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Grey Area Gets $2.6 Million To Build Out Location-Aware Gaming Business

Feb 24, 2011 7:38 AM

Nokia’s stock may have dipped to 1998 levels in the last few days on worries about its new smartphone strategy with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), but there are some good-news stories coming out of Finland’s mobile world, too. Grey Area, the Helsinki-headquartered, location-based social mobile game developer, has announced that it…

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Posted In: Entertainment, Games, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Countries, Europe, Finland, grey area, index ventures, initial capital, london venture partners

Updated: Path Picks Up $8.65 Million; Reaches Two Million “Moments”

Feb 2, 2011 10:03 AM

Photo sharing app Path has secured a Series A round of financing worth $8.65 million, with investment from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Index Ventures and Asian VC firm Digital Garage Japan. 

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Posted In: Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Photo Sharing, Companies, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, dave morin, digital garage, index ventures, kpcb, path

Boku Raises $25 Million To Expand Mobile Payments Services

Jan 19, 2010 7:00 AM

San Francisco-based Boku has raised a sizable round of funding totaling $25 million to build a mobile-payments company that they believe can one day compete against financial institutions, like Mastercard, Visa, and even online providers, like Paypal. The year-old company has partnered with wireless carriers around the world to let…

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Posted In: E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Media, Virtual Worlds, benchmark capital, boku, dag ventures, index ventures, khosla ventures

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