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Facilitating brand partnerships with social media celebrities, Niche raised approximately $3m.

The Hearst-backed social media tools developer has raised $250m to date, but could wait another two years before looking to go public.

Time Warner joined the online media company's existing backers, including Tribune Media, in a series B round that will support the expansion of the company's workforce.

A round up of all the latest news on www.globalcorporateventuring.com for our subscribers.

Twitter has agreed to buy the Times Internet-backed mobile marketing company for a price reported to be about $40m.

Social network Twitter has reportedly entered talks to acquire the Times Internet-backed mobile marketing startup for up to $40m.

US-based distributed data security platform Ionic Security raised $40.1m yesterday in a series C round featuring Google Ventures, the corporate venturing arm of internet company Google. Meritech Capital Partners led the round, which included investments by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), Tech Operators and Jafco Ventures. Ionic has now raised about $78m in total. […]

Mona Locke, a former TV reporter in the Seattle area and the better half of former Seattle governor and the current US ambassador to China Gary Locke, has been named as senior vice president of communications and marketing at Intellectual Ventures. Locke, who will oversee internal and external communications, public relations, and marketing efforts at […]

Turkey’s vision for 2023 is to capitalise on its demographic opportunity to grow rapidly by about 7% per year for the next decade. Funding innovation as a way of boosting the local economy and exports is central to its aim to take its gross domestic product (GDP) to $2 trillion in 2023 from $820bn last year.Hasan Pehlivan, […]

A look at the history of labs, from Robert Hooke to their current spread beyond the sciences

US-based social network app Connect has secured $10.3m in a series A round that included Kinzon Capital, a venture capital firm whose sole limited partner is China-based conglomerate Fosun International. The round also featured Launch Fund, Bull City Venture Partners and angel investors Marc Benioff, who is the CEO of cloud computing platform Salesforce.com, Brad […]

The internet company has finally acquired Vkontakte, bringing an end to a three-year financial, legal and political saga.

Our annual look at the media sector, with interviews with top executives in the sector including Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments's Urs Cete [pictured]

Blue Cross Blue Shield has partnered with the Aksarben Discovery Fund, the venture capital fund which target graduates of the The Lean Launchpad at the Aksarben Innovation Initiative.

This is the first article in our future of advertising series, ahead of our Future of advertising round-table alongside US-based media company American Media in New York on October 1, starting at 1600. Contact tlewis@globalcorporateventuring.com to attend. Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments's Urs Cete is pictured.

The latest $60m raised by AppNexus, in a round that could eventually reach nine digits, is only the latest in what is proving to be a vibrant adtech market.

Serial entrepreneur Kevin Rose is scaling back his time at Google Ventures to launch a new company, North Technologies.

Figure 1 has closed its series A at $4m.

Trending news app SmartNews has now raised $40m in total after receiving $36m in a Gree-backed series B round.