |
| May 16, 2011 | Roambi Flow turns your business information into gorgeous iPad reports | After revolutionizing the way companies can interact with their business data on the go with its Roambi app, San Diego-based startup Mellmo is now aiming to let you use that data to create gorgeous interactive reports and presentations with... |
| May 2, 2011 | What you need to know - 05/02/11 | Osama's death announced first via Twitter; Facebook could earn $2 billion this year
Dish Network named Michael Kelly president of its new subsidiary, Blockbuster.
Facebook is on track to surpass $2 billion in earnings before interest, taxes... |
| Apr 1, 2011 | Funding roundup - week ending 04/01/11 | No April Fool's jokes here, just good old funding for up and coming startups
Early-stage
Apperian, provider of mobile application management solutions, closed a $9.5 million round of venture financing, with investments from North Bridge Ven... |
| Mar 28, 2011 | What you need to know - 03/28/11 | Google goes group messaging with Disco; Apple iOS 5 delayed to the fall for iPod's 10th birthday?
Aerohive Networks, provider of controller-less Wi-Fi and cloud-enabled networking, raised an additional Series D round of $25 million in finan... |
| Mar 18, 2011 | Illume Gets $2.4M to Stop Distracted Drivers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Needham, MA-based Illume Software, maker of the iZUP mobile app, announced it has raised $2.4 million in new financing from the Massachusetts Technology Development Corp. and ... |
| Mar 3, 2011 | On the GreenBeat: Nexterra bags $15M for biomass power, Johnson Controls make $32.3M smart grid buy | Here’s the latest action we’re following today on the GreenBeat:
Nexterra Systems raises $15M for biomass power — The Candian company raised the cash from ARC financial and Tandem Expansion Fund. It makes small-scale biomass gasification sy... |
| Feb 25, 2011 | Medtronic buys gel with sinus surgery prospects | The world’s largest medical device maker bought the rights to a technology that it hopes can one day develop products for functional endoscopic sinus surgery.
Minneapolis-based Medtronic Inc. (NYSE:MDT) said that the so-called chitosan-dext... |
| Feb 21, 2011 | InVivo taps Phil Pereira to head manufacturing | Personnel moves | InVivo Therapeutics Holdings Corp. (OTC:NVIV) pushed forward on the development of its manufacturing capabilities with the appointment of biomedical engineer Phil Pereira.
As the company’s new director of manufacturing, Pereira will be resp... |
| Feb 15, 2011 | NanoString Names VPs | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
NanoString Technologies, the Seattle-based maker of a genetic analysis instrument, said today it has hired two new vice presidents to fill out its commercial management team. ... |