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.
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YPlan expands to San Francisco
As part of its expansion, the "going out" app YPlan will be expanding to San Francisco, California. It also has entered into an exclusive ticketing partnership with Noise Music Festival and will be unveiling a new feature, VentureBeat reported.
Japan's Outsourcing Inc invests $5M in India's Alp Consulting
Tokyo, Japan-based staffing firm Outsourcing Inc invested $5 million (INR30 crore) for a majority stake in Bangalore, India-based search and staffing company Alp Consulting Ltd to gain access to the Indian market.
Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox goes dark in blow to virtual currency
Mt. Gox, once the world's biggest bitcoin exchange, went dark on Tuesday, with its website down, its Tokyo office empty, and a cryptic comment from its chief executive that the business was at "a turning point."
Virginia-based Alice Blue photo studio acquires New York's Nucleus Imaging
Richmond, US-based visual creation studio Alice Blue acquired New York-based multi-faceted post-production studio Nucleus Imaging, a bigger firm, for an undisclosed amount to expand into a new market.
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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.
New York, US-based tech giant IBM and Dallas, Texas-based telecom firm AT&T struck a strategic partnership that will create a simplified service that will help businesses deal with network security problems and other cyber threats.
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said he will be putting money where his mouth is and donating $1 million to companies that will use technology to find solutions to global problems, TechCrunch reported.
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.
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.
