Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news, from around the web:
Mobile
Appsee gets $1M for brilliant mobile spying tools (via VentureBeat)
Google buys Android optimizer FlexyCore for $23 million (via CNET)
Marketing
Teads Lands $5.2Million Series A Investment (Press Release) (via company blog)
Health/Healthcare
We’ve Helped 4 Million People Find Doctor and Raised $2.6M in Seed Funding (via company blog)
Health Startup Noom Receives NIH Grant To Study Smartphone Tech In Eating Disorder Treatment (via TechCrunch)
Soylent Closes $1.5M In Seed Funding From Lerer, Andreessen Horowitz (via TechCrunch)
Content/Publishing
Unbound raises £1.2 million to fund growth of writers-based crowdfunding platform (via growthbusiness.co.uk)
Commerce
eBay acquires Shutl, plans to expand same-day delivery to 25 cities (via GigaOm)
Cloud
Threat Stack nets $1.2M to protect your cloud servers (via GigaOm)
Data
CoolaData Closes $7.5m Series A Round (via company blog)
Cloud/Storage
Cloud file management company Openera bought by LiveQoS for its file compression tech (via VentureBeat)
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