According to a report on Benzinga by Tim Melvin, individual investors may want to heed to private equity firms' strategies with regard to investing assets, citing the industry's record gains it posted last year.
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Big-name mutual funds in Wall Street suffer a decline in emerging markets
Mutual funds managed by the biggest names in Wall Street like BlackRock, Brevan Howard and T. Rowe Price, are showing poor performance with the decline in the emerging markets, an analysis from Reuters said.
Veteran venture capitalist Anne DeGheest warns of bubble in health IT
HealthTech Capital Founder and veteran venture capitalist Anne DeGheest warns that there is a bubble forming in information technology for the healthcare industry in an interview with The Wall Street Journal's blog Venture Capital Dispatch.
Data reveals venture capital investment soaring in January
Venture capitalists seem to be gearing up for a very hectic year as they poured $5.8 billion in new companies in January, representing an increase to the $3.5 billion made last year, TechCrunch reported.
African mineral exploration poised to drop amid lack of funding sources
African mineral exploration activity is poised to drop by 15% to 20% in 2014 as sources of funding have dried up due to difficult economic problems, according to David Cox, senior sales executive of SNL Metals Economic Group.
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Social media giant finally rolled out its Graph Search feature to mobile devices one year after it was introduced, to give users an easier way to mine data and achieve cleaner results from a random set of words used in the search.
Facebook is looking to steal the "second screen" crown from Twitter as the two social giant networks scramble to offer the best coverage of the National Football League (NFL) teams' clashes in the Super Bowl XLVIII.
Analysts told Bloomberg that the increases in chief executive officers of the top banks in the US usually means that the banks had performed above expectations.
High-end luxury brands might be able to demand their preferred deal prices as Asian, Middle Eastern and private equity buyers scramble to acquire a share in the profitable luxury goods market.
The mergers and acquisitions activity in the Southeastern portion of the US rose 17% last year, according to data from Mergermarket Group news service, The Tennessean reported.
Interest in lower end market deals in Europe by foreign investors had been seen growing, according to the latest data released by Mergermarket. Almost a third of the 169 deals involving foreign investors seen last year were made in the UK, with Germany and Spain a distant second and third.
Flappy Bird, a mobile game created by Hanoi-Vietnam-based developer Dong Nguyen of dotGears Studios, hit the top spot of free mobile apps in the Google Play and iOS app stores, mainly because it is very challenging and frustrating.
A venture capitalist is urging Asian investors to consider placing bets in evergreen funds, and said that these type of funds are a good fit for them.
A surge in hiring former Wall Street professionals to top positions in sports leagues such as NFL has been seen in recent times, thanks to the fact that sports leagues like the NFL are billion-dollar generating enterprises.
