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Handling 5M actions, EasilyDo brings its smart assistant app to Android with a widget and event list

May 21, 2013
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Handling 5M actions, EasilyDo brings its smart assistant app to Android with a widget and event list

Smart assistant service EasilyDo today released an Android version of its app, making it accessible to more users. With this version, users can have the app better track what’s happening in their social lives and enable them to be more productive. It also includes two features specific to Android devices: a widget feature and event…

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Stocks rise on strong auto sales, factory orders

April 2, 2013
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Stocks rise on strong auto sales, factory orders

The Dow Jones industrial average touched another record high Tuesday following strong reports on auto sales and factory orders, the latest evidence that the U.S. economy is strengthening. Chrysler said ...

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Import.io closes $906,900 seed round to develop its cloud-based platform for extracting big data

March 21, 2013
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Import.io closes $906,900 seed round to develop its cloud-based platform for extracting big data

Import.io, a cloud-based platform for analyzing “big data” from the Web, has raised £600,000 ($906,900 USD) in a seed round to be able to improve and expand its core product. Wellington Partners, who were involved in a $30.6 million Series B for Hailo last month, Alta Vista founder Louis Monier, and technology investor Emmanuel Javal…

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Talent Matching And Intelligence Software Company Evolv Raises $15M From VantagePoint, Khosla And Others

March 12, 2013
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Evolv, a startup that develops science-based, on-demand talent matching and intelligence software, has raised another $15 million in Series D financing, led by VantagePoint Capital Partners with existing investors GGV Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Khosla Ventures also participating in the round. This brings the company’s total funding to $44 million. Evolv’s Talent Matching and…

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Nipendo lands $8m from Horizons and others for its plug-and-play B2B trading platform

March 11, 2013
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Nipendo lands $8m from Horizons and others for its plug-and-play B2B trading platform

Nipendo, which offers a cloud-based B2B integration platform that enables companies to connect and transact with their trading partners, has secured $8 million in Series B funding. The capital injection comes from Horizons Ventures, which manages the private tech investments of billionaire business magnate Li Ka-shing, and prior backer Magma Venture Partners. Gilad Novik, CTO…

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Artisan Partners shares climb in trading debut

March 7, 2013
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Shares of Artisan Partners Asset Management Inc. jumped in their trading debut Thursday after the investment manager raised $331.6 million in an initial public stock offering.The Milwaukee company sold ...

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Delhi-based Playcez is first GSF India grad to land funding, closes 6-figure dollar seed round

March 7, 2013
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Delhi-based Playcez is first GSF India grad to land funding, closes 6-figure dollar seed round

Earlier this week we published an interview with Rajesh Sawhney – the man behind GSF India and its new accelerator program – in which he voiced his expectation that “nine or ten” of the inaugural class of 15 startups will close funding in the coming months. That first step has been taken after Delhi-based event discovery app Playcez, became the first…

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Telerik acquires Danish cross-platform app analytics software maker EQATEC

March 7, 2013
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Telerik acquires Danish cross-platform app analytics software maker EQATEC

Telerik, a US-based provider of tools for project management, collaboration, software development and testing, has acquired Copenhagen, Denmark-based EQATEC. The acquisition, announced earlier today by EQATEC, is meant to enable Telerik to boost its application development lifecycle solution stack with a software analytics suite. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but here’s a…

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BankUnited shares fall on news of stock offering

March 6, 2013
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BankUnited slid 5 percent in trading Wednesday after a regulatory filing revealed that the company's CEO and other investors plan to sell 19.6 million shares in an underwritten offering.The bank holding ...

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Innovid Raises $11M More From Sequoia And Others To Make Interactive Video Ads Truly Multiplatform

March 6, 2013
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Online video is growing, and with it so are online video ads. There’s just one problem — the marketplace for serving ads, especially interactive video ads, is extremely fragmented. Due to the large number of devices on the market, each with different ad-serving capabilities, reaching them all is still extremely difficult.

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