Li Ka-Shing, the richest man in Asia, led a $23-million investment round in Silicon Valley, US-based synthetic egg startup Hampton Creek which is preparing to conquer the Asian market.
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US-based cybersecurity startup Shape Security pockets $40M in venture funding
Mountain View, California-based cybersecurity startup Shape Security pocketed $40 million in a venture funding round led by Norwest Ventures and Sierra Ventures to beef up its product offerings and its sales team.
American startup Open Labs updates StageLight software to let users create music with Timbaland
Austin, Texas-based hardware and software startup Open Labs updated its StageLight software to allow users to create and edit their own music with the help of hip-hop superstar Timbaland.
Cybersecurity startup CounterTack closes Series B round with additional $3M to raise $15M
Cybersecurity startup CounterTack based in Waltham, Massachusetts closed its Series B funding round with an additional $3 million to bring the financing total to $15 million.
New social night life app allows Philippine party-goers to join a club list hassle-free
Philippines-based social night life app Guestlist allows party-goers to get included in a club's guest list to lessen the hassle of falling in line or paying for an entrance fee to gain entry.
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Threatened by the news of the Mozilla Foundation developing a $25 Firefox OS smartphone, Finnish phone maker Nokia also launched its own set of new Android smartphones for emerging markets during the Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona.
Athenahealth Inc is rolling out an accelerator program to encourage more entrepreneurship among healthcare IT companies and help the company add to its services, Venture Capital Dispatch reported.
US-based search giant Google launched a new Cloud Pricing Calculator that helps developers determine the cost of running an application, including the amount of storage, CPU, time, and other resources required to run an application on its public cloud.
Dropbox has obtained an added $350 million in a Series C funding round from its existing investors and major mutual funds, TechCrunch reported citing a filing with the US Sec and a source who confirmed the fundraising.
HackerEarth, an India-based platform that matches programmers with startups looking for technical talent, received a $500,000 from Angelprime for its seed funding round, TechCrunch reported.
California, US-based social networking giant Facebook is ditching its users' facebook.com emails starting March because many people were not using them, and will automatically revert to the original emails registered with the network.
A $10.8 million product development grant was awarded to Houston-based DNAtrix Inc by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas or CPRIT to fund its glioblastoma clinical stage program.
Texas, US-based storage marketplace SpareFoot raised $10 million in a new funding round from Insight Venture Partners for the company's growth, product development, and expansion efforts in the storage industry.
San Francisco, US-based advertising technology startup AdStage bagged $1 million in funding from existing investor Digital Garage to increase its workforce and launch a new app partnership program.
