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Skyphrase consolidates with Yahoo in acquisition deal

Tech news site TechCrunch believes that Yahoo Inc's acquisition of natural language processing technology builder SkyPhrase is to improve its content delivery to its mobile audience.


Forest Labs to buy schizophrenia drug, cut costs

Forest Laboratories Inc, which is facing patent expirations on several of its biggest drugs, on Monday said it plans to buy rights to a new schizophrenia treatment from Merck & Co and cut annual operating costs by $500 million in fiscal 2016.

Wipro of India enters acquisition deal of Opus Capital Markets for USD75 million

Wipro Ltd announced today in a statement that it is set to acquire Opus Capital Markets Consultants LLC, a US-based mortgage services provider in order to expand its offerings to its financial services clients.

Dow Chemical said it will exit from assets worth $5B

Dow Chemical revealed its plans today to divest its USD5 billion worth of assets, which was way more than the range chief executive Andrew Liveris initially declared in October.


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London-listed Kolar Gold expects the Indian government to finalise details for the tender to run the historic Kolar mine before the end of 2013, it said on Monday, paving the way for what it hopes is the revival of Indian gold mining.
After more than two years since it filed for bankruptcy due to lack of cash and halting production, Swedish car automaker Saab AB via its parent company National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEV) AB started making cars today.
Apple Insider points out how the tech giant fared less than expected in light of analysts' predictions last year that it would hit a thousand per share.
Monday's announcement of executive promotions at Samsung Group stood out when the Group announced Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee's daughter, Seo-hyun, as a division president at holding company Samsung Everland Inc.
Stem Inc. today announced the closing of a $15 million Series B financing round. Iberdrola, GE Ventures joined Series A investor Angeleno Group in committing financing for the round.
Unilever attributes its declining sales to the slowdown in emerging markets, and Chief Executive Officer Paul Polman urges countries in these markets to create structured economic policies real soon.
Exceed Company Ltd, one of the leading domestic sportswear brands in China, today announced that it has entered into a definitive Agreement and Plan of Merger with Pan Long Company Limited
TransDigm Group Incorporated and Metalmark Capital announced today that TransDigm has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Airborne Systems Inc., for approximately $250 million in cash. Airborne Systems is owned by MetalmarkCapital.
Norwegian bank DNB ASA through its Chief Executive Officer Rune Bjerke rejected predictions on the country's housing market, saying that the claims were unfounded.
Switzerland bank UBS AG launched its EUR1.75 billion or USD2.4 billion bond buyback program, which will be applicable to subordinate and senior unsecured bonds in several European currencies.
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