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Apple has announced that it has agreed to acquire the subscription streaming music service Beats Music, and Beats Electronics, which makes the Beats headphones, speakers and audio software.
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Darby Smart, a company that brings do-it-yourself (DIY) projects and supplies directly to the consumer’s door and allows them to recreate the DIY projects on the Internet, has
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Web’s leading rewards community Swagbucks – and its parent company, Prodege LLC – announced today its first external capital round with a direct investment of $60 million from
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International investment firm, Axon Partners Group, has invested in iYogi, which provides on-demand tech support for consumers and small businesses. Announced today, May 12, the investment will bring
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Corporate
Leading online content services company AOL Inc. (NYSE:AOL) announced Tuesday an agreement to acquire Convertro Inc., a leading provider of multi-touch attribution modeling technology for brands and agencies.
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Corporate
Pear Sports, a designer of personalized coaching technologies, announced Monday its second round of funding in the amount of $5 million. Existing investors (Innovate Partners and Nordic Ventures)
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Vitruvian Partners, a private equity firm, has led a $66m Series D round of investment in Farfetch, a global e-commerce site for independent boutiques. It was announced today
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Consumer
EatStreet, an online and mobile food ordering service in over 75 U.S. cities, secured $6 million in a Series B funding. It comes with participation from Cornerstone Opportunity
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By adopting PAYware Mobile devices that are Visa Ready approved, merchants enjoy the benefits of secure electronic payment acceptance from virtually any location. The program is designed to
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Corporate
Close on the heels of acquiring WhatsApp, a cross-platform mobile messaging company, Facebook says it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Oculus VR, Inc., an immersive virtual
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Corporate
IBM (NYSE: IBM) introduced Thursday its new software and services to help organizations use Big Data and Analytics to address the $3.5 trillion (IBM estimates) lost each year
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Finance
New media production and live streaming company Streamin’ Garage announced Wednesday it is producing a live online bitcoin game show, “Take My Bitcoins.” Sponsored by Butterfly Labs, a
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Corporate
The Digital Economy Task Force (DETF) – sponsored by Thomson Reuters and the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) – released its report on the emerging
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Americas
Facebook announced Wednesday that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire WhatsApp, a cross-platform mobile messaging company, for a total of approximately $16 billion, including $4 billion
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Corporate
Social networking company Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) reported Wednesday its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended Dec. 31, 2013. It claimed that the revenue
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