PLDT Invests $445M In Rocket Internet To Develop Online Payment Services For Emerging Markets
TechCrunch Rocket Internet and Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT), a telecom operator, announced today that they have entered into a strategic partnership to develop online and mobile payment products. PLDT will invest €333 million (about $445 million)...
Fast-growing Regulated Nigerian Bank
This Bank was relicensed in December 2012, and opened March 4, 2013 as a specialized regional bank recalibrated for technology-driven efficiencies, service relationships and results. The Bank is a clean, liquid, well capitalized bank fully endorsed by the Central Bank...
Merchant Loyalty Platform Startup Spoqa Raises $3.9M To Expand In Japan
Spoqa, the Seoul-based mobile loyalty platform that won the special prize of the jury at TechCrunch Disrupt Tokyo 2011, has raised a total of $3.9 million in funding to date led by Daesung Private Equity group and Bokwang Investments to fuel its expansion in Korea and...
Europe’s Bauer Media Sets Up Fund To Invest $134M In Startups Over 10 Years
TechCrunch It’s only a few weeks since Google Ventures announced it’s setting up shop in London as a hub for investing $100 million all over Europe. Now another big fund has been unboxed by local German media firm, Bauer Media. The new fund — €100 million or circa...
Restaurant Payment App Settle Raises $1.5M To Bring Waiter-Free Service To Eastern Europe
TechCrunch August 1, 2014 There are a host of companies attempting to make settling your bill at a restaurant ‘waiter-free’, by employing a smartphone app and accompanying mobile payment and POS system. These include behemoths such as PayPal, with its ‘Pay At Table‘...
Ready-to-build Wind Energy Project in Romania with EU Subsidy
Project Overview: • The Project EOS is a ready-to-build wind park in the East of Romania with a capacity of 64 MW (32 wind towers). All required permits are secured. • The planned wind park will be equipped with Vestas V90 (change to V100 possible) turbines with an...
Germany based LED manufacturer with its own direct sales force
Our client is positioning itself in Germany as an innovator and as the only LED-manufacturer with its own direct sales network in the lighting market. The Company's existing distribution network consists of 114 sales representatives from the energy consulting...
Apple expected to buy personalized talk radio app Swell for $30 million
Apple Insider Apple may bolster its streaming media services with the addition of technology and talent from Swell, a personalized news radio application currently available for iPhone, which it is said to have bought for $30 million. Apple's alleged purchase of Swell...
Apple To Buy Swell For $30 Million, Per Report
TechCrunch In what appears to be part of a summer shopping spree, Apple is reported to be buying Swell, a radio app much like Pandora but focused on talk radio. According to Re/Code, the deal is worth approximately $30 million. Swell is a product out of Concept.io, a...
Sunstone Capital Backs Beacon Platform Kontakt.io To The Tune Of $2 Million
TechCrunch July 28, 2014 “Bluetooth Low Energy and iBeacon are the building blocks of the next wave of computing,” says Max Niederhofer of the micro-location technology that lets your smartphone trigger events based on how close you are to a Beacon transmitter. “It’s...
Wipro sets up $100-mn VC fund to invest in start-ups
Business Standard July 28, 2014 Following the footsteps of some of its global peers, India's third largest information technology (IT) services company, Wipro, has set up a venture capital (VC) fund that will look at investing in early-to-middle stage technology...
Airware Preps Launch Of Its Commercial Drone Operating System With $25M From Kleiner
TechCrunch July 23, 2014 Building a drone’s hardware and software from scratch is tough and expensive, but open source drone kits are inflexible. So to power businesses looking to customize drones for commercial uses from agriculture to industrial inspections, Airware...