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Shares of healthcare information provider Castlight Health Inc rose more than 160 percent in their debut, sister news service Reuters reported, making the listing the strongest by a technology company so far this year.
Castlight Health Inc's initial public offering was priced at $16 per Class B share, slightly above the company's expected range, an underwriter told Reuters.
Online ticketing service Eventbrite said it had raised $60 million in financing from Tiger Global and T. Rowe Price, Reuters reported, damping expectations that Eventbrite might hold an initial public offering this year.
Finnish start-up Next Games has raised $6 million in funding in the latest of several venture capital investments in the Nordic country's booming mobile games industry, sister news service Reuters reported.
A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday temporarily froze the U.S. assets of Mt. Gox chief Mark Karpeles and allowed alleged victims of the shuttered bitcoin exchange to demand evidence of what they claim is a massive fraud, Reuters reported.
Entrepreneurial success stories from South by Southwest are getting harder to come by. But that hasn't stopped entrepreneurs like P.K. Fields from flocking to the conference to get in front of venture capitalists.
(Reuters) - Walt Disney Co is in talks to buy Maker Studios, potentially valuing the fast-growing developer and publisher of YouTube entertainment videos at half a billion dollars or more, tech blog Re/code reported on Tuesday. Maker's VC backers include Greycroft Partners, Upfront Ventures and Time Warner Investments, among others.
British medical devices company Lombard Medical Technologies Plc plans an initial public offering on Nasdaq worth up to $80 million and intends to delist its shares in London, Reuters reported.
Shares of digital coupon company Coupons.com Inc (COUP.N) nearly doubled in their trading debut Friday, valuing the company at over $2.2 billion, Reuters reported. The company is majority owned by Passport Ventures, whose sole managing member is John H. Burbank III.
Shares of digital coupon company Coupons.com Inc rose as much as 84 percent in their trading debut on Friday, valuing the company at over $2 billion, Reuters reported.