Logistics Company aCommerce Raises $10.7M Series A To Serve Southeast Asia’s Booming E-Commerce Market
TechCrunch June 9, 2014 aCommerce, a regional end-to-end e-commerce logistics and service provider for Southeast Asia, has closed a Series A funding round of $10.7 million. According to the company, this is the largest Series A for a Thailand-based startup and one of...
Apple Acquires Spotsetter, A Social Search Engine For Places
TechCrunch Spotsetter, a social search engine using big data to offer personalized recommendations as to places to go, has been quietly snapped up by Apple, TechCrunch has learned. The technology, which involves layering social data on top of a maps interface could be...
Dropbox Acquires Stealth Messaging Startup Droptalk
TechCrunch June 5, 2014 Dropbox has swallowed up another early stage startup, this one a stealthy company called Droptalk which was developing a tool that allowed you to share links privately with friends via a Chrome extension, to be followed by both iOS and Android...
Chris Boardman sells cycle business to Halfords for £20m
Telegraph Bikes and car parts firm Halfords buys Boardman Bikes in deal to expand the brand. Tour de France racing cyclist Chris Boardman and his business partners have received a pay day of around £20m from Halfords for the sale of the bicycle brand he created. Mr...