Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news:
HR/Employment
Monster Acquires Social Recruiting Technology Players TalentBin and Gozaik (via company press release)
HackerEarth Raises $500K To Help Startups Find Great Programmers (via TechCrunch)
Mobile
NYC’s Tracks renames itself after its photo-sharing app, Kanvas, and pulls in $1M (via VentureBeat)
Incubators/Accelerators
Bye, Bye Demo Day — Ignite100 Evolves Accelerator Model After Raising £700K To Run Three New Programs (via TechCrunch)
Commerce
Casper Raises $1.6 Million from Investors Including Lerer Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners (via company press release)
Video
Rovi to Acquire Veveo, Inc., and Combine Innovative Search and Recommendation Tools to Create Truly Differentiated Entertainment Discovery Solution (via company press release)
Security
CloudFlare buys StopTheHacker, wants to do anti-malware at scale (via GigaOm) (See StartUp Beat’s Q&A with StopTheHacker’s CEO from March, 2012)
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