Pluralsight closes $27.5M to stave off the Great Developer Shortage of 2013

Online developer training portal Pluralsight takes $27.5M in its first round of funding.

Fanatics shows its team spirit with $150M investment

Sports-centered e-commerce site Fanatics, owned by Kynetic, grabbed the attention of Silicon Valley venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz and Insight Venture Partners to raise a $150 million round of funding at a $1.5 billion.

Fanatics also acquired sports e-commerce company …

Build-your-own-website service Wix.com adds HTML5 support

Monday, drag and drop website builder Wix.com launched its HTML5 website builder, which builds websites with video and animation for devices that don’t support Flash.

Creating a website these days is extremely easy. Drag and drop website builders for the …

Tumblr grabs another $85M in fresh funding

Popular blogging service Tumblr has raised a fresh $85 million round of funding. Hopefully, the company will use this infusion to find more ways to make money.

Tumblr has seen some impressive page view growth. But even with the growth, …

Groupalia rakes in millions to help Europeans, South Americans find deals

Deals site Groupalia doesn’t do something new, but does it in a new place. The year-old consumer deals company has exploded onto the southern European and Latin American markets and is raking in millions.

The company scored two robust rounds …

Bootstrapping builds strength, Cvent founder says

After the dot com bubble burst, Cvent, an online events management company, had to scrimp. The company barely survived.

Twelve years later, founder Reggie Aggarwal, pictured left, had the pleasure of announcing a $136 million round of funding earlier this …

SEC filing cracks the egg on Chegg’s Notehall purchase

New details on Chegg’s June acquisition of Notehall came through SEC filings yesterday.

We do not know how much cash the textbook renting company paid for Notehall, a provider of lecture notes, but according to the form D, Notehall received …