In its first outside funding round, Medium, the blogging platform that Twitter co-founder Ev Williams established, raised $25 million from Greylock Partners and other investors.
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Google partners with LEGO to create online brick-building playground
Google is partnering with LEGO to build an virtual brick-building playground which can be accessed through a computer, smartphone, or tablet, using the new Build with Chrome application.
Colorado-based firm GutCheck secures $4M in funding to test out business ideas
Denver, Colorado-based online market research firm GutCheck secured $4 million in a funding round led by Icon Venture Partners to test out the potential of different business ideas.
Yahoo closes Tomfoolery acquisition, will shut down Anchor app
Yahoo has closed the acquisition of San Francisco, California-based enterprise app studio Tomfoolery, and will be shutting down the latter's Anchor app, according to a source familiar with the deal.
US credit card wallet Coin raising $15M in Series A funding -sources
San Francisco, California-based credit card wallet Coin is currently raising around $15 million in a Series A financing round, according to several sources knowledgeable on the situation.
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Following is a text of the prepared remarks by President Barack Obama for his annual State of the Union address on Tuesday, where he urged Congress to pass legislation that rebuilds the mortgage market to rely more on private capital, but also maintains support for creditworthy borrowers.
Crowdfunding platform Indiegogo raised another $40 million in fresh capital from US private equity firms, which include Institutional Venture Partners and KPCB, CBC News said in its report.
A growing number of hedge funds and institutional investors are acquiring non-performing loans from banks and federal agencies who can no longer keep them due to expensive holding costs of such loans, Bloomberg said in its report.
Bitcoin' chances to get recognition as a legal form of money or payment has been slimmed down again when a top foreign currency in Sweden, SEB AB, denied its clients' requests to open accounts in the bank to manage Bitcoins the latter owned.
Igenica Inc, the biopharmaceutical firm dedicated to developing antibodies and antibody-drug conjugates to treat the Big C, obtained $14 million in its Series C extension round.
Seattle, US-based beauty product startup Julep launched a crowdfunding campaign on its website to raise $75,000 for a new bendable nail polishing tool to test the demand for the said product.
Sightly was able to obtain $1.7 million in seed funds in a round led by Mac Capital and participated in by other investors which included Tomorrow Ventures and 500 Startups.
Sameer Gehlaut, the Chairman and Co-Founder of Indiabulls Group, backed stealth mobile messaging and social networking startup MyActivityPal Inc with a $5 million investment for its Series A found.
Secure mobile messaging app for enterprises Cotap raised $10 million for its Series B funding round led by Emergence Capital Partners. So far, the latest proceeds brought to $15.5 million Cotap's total funds raised.
