This week’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news:
Education
Desire2learn pulls in $80M, the largest-ever VC investment in Canadian software startup (via VentureBeat)
Mobile
With An Extra $1.2M From Rally Capital, Pirq Adds Loyalty, Nat’l Rollout To Its Restaurant Deals App (via TechCrunch)
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Commerce
eBay Acquires Style-Focused, Social, Curated Shopping Site Svpply (via TechCrunch)
Finance/Investment
VC network aims new $377M fund at Latin America (via VentureBeat)
Boxee backer Pitango tools up with $150 million for Israeli tech (via gigaom)
Nexus Raises A Third Fund Of $270M To Find The Next Killer App, In India (via TechCrunch)
Thrive Capital raises $150M for third fund (via gigaom)
Social Media
Spreecast raises $7M Series A for social-video platform (via VatorNews)
Web/Content
With $1.9 Million In Funding, Dekko Aims To Be The Platform On Which Good Augmented Reality Is Built (via TechCrunch)
Tesco Buys E-bookseller Mobcast For $7.2 million As It Squares Up To Amazon And B&N In The UK (via TechCrunch)
PastBook raises $250,000, helps you capture your digital memories (via TheNextWeb)
Security
Google Acquires Online Virus, Malware and URL Scanner VirusTotal (via TechCrunch)
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