Nuance Communications bought SpinVox for $102.5M which was a combined $66M in cash and $36.5M in stock. This purchase was a steep decrease from the rumored $150M Nuance was considering, and an especially low amount when compared to the roughly $200M already invested in the company.

So it seems Twitter has gone holiday shopping by buying Mixer Labs, the developer of GeoAPI.

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Chegg.com, the Netflix of the textbook rental industry, raised an unprecedented $57M in a recent round of fundraising. The exorbitant amount bucks the trend of depreciated investing and valuations by venture capitalists in a struggling economy hinting at a possible resurgence of confidence and investing.