Funding and Acquisitions News: Gigwalk nabs $6M for its temporary mobile-based jobs marketplace

This week’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news roundup:

Mobile

Gigwalk’s mobile workforce nabs $6M, expands Microsoft relationship (via gigaom)

Education

ExecOnline Raises 800K From Washington Post For Executive Education Service That Partners With Top 10 Business Schools (via TechCrunch)

Y Combinator-backed education data startup Clever scores $3M seed round (via gigaom)

Commerce

DIY ecommerce platform Tictail raises $1.6m in seed funding to target the UK market (via TheNextWeb)

Another Online Labour-Booking Funding Win: Intel Capital Leads $4M Series A In Russia’s Eruditor (via TechCrunch)

Kickstarter Record Breaker, USA Underwear Maker Flint And Tinder Gets $850K Seed Round From Zappos’ Tony Hsieh, Lerer And David Tisch (via TechCrunch)

Advertising/Marketing

BIScience pulls in $3.5M with its spying tool for advertisers and media buyers (via VentureBeat)

Commerce

Tradesy raises $1.5 million Series A to kill clothing resale competition (via gigaom)

Rewarder gets $7 million to fulfill your oddest, nerdiest dreams (via gigaom)

Web/Content

Condition One Raises $2.35M From Mark Cuban And Others To Make Immersive, 180-Degree Video Mainstream (via TechCrunch)

CROWDSOURCE RAISES $12.5 MILLION IN SERIES A FUNDING (via Crowdsourcing.org)

Enterprise

Dublin-based Datahug completes €2.5m financing (via Irish Times.com)

Social Media

Yelp Pays $50M To Acquire Its Big European Rival, Qype, To Beef Up Its Recommendations And Listings Business (via TechCrunch)

Does The World Need More Social Media Analytics? Kima Ventures Invests €100K In ShoorK (via TechCrunch)

IT/Security

Shine Security Raises $3.3M To Combat Attacks On Par With Stuxnet (via TechCrunch)

Finance/Investment

Japan’s NTT Docomo Launches $125M Incubator Fund And Program To Accelerate Homegrown Mobile Innovation (via TechCrunch)

Rock Health’s Fourth Class Kicks Off With $100K Seed Funds From Kleiner & More, Plus Support From Kaiser (via TechCrunch)

Mayfield invests in Indian incubator AngelPrime (via Reuters)

Lerer Ventures looks to keep the New York story booming with $36M (via gigaom)

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