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...
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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...
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...
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...
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. He sees...
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...
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 novel approach to connecting free...
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...
Funding and Acquisitions: Security firm closes moderate funding round
Today’s funding and acquisitions roundup: Predilect lands $750k for stronger security questions (via DealsBeat)...
Startup activity at a 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 to start a business, found...
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...
Funding and Acquisitions: With New Funding in Hand, Will Trilliant Pursue an IPO?
Today’s funding and acquisitions news: Smart Grid Company Trilliant Scores $106M In Funding – Next Up, An IPO? (via TechCrunch) ...
