Menlo Park, US-based venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners invested an undisclosed amount in San Jose Spiders, a professional Frisbee league owned by Cisco Systems Inc president Rob Lloyd.
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Melbourne IT adds web hosting firm NetRegistry in $50M deal
Melbourne, Australia-based web hosting provider Melbourne IT added Sydney-based web domain registry and web hosting firm NetRegistry in a deal valued at $50.4 million to combine two of the biggest web service businesses in the country.
Tembusu Terminals installs first Bitcoin machine in Singapore to possibly dispense cash
Tembusu Terminals Pte has set up the first Bitcoin ATM in Singapore just days after Japan-based Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox went offline because of possible theft, Bloomberg reported.
Red Arrow picks up majority stake in US entertainment firm Half Yard for over $40M
Unterfoehring, Germany-based production and distribution firm Red Arrow Entertainment Group picked up a majority stake in Bethesda, US-based entertainment firm Half Yard Productions in a deal estimated to be valued at more than $40 million.
Permira to buy Tilney's regional businesses from Deutsche Bank
Permira will be buying the regional businesses of private client investment manager Tilney in Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Liverpool from Deutsche Bank, a statement about the funding said.
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CIA's former Chief Technology Officer Gus Hunt will be foraying into the venture capital space to serve as an advisor to investment firm Artis Ventures, VentureBeat reported.
Robert Friedland's High Power Exploration has invested in Australian copper prospector Apollo Minerals, highlighting the progress it is making into the country's small cap resources sector, Reuters reported.
Joseph Dear, the Chief Investment Officer of the biggest public pension fund in the US Calpers, passed away yesterday due to prostate cancer, Bloomberg reported.
BEST Funds provided a $1.5 million investment in XipLink to be used for the latter's sales and marketing efforts and support its continued efforts in coming up with inventive technological developments.
Waterloo, Canada-based software giant OpenText invested $1 million to open a data center in Sydney, Australia, to help companies deal with problems centered on enterprise data.
Waterloo, Australia-based mobile payment startup Beat the Q bagged $1 million in funding from high-net worth individuals to partially fund its planned acquisition of Sydney-based loyalty app eCoffeeCard.
Facebook pages dedicated to guns make it easy for illicit buyers and sellers of weapons to connect and complete a purchase of a weapon without going through the legal process, VentureBeat reported.
Burbank, US-based movie company Warner Bros is mulling over a $10 million to $15 million investment in YouTube game-focused web video site Machinima, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
Nok Nok Labs secured $16.5 million in its latest funding round from Lenovo, DCM and Onset Ventures as it seeks to move online authentication beyond usernames and passwords, VentureBeat reported.
