Three-year-old business services provider FeeFighters has been acquired by daily deals giant Groupon for an undisclosed sum.
“Our goals have always been to help small businesses run more efficiently, and by teaming up with Groupon, a pioneer in local e-commerce, …
Nearly every aspect of music startup Spotify is growing, including its total active users, paying subscribers, its music library, and the number of international markets it reaches. So it seems reasonable that the company’s valuation should do the same.
The …
Zynga filed a revised S-1 this morning with the SEC that contained a number of interesting details. It pegged the price of its recent purchase of NYC game company OMGPOP at $180 million. The filing also revealed the company will …
At VentureBeat, we come across a lot of funding news every day. In order to bring you the most information possible, we’re rounding up the quick-and-dirty details about the funding deals of the day and serving them up here in …
With a 73-26 vote, the U.S. Senate brought my dream of a bonsai pet business one step closer to reality today. The bill added some much-needed requirements to the JOBS Act that passed in the House of Representatives, giving the …
PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel must have a thing for Kiwis. He’s launching another venture fund focused on the otherwise unheard of New Zealand technology scene.
The fund, which Thiel is executing through his venture capital firm Valar Ventures, totals $32 …
We’re hearing loud rumors this morning that hot-as-molten-lava startup Path may have just closed a $20 million round of funding.
The round was reportedly led by Redpoint Ventures and pegged Path at a $250 million valuation.
While Business Insider is …
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Zynga’s purchase of OMGPOP for a price reported to be around $150 million to $200 million has drawn mixed reviews on Wall Street. The deal gives Zynga the team that made Draw Something, a Pictionary-style mobile game that has been …
At a Senate judiciary committee hearing Wednesday, top executives from Verizon and Comcast reaffirmed their stance that consumers would benefit from the approval of a multibillion-dollar spectrum deal between the largest U.S. carrier and the country’s biggest cable television providers.…
Outsourcing service oDesk, which brokers jobs between freelance workers and businesses looking to outsource, announced today it has raised $15 million in its fourth round of funding.
“oDesk helps find and match clients with contractors and helps them work together …
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GamesBeat is proud to announce that we’ve secured 100 beta codes for TERA, the upcoming MMO from En Masse Entertainment. Rivaling the visuals and production values of the Lineage series and anything put out by NCSoft, TERA has been a …
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At South By Southwest Interactive, we got to sit down for an interview with OMGPOP chief revenue officer Wilson Kriegel. We talked at length about the small game studio’s meteoric rise to blockbuster success with Draw Something — and about …
We’ve confirmed that Zynga, the app-studio-eating megalith of social gaming, has acquired OMGPOP, maker of new hit mobile game Draw Something. You know what they say: If you can’t beat ‘em, buy ‘em.
Zynga eventually wants “to get one billion …
ATP Capital, the firm that manages the BlackBerry Partners Fund, Clairmont Capital, and JLA Ventures, is today re-branding itself as Relay Ventures to sex up its image. (And let’s face it, anything is better than three capital letters.)
Relay Ventures …
Boston-based OpenView Venture Partners has raised a new $200 million fund with the goal of propping up cloud and operational support for enterprise-class companies, the firm announced Wednesday.
OpenView has a history of funding big data and cloud companies in …
Early Facebook investment firm Digital Sky Technologies (DST) is attempting to raise $1 billion for a new tech fund — offering a pretty sweet deal for those that participate.
To kick off the fund, DST is putting up $50 million …
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Yummly, a recipe search engine that would make any recipe hoarder and home chef happy, announced Wednesday it has raised $6 million is its first round of funding. The site compiles recipes from several popular recipes sites so you can …
U.K. startup Crashpadder has found a permanent home at temp-stay booking service Airbnb.
Airbnb has acquired the three year-old company, which takes a marketplace-for-spare-spaces approach to travel booking, for an undisclosed sum, the companies announced Tuesday.
Both startups offer nearly …
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