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Casual Trading App Bux Raises $1.9M
Dutch startup Bux is on a mission to open stock trading to a much larger market — namely, those who have never traded before. Its casual trading app for iOS and Android attempts to gamify trading (as if it wasn’t gamified enough already) by letting traders start off with virtual currency before investing with real money, as well as compete with friends. Read More
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Airbnb Acquires Multi-City Trip Planning Service Vamo, Will Shut Down Product
Airbnb is acquiring Vamo, a service that helps in the process of booking trips with stops in multiple cities, and shutting the product down. Airbnb might not use Vamo, but the company’s appetite for a team like Vamo CEO Ari Steinberg’s makes sense. Airbnb isn’t just about booking a residence — there’s a whole additional layer of experiences that sit on top of… Read More
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IronSource Merges With Supersonic In Mobile Ad Consolidation Play
On the heels of AOL snapping up Millennial Media last week comes another mobile advertising consolidation play. IronSource, a specialist in mobile app distribution and promotion services, has merged with SupersonicAds, a mobile ad company specialising in in-game and in-app ads. The deal will create one large mobile ad player, covering 1 billion monthly users and expected to generate $450… Read More
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Inrix Buys ParkMe To Add Smart Parking Services To Its Real Time Traffic Data
Inrix, a startup out of Washington that provides real-time traffic and other data to car companies like BMW and Tesla, tech companies like Samsung and Google, and 400 other enterprises, has made an acquisition to expand the features that it offers to its users. It has bought ParkMe, a startup out of Santa Monica that offers “smart parking” services to users, including finding… Read More
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Apperian Snares $12M As Mobile Applications Management Catches On
Apperian, a mobile applications management (MAM) firm from Boston, announced a $12 million round today led by Malaysia-based First Floor Capital. Bessemer Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, North Bridge Venture Partners, Intel Capital and CommonAngels Ventures also participated. Today’s investment brings the total raised to date to just over $39 million dollars. This… Read More
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Berlin-Based Online Fashion And Lifestyle Retailer Lesara Bags €15M Series B
Berlin-based online fashion and lifestyle retailer Lesara wants to make it easier for consumers in Europe to buy ‘direct’ from factories in Asia, thus passing on significant discounts. FeeX, Which IDs Hidden Fees In Financial Products, Scores $2.75M In Fresh Funding
FeeX, a free service that sniffs out hidden fees in retirement and savings accounts, announced that it has raised $2.75 million in new funding. The round was led by Collaborative Fund. Drupal And WordPress Hosting Service Pantheon Launches New Enterprise Product
Pantheon, a well-funded website hosting and management platform for Drupal and WordPress sites, today announced that it is launching a new enterprise service.
Pantheon Enterprise builds on the company’s experience in building and running its service for agencies that handle the sites of multiple clients. That service now hosts the sites of more than 1,500 of Pantheon’s agency partners. Read More
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Mobile App Letgo Raises $100 Million From Naspers To Take Over Classifieds In The U.S.
Can a mobile classified app topple the behemoth that is Craigslist? A company called letgo aims to find out. Its app, which lets users buy and sell items locally, has quietly grown to over 2 million downloads since its launch earlier this year. And today, the company is announcing having raised $100 million in Series A funding from South African media company and tech investor Naspers… Read More
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Microsoft Acquires Organizational Analytics Service VoloMetrix
Microsoft today announced that it has acquired VoloMetrix, a service that specializes in analyzing organizational performance using anonymized data it gathers from across a company’s corporate communications systems. Organization analytics is something Microsoft itself has been looking at, too, and its Delve organizational analytics service is currently in preview and scheduled for… Read More
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