Today’s technology early-stage funding and acquisitions news roundup:
Social Media
Yuri Milner, Dave Morin, SV Angel, CrunchFund And More Hook Up Pair With $4.2M (via TechCrunch)
Mobile
Appthority Secures Funding to Rate Risky App Behavior
Vungle Raises $2 Million for Mobile Developers to Promote Apps Through Video Trailers
Berlin-based Orderbird Gets $3.5M For Its iOS-Based Restaurant Ordering Solution (via TechCrunch)
More funding and acquisitions news…
Ecommerce
Ruby Ribbon Inks $3M (via PE Hub)
Gaming
PlaySay gamifies language learning with speech recognition app (via VentureBeat)
OMGWHAT? GREE Acquires Mobile-Social Game Developer Funzio For $210M (via TechCrunch)
Healthcare
CareZone, A Service For Caregivers, Raises $13M From NEA, Catamount And Jonathan Schwartz (via TechCrunch)
Funding/Investment
European VC Connect Ventures Launches With $22M Fund. Secret Sales Gets The First Helping: $487K (via TechCrunch)
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