Pasadena, California-based kinetic desk maker Stir raised $1.5 million in a seed funding round led by Vegas TechFund and Zach Ware to scale up its production and distribution efforts.
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Greece-based Locish bags $820K for seed round
Mobile Q&A app Locish secured fresh funding of $820,000 for its seed financing round led by Odyssey Jeremy Partners and joined in by other investors, a statement about the funding said.
MtGox finds 200,000 lost bitcoins worth USD116 million
According to MtGox CEO Mark Karpeles in a regulatory filing, the bitcoin exchanger has found 200,000 lost bitcoins from an old digital wallet from 2011.
Detroit Institute of Music Education Inc secures $3M from private equity firm Beringea
Music education college Detroit Institute of Music Education Inc received a $3 million investment from private equity firm Beringea, a statement about the funding said.
Inmarsat breaks silence over MH370 automated signal pings
Inmarsat Senior Vice President Chris McLaughlin was interviewed on the Kelly File and confirmed that their satellites received automated pings from the missing MH370 flight.
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Toronto, Canada-based hardware engineering collaborative platform Upverter bagged $2.3 million in a seed funding round led by Version One Ventures to grow its enterprise business and develop its product.
San Francisco-based software enterprise startup bagged $10 million for its Series B financing round led by Nokia Growth Partners and Randstad Holdings and joined in by previous investors, VentureBeat reported.
Redwood City, US-based video streaming service Qik will shut down on April 30 after its features have been integrated into Skype, which acquired it for $150 million three years ago.
A former employee of Microsoft Corp was arrested and charged with stealing the trade secrets of the software company and giving them to a blogger in France, Bloomberg News reported.
San Jose, California-based LEGO rental startup Pley closed $6.75 million in its Series A funding round led by Allegro Venture Partners to fuel its product, workforce, and international expansion efforts.
Twenty-five tech companies have turned to Senator Ron Wyden asking his help to oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership or TPP that could potentially limit online freedoms, VentureBeat reported.
Bangalore, India-based payment solutions provider Innoviti nabbed INR10 crore in debt funding from Tata Capital and other investors from London and India to scale up its Middle East operations and beef up its management team.
Twitter is now offering an alternative way of sending Tweets via SMS after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan lambasted social media for linking him to a corruption scandal and blocking the social network in the country.
Mt. Gox said it had found 200,000 Bitcoins in a wallet that it used before June 2011. The discovery was made on March 7, a week after it had filed for bankruptcy, Reuters reported
