iFlix, a Netflix-like service available in Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand, is talking to investors with a view to raising up to $150 million in fresh funding in fuel a global expansion. Read More
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Today’s Deals – Easy Taxi And Tappsi Merge To Try To Run Uber Off The Road In LatAm
Rocket Internet-backed Easy Taxi is joining forces with Colombian taxi app startup Tappsi in a merger the pair will be hoping helps them keep accelerating ahead of Uber, which only has a limited presence in the region. Read More
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Today’s Deals – German 3D Indoor Mapping And Navigation Startup NavVis Locates €7.5M Funding
Munich-based 3D indoor mapping and navigation startup NavVis has raised a €7.5 million Series B round of funding as it readies the launch of its smartphone indoor navigation app. Read More
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Today’s Deals – Yahoo Japan Bids To Buy Travel Booking Site Ikyu For Around $830M
Yahoo Japan, the joint venture between SoftBank and Yahoo, has launched a bid to buy Ikyu, a popular online travel and restaurant reservation platform in Japan, for around $830 million. Read More
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Today’s Deals – Finance-Focused Deal Street Asia Is Latest Asian Media Startup To Land Funding
Deal Street Asia, an eighteen-month-old website covering financial investment news, is the latest media outlet in Asia to raise funding as it plans to increase its presence and expand into events and data services. Read More
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Today’s Deals – iPrice Raises $1.2M More For Its E-Commerce Service In Southeast Asia
iPrice, the e-commerce startup that wants to be the gateway to online retail in Southeast Asia, is back in the money after disclosing a new $1.2 million financing round. Read More
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Today’s Deals – Bitcoin Hits Highest Levels Since Late 2014
After a mostly boring 2015, bitcoin is making waves as the year ends by reaching new price heights. Bitcoin is north of the $400 mark, once again, for the second time since 2014. This time, it has surpassed a prior boomlet, reaching price points not seen since late summer last year. Read More
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Today’s Deals – Salesforce Has Acquired MinHash, Creators Of The AILA Virtual Marketing Assistant
Salesforce has made another acquisition to build out its big-data analytics for marketers. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed with Salesforce that it has acquired MinHash, a young startup based in Palo Alto co-founded by two data science engineers formerly with eBay and Avaya. MinHash had developed an AI platform as well as a “personal assistant” called AILA to crawl to… Read More
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Today’s Deals – Experian Sells Hitwise, Simmons To Connexity And Its PE Owner Symphony For Up To $52M
Some more chopping, changing and consolidation in the worlds of traffic analysis and fraud protection. Today it was announced that Experian, one of the world’s biggest credit ratings agencies, is selling off its two well-known analytics divisions in a $51.5 million deal. Hitwise, the traffic measurement company, is being sold to Connexity; and Simmons, which publishes the National… Read More
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Today’s Deals – Cloudyn Cloud Monitoring Service Catches $11 Million Investment
Cloudyn, a service for monitoring and optimizing cloud usage across multiple vendors, announced an $11 million Series B investment today. The round was led by by Carmel Ventures with participation of previous investors Titanium Investments and RDSeed. Today’s investment brings the total to $16.5 million. Cloudyn provides an interesting tangential service for enterprise cloud consumers.… Read More
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