Peter Thiel, the PayPal co-founder and Facebook Inc's first outside investor, is close to investing roughly $150 million in Airbnb in a deal that would value the lodging rental start-up at about $2.5 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
This week San Francisco-based self-publishing app Tactilize announced that it has secured $1 million in a funding round that included investors from Switzerland, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and France. The self-publishing service lets users create, share and sell content through its free iPad app.
Le site de e-commerce chinois Alibaba annonce avoir dépassé la barre symbolique des 1000 milliards de yuans de chiffre d'affaires (soit l'équivalent de près de 160 milliards de dollars) sur les 11 premiers mois de l'année 2012, ce qui représente déjà 58% de plus que pour toute l'activité 2011.