Flow-battery startup EnerVault announced a $15 million round of funding Thursday, which will help the company move forward with its first energy storage system installation.
Flow batteries aren’t well known, but they can be powerful energy storage devices. Instead of …
The rising cost of healthcare is a national crisis that threatens to sink both individuals and the federal government into long-term debt. New York City based Truveris is trying to bring efficiency and transparency to the fastest growing piece of …
Z2Live, the creator of hit free-to-play social games on mobile devices, is announcing today it has acquired Big Sandwich Games in Vancouver, Canada.
The deal will add nine employees to Z2Live’s work force. Terms were not disclosed. But the deal …
Hewlett-Packard reported a decline in revenue for the first fiscal quarter of 2012, which analysts expected as the company struggles to turn itself around.
HP’s revenue was $30 billion for the quarter, down from $32.3 billion during the same period …
If you feel that your Mac’s desktop is missing a news ticker displaying top stories and your RSS feed, Retickr has got you covered. The company announced Reticker 2.0 and a $1.5 million round of funding.
Retickr is a simple …
Earlier in February, news broke that social network LinkedIn was buying Rapportive, a company that makes a Gmail add-on for contacts. On Wednesday Rapportive made it official and announced the news on its company blog.
No word yet on the …
Village Ventures, where Bryan Birsic was a senior associate, wound down its operations last week. But Birsic isn’t taking any time off. He is president of SimpleReach, a startup that helps publishers better engage their readers and has just raised …
Software-as-a-service company Jobber has raised a seed funding round.
SalesForce and other services like it have been around for several years to manage contacts, calendars, task, and invoicing. But, most services are aimed at business executives and startup companies, not …
ResearchGate, a social network for scientists to share knowledge and research, announced Wednesday it has raised its second round of funding, led by Founders Fund partner and PayPal co-founder Luke Nosek.
“ResearchGate is a full-blown network for scientists and researchers …
Stitch Labs, a startup that helps small businesses manage inventory, orders, and shipping, announced today it has raised $1 million in seed funding from True Ventures.
Co-founder Jake Gasaway told VentureBeat in an interview that Stitch Labs really took off …
Everyone’s been frothing at the mouth over the past few weeks over Facebook’s imminent IPO, and we’ve never been more hungry for details. When will the shares be offered for public sale? How much will they cost?
While Facebook left …
Fab.com, the wildly popular design-focused e-commerce site, has just acquired Casacanda, a German startup offering “an online shopping club for daily design inspirations.”
If that mission statement sounds familiar, it’s not just you. The Fab.com team saw the similarities as …
Alibaba Group is raising $3 billion — not to buy back the 40 percent stake Yahoo holds in the parent company, as previously rumored, but to buy back the 27 percent of Alibaba.com stock currently floating around the public market.…
Google has acquired what’s left of Cuil, a once-promising search startup that closed up shop about a year and a half ago.
The startup, which was founded by two former Googlers and an IBM employee, has relinquished control of its …
Update: As expected, Amazon has matched the Buy 2 Get 1 Free sale for Vita games. The Amazon offer ends on February 25.
Original story: In Target’s latest weekly ad the retail chain revealed a “Buy 2 Get 1 Free” …
In what could be the deal of the year, Groupon has snatched up a little-known startup to help it do the dirty work of targeting deals to subscribers.
The newly public deals behemoth has bought two-year-old, New York-based Hyperpublic for …
Groupon employees have alleged abusive working conditions, breach of contract, and a boss (Groupon’s Eastern European CEO Daniel Glasner) whom they described as a “slavedriver”.
Before we dive into the specifics, it should be noted that these emails were excerpted, …
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Twitter has announced a new partnership with American Express to allow small businesses to advertise on the popular social network. The program is due to launch in late March for American Express cardholders and merchants.
Until now, advertisers have had …
Anyone remember Linden Lab? How about its game, Second Life? Well, it was the talk of the middle of the last decade (and winner of a 2008 Emmy award), and it’s making moves again. It’s just announced the acquisition of …
Yelp has amended its SEC S-1 filing to show a starting price of $12 to $14 per share of Yelp stock.
The shares will make their debut on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol YELP.
The most recent …
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