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Comcast to exit Dollar Shave Club in $1bn acquisition

Dollar Shave Club, which last raised funding in a Comcast Ventures-backed round that valued it at $615m, is to be acquired by Unilever for a reported $1bn in cash.

Jul 20, 2016

DuPont collects Taxon Biosciences

BP, ConocoPhillips and LeFrak all exited microbiome product developer Taxon Biosciences in an acquisition by DuPont.

Jul 19, 2016

ShopClues processes Momoe acquisition

ShopClues has acquired mobile payment startup Momoe for up to $12m, providing an exit to equity holders including IDG Ventures India.

Jul 19, 2016

Amazon has Cloud9 over the moon

Atlassian-backed cloud collaboration software developer Cloud9 has been purchased by Amazon and will be absorbed into its Amazon Web Services product suite.

Jul 18, 2016

Flightcar makes crash landing at Mercedes-Benz

Airport-focused car sharing service Flightcar, which had raised $40m from backers including Priceline, Tencent, Comcast and SoftBank, has shut down and sold its technology to Mercedes-Benz.

Jul 18, 2016

Yatra to go public in reverse merger

The India-based online travel booking platform, which had raised $125m from backers including Intel, IDG and Network18, will merge with a US-based special purpose vehicle.

Jul 14, 2016

Wurldtech to beef up GE's cybersecurity capabilities

Siemens has exited internet-of-things cybersecurity technology producer Wurldtech through an acquisition by General Electric.

Jul 12, 2016

Yandex exits SalesPredict in eBay acquisition

Big data-equipped retail analysis technology developer SalesPredict will be absorbed into eBay in a deal that will allow series A investor Yandex to exit.

Jul 12, 2016

Simply Hired joins Recruit's job search stable

Recruit Holdings has acquired IDG and Fox Interactive-backed job listings platform Simply Hired and will partner it with existing subsidiary Indeed.

Jul 6, 2016

Klik & Pay grinds out Paymill acquisition

Rocket Internet-backed online payment technology provider Paymill has been bought by Klik & Pay for an undisclosed amount, three months after it filed for insolvency.

Jul 6, 2016
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