A Bloomberg report said China's richest man Wang Jianlin may be acquiring luxury brands such as the Four Seasons hotel chain in his quest to expand his company Dalian Wanda Group to the US.

A source told Bloomberg that a unit of Goldman Sachs and two Denmark-based pension funds were close to purchasing a stake in Denmark utility Dong Energy.

A Reuters report said that Japanese-based firm Toray Industries Inc would be purchasing US-based company Zoltek Companies Inc for USD584 million.

Porvair purchases Thomas Cain and forges deal with Thermo Electron. Filtration and environmental technology group Porvair Plc have announced last Thursday the acquisition of Thomas Cain Inc.

Automattic, Inc, parent company of open source blogging and content management system service WordPress, announced in a blog post that it had acquired content sharing technology startup Cloudup with no financial details disclosed.

TVV Capital's acquisition of Pitonyak Machinery Corp serves to complement an earlier acquisition for the buyout firm.

In a statement today, ebay Inc announced that it had agreed to acquire Braintree for around USD800 million in cash.

American Industrial Partners would be acquiring Flow International Corporation in a deal worth more than USD 200 million.

In a Bloomberg report, the news agency said that Applied Materials Inc Chief Executive Officer Gary Dickerson's dedication to close his company's USD9.39 billion Tokyo Electron Ltd acquisition would lead him to, according to sources, move his family to Tokyo.

Founders of the Eurasian Natural Resources Corp (ENRC) won 95.99% in shareholder approval on the takeover of the company.