LG Electronics has introduced the G Pro 2, the new version of its large-screen smartphone G Pro, in an attempt to land at Number 3 in global smartphone sales in 2014, Reuters reported.
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Citia gets additional $600K from angel investors
Citia, a publishing platform that helps marketers and content creators take advantage of the shift to a card-based structure, has bagged an added $600,000 from David S. Rose and Geoff Judge, TechCrunch reported.
Personal savings to be used to plug long-term financing gap: EU
The savings of the European Union's 500 million citizens could be used to fund long-term investments to boost the economy and help plug the gap left by banks since the financial crisis, an EU document says.
Lemoptix secures undisclosed amount of funding from Swisscom Ventures, existing investors
Switzerland-based Lemoptix has raised and undisclosed funding amount from Swisscom Ventures, the venture arm of Swiss telco. Lemoptix develops technology that can embed micro-projectors in various devices, TechCrunch reported.
UK-based Fuel3D secures $2.6M in early stage funding after raising $300K in Kickstarter
Fuel3D, the UK-based company that raised $300,000 on Kickstarter for its high resolution 3D scanner, has secured $2.6 million for its early stage funding round, TechCrunch reported.
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The Boston College Venture Competition or BCVC hosted the second year of the Startup Career Fair this week with over 30 tech startups taking part of the event, The Heights reported.
Axine Water Technologies, an industrial wastewater treatment solutions provider, has secured $5.6 million for its Series A round from The Roda Group, Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital and BDC Venture Capital, TechVibes reported.
A post on the official company blog of Uber said that they will be doing more thorough background checks of the drivers of its car riding service, TechCrunch reported.
In its quest to provide employees with a convenient way of getting to work, Facebook will be doing a 90-day trial run of its charter boat that will ferry workers across the San Francisco Bay.
PayPal is shuttering the doors of backend-as-a-service provider StackMob two months after it was purchased. StackMob's clients have until March 31 to transfer their data, VentureBeat reported.
White House officials finally rolled out the Cybersecurity Framework aimed at improving the cybersecurity of public and private critical infrastructure providers so they can better fight against cyber threats, TechCrunch reported.
Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist and founder of Netscape, is optimistic that tech is already recovering from the 2008 financial crisis and that it has decades of growth ahead, TechCrunch reported.
Sellvana, an open source e-commerce software developer based in Portland, Oregon, has received $5 million for its seed funding round from unnamed New York investors, VentureBeat reported.
After selling Mt. Gox to French entrepreneurs in 2011, the Bitcoin exchange's original creator Jed McCaleb is already working on another Bitcoin-related project.
