Twitter announced that it had set its IPO price at USD26 per share and will start trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday.

The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported on Wednesday The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported on Wednesday:Germany's Siemens agreed to sell the bulk of its water technologies business to private equity group AEA Investors for 640 million euros ($862 million).

Signal Hill Equity Partners closed its investment in Calgary, Alberta-based oil and gas engineering company OEL Projects Limited.

Canadian oil producer Penn West Petroleum announced that it will be selling up to USD2 billion of its assets to reduce debt levels.

Web security solutions firm Wallarm receives USD 500,000 in seed investment from Runa Capital. Runa Capital has made a USD 500,000 seed investment in Moscow, Russia-based web security solutions company Wallarm.

CIT Corporate Finance provided a senior secured credit facility worth USD 35 million to wireless communications towers operator Central States Tower II.

Pinterest analytics platform Tailwind scored USD 1 million in seed funds in a round led by i2e. Tailwind announced that it was able to obtain USD 1 million in seed financing.

Startup what3words raised USD 500,000 from angel investors to develop their location pinpointing platform.

Software-as-a-Service platform Granify obtained seed funds worth USD 1.5 million from venture capitalists and angel investors.

Icon Venture Partners I was an oversubscribed investment fund for the purpose of investments in companies in key enterprise technology sectors.