Washington, US-based tech firm Flat World, a company that aims to make more affordable digital versions of college textbooks, raised $9.5 million in a funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners.
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3D Printing and Technology Fund portents how 3D printing industry is going mainstream
The 3D Printing and Technology Fund, the first mutual fund focused on 3D printing and technology, is another manifestation that the industry has gone mainstream, VentureBeat reported.
American finance app Mint integrates with Coinbase for faster bitcoin and finance tracking
Mountain View, California-based personal finance app Mint is integrating with San Francisco-based bitcoin wallet service Coinbase to help clients track their bitcoins along with their other financial accounts.
Nintendo Co to consider new businesses after consumers snub Wii U console
After consumers gave its Wii U console the brush off, Nintendo Co is considering other businesses such as its healthcare-related entertainment business while not losing its focus on hardware and software, Bloomberg reported.
US travel startup Inside.co makes travelers feel like locals with insider tips
Boulder, US-based travel startup Inside.co today launched its Inside Travel Guides portal, which also has a mobile version, to help travelers feel like local citizens with day-by-day and place-by-place insider itinerary tips.
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HowAboutWe.com, a digital lifestyle firm backed venture capital firms, said it had acquired Nerve.com and launched its independent lifestyle media network and advertising division HowAboutWe Media.
London-based entrepreneur George Burgess secured $1 million (£604,000) in funding for the next project to develop a mobile app called Gojimo that helps high school students pass their exams.
Blue Bottle Coffee was able to raise a $25.7 million investment in a financing round led by Morgan Stanley Investment Management, a source told TechCrunch.
India-based e-commerce giant Flipkart is in talks to merge with online fashion retailer Myntra as part of a proposal being pushed by common investors Tiger Global and Accel Partners.
Apple Inc has spent nearly two times what it spent the year before on acquisition deals, deploying $525 million for these purchases last quarter, Bloomberg reported.
New York, US-based social TV startup Viggle snapped up San Francisco, California-based rival Dijit Media for an undisclosed sum to acquire and incorporate the latter's NextGuide and reminder button features into its own offerings.
Marketing intelligence solutions provider Origami Logic secured $15 million for its Series B financing round led by venture capital firm Jafco Ventures and joined by existing investors.
US-based private equity firm The Carlyle Group invested an undisclosed sum in Ireland-based chocolate maker Lily O'Brien's for the expansion of the latter's global consumer reach.
Russian Internet giant Yandex has invested an unconfirmed amount to acquire logistics provider Multiship to provide an easier way of delivering goods to the customers of Yandex's e-commerce platform.
