Online Learning Marketplace Udemy Raises $32M
TechCrunch May 8, 2014 Long time player in the online learning space, Udemy, which has built a skills-based marketplace where individual tutors can sell their skills and learners can get access to courses (both paid and free), has just closed a $32 million Series C...
European Home Cleaner Hassle.com Raises $6M From Accel
TechCrunch March 8, 2014 Down to its last £100 in November 2012, UK startup Hassle.com (then called Teddle) was at a crossroads: Exit the consumer space altogether, where it had been offering a local services marketplace, and try to flog its scheduling and CRM...
Apple Acquires Power Efficient LED Tech Company LuxVue
TechCrunch May 2, 2014 Apple has acquired LuxVue Technology, a stealthy company that had been working on micro-LED, screen technologies, we’ve heard from sources close to the transaction. The company had raised $43 million in funding from Kleiner Perkins, iD Ventures...
Google Buys Rangespan To Add Big Data Inventory Management To Google Shopping
TechCrunch May 2, 2014 Google has made another move to build out its e-commerce business, and specifically its retail portal Google Shopping. It has acquired Rangespan, a London-based provider of back office services for online retailers, using data science to help...
Netshow.me, Brazil’s Answer To StageIt, Raises Seed Round
TechCrunch May 1, 2014 Tired of ticket fees, sweaty seething masses of teeming humanity, clubs that smell of body odor and stale beer, and concerts that sell out before you can even take out your credit card? Well, if you live in Brazil, Netshow.me has a solution for...
Biomedical Development Zone – Project Development
Bio Istanbul is a biomedical development project over an area of 200 hectares (2,000,000 sqm) near Istanbul International Airport--‐ in partnership with the Turkish Government and a group of leading development executives. This ecologically responsible community will...
A Leading Turkish Air Cargo Company
The Company is based in Istanbul and is a member of a larger conglomerate. The current freighter fleet consists of 12 aircraft. The Company has increased the synergy between its airside/landside interface with its fully certified cargo warehouses and ground...
Anil Ambani, Singapore-based wine investor to buy 30 pct stake in Sula
Economic Times April 29, 2014 MUMBAI: The Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group is all set to pick up a significant minority stake in Nashik Vintners (BSE -4.91 %), the parent of India's largest winemaker Sula. Ambani is teaming up with Singapore-based wine investor Ravi...
Webrazzi, Turkey’s Main Tech Blog, Sells Minority Stake To Aslanoba Capital
TechCrunch April 22, 2014 From time to time we like to check in with the European tech blog scene to see what’s up. And there’s a significant update in the form of the news that Webrazzi, Turkey’s main tech startup news outlet, has sold 15% of its equity of Aslanoba...
Despite Big Ambitions, New York’s Tech Scene Is Still Starting Up
NY Times April 27, 2014 Predicting that your city will be the next Silicon Valley is simple. But actually making it the next Silicon Valley is something else entirely — as New York is slowly finding out. A few years ago, officials and executives in New York proclaimed...
Slack, Stewart Butterfield’s Collaboration Software Startup, Has Raised $42.75M
TechCrunch Big news today for Stewart Butterfield and Slack, his enterprise collaboration app. It’s raised $42.75 million, led by new investor The Social+Capital Partnership, with the participation of existing Tiny Speck investors Accel Partners and Andreessen...
Open Source Data Store Startup Crate Data Raises $1.5M From Sunstone And DFJ Esprit
TechCrunch April 24, 2014 When big data is more than a buzzword it can soon turn into a huge headache for developers or those charged with managing the storage and access of large and growing data sets. That’s the problem open source startup Crate Data has set out to...