"During 2011 we also successfully completed Apollo's initial public offering, expanded our platform through a number of organic and strategic initiatives, and raised a significant amount of new investment capital, bringing total assets under management to a record level of over $75 billion," Leon Black, the company's chief executive, said in a statement.
Sharon Baylay, general manager of Microsoft's online services, said: "This acquisition will play a significant role in the future growth of our search business and presents a huge opportunity to expand our platform business beyond the UK and globally".
In the next year our goal is to further expand our platform, adding new 'webscale' capabilities across every channel.
Fuentes tells me the new money will go towards "hiring a couple folks, expanding our platform to make it better, and improving our user interface".
"Expanding our platform to authors and readers outside the U.S. has been one of the most frequent requests we've received since we launched.
"We closed the round in late December 2017 and are using it to accelerate sales and marketing and further expand our platform so development teams can assure the best possible user experience at the speed of continuous delivery," he said.
With more than 80 Yelp cities around the world today, consumers are yelping about their favorite local businesses in record numbers and we look forward to continue expanding our platform around the globe".
"Small businesses are the engine of the global economy and we are continuing to expand our platform to help them compete and win online, in-store and via mobile," said PayPal president and CEO Dan Schulman in a statement.
"The new capital enables us to accelerate our growth by doubling-down on establishing our iconic brand, expanding our platform strategy and growing the Tile community, which already locates more than two million items every day across 230 countries and territories," he tells TechCrunch.
This was an opportunity for us to build out a bit of a war chest that we will look to use in investments to expand our platform beyond just television and online but into other media, as well as expansion overseas, and acquisitions.
"Today we're measuring all of the core gaseous pollutants that are regulated as well as the core climate change gases… We are not only deploying and expanding our platform's availability but in our R&D efforts investing in next generation sensing technologies, whether it's the tiniest PM2.5 sensor in the world to on our roadmap really having the ability to speciate VOC [volatile organic compounds].
