Lamudi, a real estate listings site backed by Rocket Internet, is in the money today after closing a fresh investment worth €29 million ($31.4 million) to grow its business in Asia and Latin America. Read More
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Today’s Deals – Microsoft Confirms SwiftKey Acquisition (For $250M In Cash)
Microsoft today confirmed that it has acquired SwiftKey — a startup based out of London that makes keyboard apps for Android and iOS devices and is already installed and used on some 300 million devices. The terms of the deal are not being disclosed but sources close to the deal tell us it’s $250 million in cash after Microsoft beat out other interested buyers, which we’ve… Read More
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Today’s Deals – India’s Housejoy Makes First Acquisition Following $23M Round Led By Amazon
Housejoy, the India-based home services on-demand company backed by Amazon, has made its first acquisition after it snapped up on-demand laundry and cleaning company MyWash. Read More
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Today’s Deals – Yahoo Signals Its Core Business Could Be For Sale By Exploring “Strategic Alternatives”
Well, we sort of expected this one to happen.
After its core Internet business has continued to flounder, Yahoo says it is now exploring “strategic alternatives,” which could imply a number of things — including selling off its core business to another company, as was previously reported.
“The Board also believes that exploring additional strategic alternatives, in… Read More
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Today’s Deals – IBM Buys Germany’s Aperto To Build Out Its Digital Agency Business
Another day, another acquisition from IBM. Today Big Blue has announced that it will buy Aperto, a digital agency based in Berlin. Aperto will become a part of IBM Interactive Experience (“IBM iX”) — one of a number of services that IBM has been building out as part of its new wave of enterprise business. The Aperto news comes literally days after IBM announced that it would… Read More
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Today’s Deals – Modsy Raises $8M Series A As It Gears Up For Public Launch
Pencil + Pixel wants to use bleeding edge technology to upgrade your digs. Eventually. Called Modsy, the service still isn’t publicly available but the company is today announcing it raised an $8 million Series A to push its mission towards a public launch. Read More
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Today’s Deals – TheFamily Grabs $6.6 Million To Become A Key Startup Accelerator All Over Europe
Back in October 2013, I had dinner with a dozen people in a good-looking Parisian loft. Part of them were working for TheFamily, part of them were entrepreneurs. It was a nice, small dinner talking about startups and the French tech ecosystem. Read More
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Today’s Deals – AHALife Acquires Bradford Shellhammer’s Design Marketplace Bezar
Bezar, the design ecommerce platform led by Fab cofounder Bradford Shellhammer, has today announced that it will be acquired by Australian ecommerce site AHALife. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. AHALife has been around since 2011, offering users hard-to-find, luxury design products. They ship to 200 countries and have more than 3,000 handpicked designers and artisans selling their… Read More
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Today’s Deals – Rocket Internet’s Spotcap Raises Further €31.5M To Lend To Small Businesses
Spotcap, the Rocket Internet-founded fintech startup that operates an online lending platform for small businesses, has beefed up its coffers with €31.5 million in new funding. Read More
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Today’s Deals – Magic Leap Adds Alibaba’s Jack Ma To Board As New Funding Pushes Valuation To $5B
Magic Leap, the much-hyped augmented reality company, doesn’t officially have a product yet, but that isn’t stopping the company from focusing on the potential of the Chinese movie market. The Florida-based company is adding Alibaba founder and executive president Jack Ma to its board of directors as part of an upcoming Series C funding round that values the company at $5 billion. Read More
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