TechCrunch More and more retailers are learning the importance of big data and how it can be applied to improve sales, but few have the core expertise to understand how to gather, organize, and to analyze it. To help them do so, Toronto-based startup Rubikloud has...
There’s more funding for e-commerce companies in India today, after ShopClues — a startup that led the adoption of the marketplace model in the country — closed a $100 million Series D round. Read More
XueXiBao, a homework help app, is the latest educational tech startup in China to receive funding. SoftBank China Venture Capital, an arm of the Japanese telecom giant, and returning investor GSR Ventures led a $20 million Series B in the company. Read...
Xiaomi became the world’s third largest smartphone company based on sales last year, and it also began investing in companies. Its early investments have largely been in hardware, but today it diversified into software after buying 2.98 percent of Kingsoft...
Wall Street Jounal Facebook said Thursday it has acquired video-compression company QuickFire Networks, further underscoring the social networking giant’s increasing focus on video. Quickfire, based in San Diego, says it can quickly convert video formats and allow...
TechCrunch Samba Networks (formerly Samba Mobile) has closed a £250,000 ($377,000) angel round of investment from Digicel, Mark Charkin (formerly of King.com and Bebo), and other existing angels, followed its pivot last year. The U.K. startup was founded back in 2010,...
