Dublin, Ireland-based media holding firm Communicorp snapped up eight stations from London, UK-based media and publishing holding group Global Radio in a deal valued at £35 million as the latter was forced by the Competition Commission to do so.
Deals
Spanish browser-based call center Voz.io raises $150K in seed funding
Barcelona, Spain-based startup Voz.io raised $150,000 in a seed funding round from Kima Ventures for the development of its browser-based call center business and user acquisition strategies.
Indian music streaming service Gaana gobbled up Musicfellas
India-based music streaming service Gaana.com added independent music portal Musicfellas.com for an undisclosed amount, with the latter's site to be shut down and its catalogue to be moved to Gaana.
Balmer Lawrie buys Indian travel venture Vacations Exotica
Kolkata, India-based public sector enterprise Balmer Lawrie & Co Ltd bought Mumbai-based travel venture Vacations Exotica including its employees and customers from Vacations Exotica Destinations Pvt Ltd for an undisclosed sum.
UK's National Institute for Health Research supports East Midlands health initiative with £28M
A £28 million funding was given by the National Institute for Health Research or NIHR and its 50 partners to a health research initiative focused on the East Midlands.
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US-based startup Snippit pockets $500K in seed round to launch an app that adds music clip to photos
San Francisco, California-based startup Snippit pocketed $500,000 in an internal family seed round to launch an app that lets users add a music clip to photos.
San Francisco, California-based mobile video advertising startup Vungle snagged $17 million in a Series B funding round led by Thomvest Ventures to build monetization tools for developers of mobile apps.
PayNearMe, a company based in Sunnyvale, California that allows cash lovers to pay for their online transactions in cash, has raised $20 million for its fifth financing round, VentureBeat reported.
Yobie Bejamin, the former Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Citigroup, raised $1 million on via crowdfunding platform Kickstarter for hardware startup Avegant's new kind of headset called Glyph.
Datamolino, a Slovak startup processes invoices and receipts without the need for manual data entry, has received €500,000 for its seed financing round from Slovak Innovations and Technologies Fund, TechCrunch reported.
Bloomthat, a flower delivery startup based in San Francisco, pulled in seed funding from investors that included SV Angel and Ashton Kutcher amounting to $2 million, TechCrunch reported.
New York, US-based startup Docurated nabbed $3.75 million in its first major funding round led by Rogers Venture Partners to help companies index and search for their files on local servers and cloud storage services.
Allovue, an education technology firm based in Baltimore, Maryland, received $800,000 for its seed funding round from Maryland Technology Development Corporation, Baltimore Angels and Shulman Ventures.
San Francisco, US-based online real-time restaurant reservation platform OpenTable acquired Palo Alto, California-based personalized recommendations app maker Ness Computing in a deal valued at $17.3 million.
