Other Breaking News
In today’s CardFlash News Que: ARK (Bitcoin); IPC (Infinea X); NEXONIA (ratings); and HOUSECALL (funding).
NewsCred Funding
NewsCred, the leading content marketing software announced $42 million in growth equity funding to aggressively scale its global operations as the company serves the incredible demand for content marketing from enterprise brands.
Perks.com
CardWeb.com’s CardData database of Company Profiles today features Perks.com.
CashStar & Maritz
Prepaid specialist CashStar and Maritz Motivation Solutions have inked a strategic partnership to power Maritz Motivation Solutions’ digital gift card offerings. The CashStar Commerce platform now enables Maritz Motivation Solutions to offer personalized digital gift cards from leading retailers and restaurants to its program participants as a reward option.
CashStar
CardWeb.com’s CardData database of Company Profiles today features CashStar.
nopCommerce
Chicago-based Host4ASP.NET released 3 shared ASP.NET hosting packages at the beginning of its establishment. Recently, this web host launched 2 professional hosting solutions for nopCommerce online store owners, which are named as Advance and Business respectively.
CashStar Funding
CashStar, the industry-leading provider of prepaid commerce solutions has closed o $15 million in growth capital. FTV Capital led the Series D round, joined by new investor Mosaik Partners and existing investors Passport Capital, Intel Capital, North Hill Ventures and others. This financing brings the total capital raised by CashStar to $50 million and will enable the company to continue investing in product innovation, sales and client success.
Leveraged Issuers
Fitch Ratings has published the latest issue of its Capital Structure and Covenant Analysis for the 50 Largest U.S. Leveraged Issuers and thr average enterprise value/EBITDA market multiple for the Fitch 50 increased from 11x to 14.7x, far exceeding the average market valuation multiple across all sectors, which decreased from 10.2x to 9.9x.
RushMyBitcoin
SC-based RushMyBitcoin.com (RMB) is rushing to introduce Bitcoins to the general public with an exclusive introductory offer. For a limited time only, RMB will let Bitcoin newbies try a bite of their first bit”at no charge. The company calls it the “Get Familiar With Bitcoin” give-away, details of which are on its website.
Other Breaking News
In today’s CardFlash News Que: Westlake Financial (ACI); NCR (Waffle House); PaySimple (RainMaker); and Smart Aisle (Foodies).
CashStar & PayPal
ME-based CashStar has teamed with PayPal to integrate CashStar-powered digital gift cards from its large network of top retailer and restaurant brands in the eBay marketplace and the PayPal Digital Gifts store.
Blade Financial
Move over Xapo here comes Blade Financial, headed by the former GM of American Express’s prepaid card business. Blade Financial is the the first company to bring debit card programs directly to bitcoin businesses.