Most large firms usually hunt for technologies and talent to boost their offering and products and this week was no different for search giants like Yahoo and software companies like McAfee. Yahoo acquired two startups but will shut them down because it needs just the mobile talent behind those startups. McAfee is paying $389M for firewall products which is understandable because McAfee develops software security products.

These are the 13 startup funding and acquisitions we spotted this week.

1.  Yahoo acquired two companies–Milewise and GoPollGo–both companies will be shut down whilst employees join Yahoo mobile team. Financial details of the two, separate transactions were not announced. GoPollGo is  a real-time polling tool that lets brands and media properties collect and analyse feedback whilst MileWise is a flight rewards app.

2. NetSuite  acquired OrderMotion, a developer of software used for B2B and B2C billing, ordering, and fulfillment. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced by the company.

3. Eleven-month-old startup Coinbase  raised $5M in a venture capital funding round. According to WSJ it’s the largest funding round to date for a Bitcoin startup. The $5 million investment was led by Union Square Ventures.

4. HealthTap, which operates an online and mobile service which lets users ask doctors health questions, secured $24M in a Series B funding. The funding was led by Khosla Ventures.

5. San Francisco-based real estate site Trulia  acquired Market LEader, a provider of customer relationship management (CRM) software for the real estate industry. Trulia said it would pay approximately $355M.

6. About.me, an online service which lets users create their own, one-page profile about themselves on the Internet acquired Wefollow, an online directory of people other users can follow from their interests.

7. YouEye, which operates a facial recognition-driven, user testing service for web designers, scored $3M in a funding round. The round came from Bobby Yzdani, Brian McClendon, and Beth McClendon.

8. Chute, a developer of software to power the photo sharing and social infrastructure for mobile app developers,  raised $7M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Foundry Group.

9. CircleUp, which operates an online, crowdsourcing site aimed at consumer companies, raised $7.5M in a Series A funding. The firm said the funding was led by Union Square Ventures.

10. Google Ventures, the venture capital arm of  Google, snagged away MG Siegler from CrunchFund, naming Siegler a General Partner at the firm. According to Google Ventures, Siegler will focus on seed and early stage investments.

11. Clustrix, which develops cloud-based SQL databases, secured $16.5M in a Series C funding round. The funding came from Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners, ATA Ventures, and Don Listwin.

12. LiquidSpace, a startup which operates a marketplace for empty desks and meeting space (think “Airbnb for office space”),  raised $1.3M in new, Series B funding.

13. Santa Clara-based security software developer McAfee, which is owned by Intel, acquired Stonesoft Oyj, a developer of firewall products. McAfeee said it will pay approximately $389M in cash for Stonesoft, which is based in Helskinki, Finland.

At the age of 15, Nick D’Aloisio created the Summly app at his home in London. It started with an insight — that we live in a world of constant information and need new ways to simplify how we find the stories that are important to us, at a glance. Mobile devices are shifting our daily routines, and users have changed not only what, but how much information they consume. Yet most articles and web pages were formatted for browsing with mouse clicks. The ability to skim them on a phone or a tablet can be a real challenge — we want easier ways to identify what’s important to us.

Summly solves this by delivering snapshots of stories, giving you a simple and elegant way to find the news you want, faster than ever before. For publishers, the Summly technology provides a new approach to drive interest in stories and reach a generation of mobile users that want information on the go.

Summly originally started as a prototype app called Trimmit, which soon garnered attention and seed funding from Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-Shing’s investment firm. In no time, it had a range of other investors, receiving up to $1.5 million from Ashton Kutcher, Zynga’s Mark Pincus, Automattic’s Matt Mullenweg and Airbnb’s Brian Chesky.

Summly has nearly a million users since its December 2011 launch.

Nick and the Summly team are joining Yahoo! in the coming weeks but the young Nick D’Aloisio has signed on for only 18 months.

Last week Yahoo purchased of Jybe, a social recommendation company.

To help you fly through your email,  the Mailbox team redesigned the inbox to make email light, fast, and mobile-friendly. The app lets you quickly swipe messages to your archive or trash. You can scan an entire conversation at once with chat-like organization. Snooze emails until later with the tap of a button.

Mailbox will still run as a separate, standalone application. In a blog post, the Mailbox team stated ” Since launching last month, our service capacity has grown 2000x and we’re already delivering more than 60 million emails a day. That’s mind-bending growth for only a few weeks, and we’re just getting started.

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston told the WSJ that his company felt it “could help Mailbox reach a much different audience much faster.” Houston told the WSJ that Dropbox will use Mailbox’s tech to improve its own features, including handling email attachments.

Drew and Arash said in a blog post:

After spending time with Gentry, Scott, and the team, it became clear that their calling was the same as ours at Dropbox—to solve life’s hidden problems and reimagine the things we do every day. We all quickly realized that together we could save millions of people a lot of pain.

Dropbox doesn’t replace your folders or your hard drive: it makes them better. The same is true with Mailbox. It doesn’t replace your email: it makes it better. Whether it’s your Dropbox or your Mailbox, we want to find ways to simplify your life.

“Whether it’s your Dropbox or your Mailbox, we want to find ways to simplify your life.” Drew said.

Under the deal, the 13 employees of Mailbox owner Orchestra Inc.–including alums of Apple, Stanford University and Ideo–will join Dropbox. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed but the price of the deal is rumored to be around $100 million in cash and stock.

# Influitive  raised $7.3M in a Series A funding round. The round came from Hummer Winblad and Relay Ventures, along with Lightspeed Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Illuminate Ventures, Resolute.VC, Common Angels, and other angels.

# Duetto Research, which develops forecasting software for the travel and hospitality industry,  raised $10M in a Series A funding. The funding was led by Battery Ventures and Altimeter Capital, and also included Thayer Ventures, Trinity Ventures and Marc Benioff of Salesforce.com.

# Storage technology developer Exablox  raised $22M in two rounds of funding. The firm said the funds came after completing oversubscribed Series A and Series B funding rounds.

# Nor1, a developer of pricing and merchandising software used to help upsell hotel and resort amenities, raised $9M in a Series B funding, the company said today. The funding was led by Concur, the developer of travel and expense management software.

# Fitstar  raised $5M in a seed funding round, to build a digital health and fitness platform. The funding was led by Google Venturs, and also included Advancit Capital, and FLOODGATE Fund.

# LUMO BodyTech, a developer of sensors, devices, and software which monitors a user’s posture to help improve back health and reduce back pain, raised $5M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Madrona Venture Group.

# Signifyd  raised $2M in a seed funding round, for developing a risk and fraud prevention platform for online e-commerce customers. The funding came from Andreessen Horowitz, Data Collective, IA Ventures, QED Investors, Resolute.VC, Tekton Ventures and other angels.

# Puribus Networks, a developer of network virtualization hardware aimed at private and public cloud infrastructure, raised $23M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Menlo ventures.

# Grockit, an online site which helps students with test prepration for such tests as the GMAT, SAT, ACT, LSE, and GRE, raised a strategic funding round, according to the company today. The investment was led by Discovery Communications. Size of the round was not announced, however, reports place the funding at around $20M.

# San Francisco-based Plivo, a developer of telephony APIs, raised $1.75M in a seed funding round. The round came from Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Qualcomm Incorporated and SV Angel.

# TrueLens, a developer of social data and marketing analysis tools, secured $1.2M in a funding round. The funding round was led by Google Ventures, and also included Charles River Ventures, Common Angels, 500 Startups and Boston Seed.

# Green Throttle Games  raised $6M in a Series A funding. The firm said the round was led by Trinity Ventures, and also included DCM. Green Throttle Games is a developer of video games, and also makes a wireless game controller.

# ScaleIO, a developer of software-only, virtual storage area network (SAN) products, scored $12M in a funding round. The round came from Greylock Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, and others.

# Poshmark added $12M in a Series B funding, to help bolster its mobile marketplace for fashion. The firm, which is led by Manish Chandra, said the new funding was led by Menlo Ventures, and laso included Mayfield Fund, Inventus Capital, and SoftTech VC.

# CipherCloud raised $30M in a funding round, from Andreessen Horowitz, which will go towards expand its sales and marketing, including expanding in Europe.

# BioCision, which develops tools for the life sciences research and clinical research market, raised $2.5M in a growth financing round. The round came from BroadOak Capital Partners, along with Research Corporation Technologies, Inc.

# learStory secured $9M in a Series A round, led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The firm also said its prior, seed backers, which include Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures, participated in the funding.

# Prismatic raised $15M in a Series A funding round. The round came from Accel Partners, Jim Breyer and Yuri Milner, among others. Prismatic develops software which looks to understand what topics and news a user is interested in, and finds news, videos, and more for those users.

# Cloudera raised $65M in a funding round. The round was led by Accel Partners, and also include Greylock Partners, Ignition Partners, In-Q-Tel, and Meritech Capital Partners. Cloudera develops Apache Hadoop software used for big data projects in the enterprise market.

# Bidgely, a developer of energy analytics software used to help consumers better understand their energy usage on an appliance-by-appliance level,  raised $3M in a Series A funding. The funding came from Khosla Ventures.

# AutoGrid, a developer of software for analyzing smart meter and energy usage information for utilities, scored $9M in a funding round. The round came from Foundation Capital, Voyager Capital, and Stanford University.

# WalkMe, a developer of software to develop online, on-screen walkthrough guides for websites,  raised $5.5M. The  round was led by Gemini Israel Ventures also included Mangrove Capital Partners and Giza Venture Capital.

# Mobiplex, a developer of golf motion analysis software and accessories, said this morning that it has raised $3.1M in a Series A funding round. Name of its investors were not disclosed.

# Helpshift, a new startup focused on mobile customer support, scored $3.2M. The seed financing round was led by True Ventures and Nexus Venture Partners.

# ItsOn, a developer of mobile technology whose team helped developed the LTE and WiFi 802.11N standards, raised $15.5M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, and also included SV Angel and Silver Lake Partners.

# Glassdoor, which operates an online service that lets people browse and anonymously provide information about salaries and benefits at companies, has raised $20M. The firm said the new funding was led by DAG Ventures, and also included prior investors Benchmark Capital, Sutter Hill Ventures and Battery Ventures.

# iSocket  raised $8M in a Series A round.  iSocket’s software tools are used by online publishers to manage premium display advertising on their web sites. The round was led by Foundry Group, and also included Costanoa, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, SoftTech VC, Accelerator, Quest, and Blumberg Capital.

# LocBox, a developer of email marketing software for small businesses, secured $5.1M in a Series A funding round, the firm said today. The round was led by InterWest Partners, and also included Google Ventures, Accel Partners, and 500 Startups.

# Big Switch Networks, a startup providing virtual infrastructure which lets customers define their networks using software, raised $25M in a Series B funding, the company said today. The funding was led by Redpoint Ventures, and also included Goldman Sachs, Index Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and others.

# Y Combinator graduate Zapier scored a $1.2M, seed funding round, which came from Bessemer Venture Partners and Draper Fisher Jurvesten, along with angels.

# Flurry, the mobile analytics and advertising firm headed by Simon Khalaf,raised $25M in a funding round. The round was led by Crosslink Capital and also included former investors Menlo Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, InterWest Partners, Union Square Ventures, First Round Capital and Draper Richards.

# Neo Technology, which develops open source database tool Neo4j,  raised $11M in a Series B funding round. The funding came from its existing investors, which include Fidelity Growth Partners Europe and Conor Venture Partners.

Message Bus, a provider of cloud-based messaging APIs and software for sending email and mobile messages, raised $11M in a funding round. The round was led by North Bridge Venture Partners.

UrbanSitter, a startup which is hoping to make it easier for parents to find a babysitter, secured $6M in a Series A funding round. The San Francisco firm said that the round was led by Canaan Partners.

Referly, which operates a site which pays users affiliate fees for linking to and referring others to products,  scored $1M in a seed funding, the firm disclosed Monday. The funding came from New Enterprise Associates, Ignition Partners, 500 Startups, as well as angels.

Gridstore  raised $12.5M in a Series A funding round, for its storage technology. The funding was led by GGV Capital and ONSET Ventures, and also included its existing investors.

4INFO, a provider of mobile advertising products,scored a $5M line of credit, according to Avidbank Corporate Finance. Terms of the financing were not announced. Avidbank said the loan will be used for working capital. 4INFO provides SMS-based alerts, mobile search, and other mobile advertising products.

Splice Machine, which develops SQL-compatible database aimed at the big data market, raised $4M in a Series A round. The round came from Mohr Davidow Ventures.

BloomReach, which develops “big data” marketing applications, raised $25M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by New Enterprise Associates, and also included Lightspeed Venture Partners and Bain Capital Ventures.

Validity Sensors, a developer of fingerprint sensors and technology, scored $20M in a Series E funding round. The round was led by TeleSoft Partners, and also included prior investors Crosslink Capital, Panorama Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, and Venture Tech Associates.

Intacct, the developer of cloud-based accounting and financial management software,  raised $13.5M in a new funding round. The financing include both equity and debt.

Inigral, a developer of a Facebook app which helps universities better predict the interest of prospective freshmen in their schools,  raised an additional $3.25M in funding. The funding came from Retro Venture Partners and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

FundersClub, which operates an online site which streamlines and automates the process of making angel investments,  raised $6M in a seed funding round. The funding came from Y Combinator, First Round Capital, Chris Dixon, and Aaron Levie.

MongoHQ, a provider of hosted MongoDB database service, scored $6M for funding, the firm disclosed earlier this week. The firm–which has offices in Mountain View, and was part of Y Combinator’s Summer 2011 class–said the round was led by Trinity Ventures.

#DataStax, a developer of enterprise, “big data” software, scored $25M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Meritech Capital Partners.

# Insightly, a developer of customer relationship software for small businesses, secured $3M in a financing round. The round came from Emergence Capital Partners.

# Dyn, a provider of domain name service (DNS) and email services,  raised $38M.. The round was led by North Bridge, and also included Borealis Ventures.

# Buuteeq, a developer of digital marketing software for boutique hotels,  raised $10M in an investment round. The  funding came from Madrona Venture Group and from software firm Concur.

# NGDATA, a developer of big data analysis software,  raised $2.5M to open up new offices in San Francisco and New York. The funding came from ING, Sniper Investments, Plug and Play Ventures and angels.

# thredUP.com, which operates an online service which helps parents resell their kids outgrown clothing, secured $14.5M in a Series C financing round. The round was led by Highland Capital Partners, and also included Trinity Ventures and Redpoint Ventures.

# Jelli  raised $9M in a new funding. The round was led by new investors Intel Capital and Relay Ventures, and also included prior investors First Round Capital and angel Roger Ames (EMI Music). Jelli operates an online, social radio platform which engages listeners with crowd-sourced playlists and game mechanics.

# Rainstor, a developer of database technology for the big data market, scored $12M in a Series C funding round. The round came from Credit Suisse and Rogers Partners.

# Trifacta, a developer of visual software for the big data market, raised $4.3M in a funding round. The round came from Accel Partners, X/Seed Capital, Data Collective.

# Expect Labs, which develops MindMeld, a group voice calling app for the iPad, scored $2.4M in a funding round, the firm disclosed this week. The round came from KPG Ventures, Google Ventures, and Greylock Partners.

# San Francisco-based Netpulse, a developer of entertainment systems which connect into exercise treadmills, raised $15.6M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by August Capital.

# Wi Harper Group, which focuses on Chinese venture capital investments,  led an investment into Chinese online advertising tracking firm AdMaster. Size of the funding was not disclosed.

# Los Altos-based Box, the provider of online data storage and sharing applications, said this morning that it has raised $125M in a funding round. $100M of the round came from General Atlantic.

# 9GAG, an online comedy and humor site,  raised $2.8M in a seed funding round, the company said Monday. The round came from Freestyle Capital, True Ventures, First Round Capital, Greycroft Partners, 500 Startups, Scott Banister, Chris Sacca, and David Tisch.

# Pinfluencer, a developer of analytics software which analyzes the traffic from Pinterest social network,  raised $1.4M in a seed funding. The round was led by Freestyle Capital and Baseline Ventures.

# QuickPay Corp., which develops mobile parking payment products,  raised $3.5M in a seed funding round. The firm said the funding came from Fontinalis Partners, Andreessen HOrowitz, and Advanced Technology Ventures.

# Cyphort, a developer of cloud and appliance-based security products,  raised $7M in a Series A funding round. Funding was led by Matrix Partners, and also included Foundation Capital.

# Intel Capital, the venture capital arm of chip giant Intel, has backed a French marker of motion processing and data fusion software for the consumer electronics industry. Grenoble, France-based Movea  raised  $7.95M US from Intel Capital, iSource, and GIMV.

# Getaround, which operates an online, peer-to-peer marketplace for car rentals and sharing raised $13.9M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Menlo Ventures.

# Personalized Retailing Inc, the firm behind children’s personalized ecommerce site FabKids, raised $2.6M in a Series A funding round.

# Gild, a developer of HR and recruiting software,  raised $2M in a seed funding round. The round was led by Globespan Capital Partners, and also included angel Mark Kvamme.

# FiveStars, which is developing a unified, loyalty card which can be swiped at multiple retailers,  raised $13.9M in a Series A funding, the company said Thursday. The round came from Lightspeed Venture Partners and DCM.

In a statement released by Wildfire, the company said: “Today we are about to start a new chapter of our story and we couldn’t be more excited to share the news: Wildfire is joining Google! We truly could not think of a more perfect home for Wildfire. It makes us so happy to know that joining with Google will make it easier for us to realize our vision of changing the way the world markets and enable us to live up to our commitment to make Wildfire an incredible place for our team and our customers.”

Reuters has reported that Google paid about $250 million for the business, according to a person familiar with the deal. The source is not authorized to speak publicly about the transaction and requested anonymity.

AllthingsD has indicated that Google will integrate Wildfire into its growing display advertising “stack,” which is anchored by DoubleClick and Google’s AdX exchange.

Founded  in 2008, Wildfire has about 400 employees and powers social media marketing for more then 16,000 businesses, including 30 of the top 50 global brands.