Funding and Acquisitions: Mobile payments company Payfone secures $11 million series B

Today’s funding and acquisitions roundup: Payfone Announces US $11 Million Series B Financing (Techfinance.ca) PlacePop Looks To Give Any Business…

14 years ago

Funding and Acquisitions: ‘Farmville’ maker Zynga confirms big investment from Softbank

Today’s funding and acquisitions roundup: Buongiorno buys into mobile shopping with Glamoo (via GoMo News) Zynga Confirms Softbank Investment. They’ll…

14 years ago

Funding and Acquisitions: Adobe and GameStop announce significant acquisitions

Today’s funding and acquisitions roundup: Adobe buys web software company for $240 million (via VentureBeat) GameStop Gets Digital With Kongregate Buy…

14 years ago

Q&A with David Kaiser, CEO Coincident TV

 As a follow-up to its company pitch (Coincident TV: 5/3/10), StartUp Beat did a Q&A with Coincident TV’s David Kaiser,…

14 years ago

Funding and Acquisitions: Skype founders Zennstrom and Friis back auction site MadBid with series A

Today’s funding and acquisitions roundup: Skype founders place $6 million bet on MadBid.com (via VentureBeat) Zattikka raises $5M to expand…

14 years ago

Will the IPO market ever be the same?

From VentureBeat—this is an outstanding article by serial entrepreneur Steve Blank about the evolution of VCs and the IPO market. …

14 years ago

Funding and Acquisitions: Betable gets $3M from Skype founders’ VC fund

Today’s funding and acquisitions roundup: Betable secures $3 million to become the Twitter for betting (via TechCrunch) Plum District gets…

14 years ago

DoNanza seeks to become the Kayak of the freelance market

You may have thought sites like Elance and oDesk had the freelance market covered, but startup DoNanza is taking a…

14 years ago

Funding and Acquisitions: Flipboard acquires Ellerdale, launches media reader app for iPad

Today’s funding and acquisitions roundup: Flipboard Buys Ellerdale, Launches Social Digital Magazine (via gigaom) ThisNext raises more cash to focus on…

14 years ago

Funding and Acquisitions: Security firm closes moderate funding round

Today’s funding and acquisitions roundup: Predilect lands $750k for stronger security questions (via DealsBeat)

14 years ago

Startup activity at record low in first half of 2010, according to report

A survey of job seekers by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray, and Christmas that measures the percentage of those who opt…

14 years ago

Funding and Acquisitions: Compass Labs and Puppet Labs raise $5 million each

Today’s funding and acquisitions roundup: Pixazza raises $12 million to make images across the web interactive (via MobileBeat) Compass Labs…

14 years ago