Source: Venturebeat
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South Korea’s biggest messaging app is preparing for an IPO
Facebook's announcement it is paying $19 billion in cash and stock to acquire WhatsApp is a milestone in the short history of mobile messaging apps. Hundreds of millions of people...
Battery Ventures pours $7 million into Smarter Remarketer
Smarter Remarketer, the leading provider of customer intelligence for multi-channel retailers, today announced it has secured $7 million in venture financing in a round led by Battery Ventures. As part of...
Physicians from the Mayo Clinic have teamed up with investors to launch a startup
A Mayo Clinic clinical team is launching a new company to provide clinical decision support tools for the ICU, operating room and emergency department. The startup is backed with $1.1 million in seed funding...
Cloud app security software startup Elastica raises $6.3 million in funding
Cloud app security software startup Elastica emerged from stealth on Tuesday with $6.3 million in Series A funding. The San Jose company led by CEO Rehan Jalil said that the funding came from...
Chinese mobile payment industry rose to a whopping $1.59 trillion in 2013
There’s been a lot of talk about how mobile payments are on the rise in China and now statistics from the People’s Bank of China have shed some light on how huge...
Men’s fashion startup raises $18 million in funding to grow in European markets
Outfittery has bagged $18 million in new financing so it can grow in other European markets. The startup current has operations in Germany, Switzerland and Australia. Proceeds from the latest funding...
PayPal president David Marcus is a boss but not a leader
All presidents of past and present have their great moments including this latest one from PayPal president David Marcus, who threatened to internal PayPal employees in the San Jose, California...
Online education provider TutorGroup raises $100 million in funding
Online language learning provider TutorGroup has raised $100 million from Alibaba, Temasek, and Qiming Venture Partners, reports VentureBeat. The company previously raised $15 million in April 2012. Founded in 2004, TutorGroup offers three...
Guardant Health has developed new technology for the war on cancer
When testing for the possibility of certain types of cancer, doctors often do surgery to retrieve biopsies for genetic analysis. But when a patient has already had cancer, and is...
BlackBerry adds Channels and Voice to the iOS and Android versions of BBM
BlackBerry Messenger users can tap into a potpourri of new features when the app is updated on Thursday. Slated to reach iOS and Android users, version 2.0 of BBM will bring with it BBM Voice, a way...
Secretive e-commerce software developer secures $5 million in seed funding
A secretive e-commerce software developer called Sellvana secured $5 million for its seed funding round, VentureBeat reported. The names of the investors in New York and other funding specifics were not disclosed....
Instagram releases hard-copy handbook for its advertising program
Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom has repeatedly emphasized that a big focus for the company is to "keep the standard really, really high" for its first ads, something Facebook and mobile ad networks...
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