Placemeter, a company that uses community sensors to map real world objects, has raised $6 million in Series A funding. The round was led...

AirStrip, a company that provides clinical mobility solutions, has raised $25 million in a funding round. The investment was led by the Gary and Mary West Health Investment Fund, Sequoia Capital and Wellcome Trust. Existing investors in the company, including Sequoia Capital, Hospital Corporation of America and Qualcomm also participated in the round, along with new investors Dignity Health, St. Joseph Health, and Leerink Partners.

Swift Navigation, a San Francisco-based startup building centimeter-accurate GPS technology, has raised a $2.6 million seed round led by First Round, with participation from Fall Line Capital, Felicis Ventures, Kal Vepuri, Lemnos Labs, Qualcomm, through its venture capital group, Qualcomm Ventures, and VegasTechFund.

Qualcomm has elected Harish Manwani to its board . Mr. Manwani currently serves as the chief operating officer at Unilever, and is a member of the Unilever leadership executive team, which comprises the company’s top management. Mr. Manwani sits on the board of Whirlpool, Pearson, and serves as the non-executive chairman of Hindustan Unilever.

OnePlus has launched the CyanogenMod-based OnePlus One cell phone. What is umm CyanogenMod? "It is an enhanced open source firmware distribution for smartphones and tablet computers based on the...