Typhoon Yolanda (International Name: Haiyan) devastated several provinces over the weekend as it cut across the Philippines packing gust winds of 275 kph.
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BT to show all UEFA games, leaving Sky in the cold
New broadcasting firm BT acquired exclusive rights to broadcast UEFA football games. BT had scored a coup in the multibillion pound sports broadcasting market.
NYSE now leading tech IPO listing race against NASDAQ
Since the Facebook bungle, Nasdaq had been hard pressed to recover to list more tech IPO stocks in its fold.
Twitter's IPO volume sends message to fellow start ups
Market acceptance at an IPO lull period is the message Twitter sent to all fellow start ups. The initial public offer of Twitter had sent a powerful signal to technology executives reviewing market floats of Silicon Valley startups.
Australia's asylum seeker agreement with Indonesia to be reviewed
A diplomatic stand off between Australia and Indonesia was averted when the Australian Immigration Minister had ordered the boat people be brought to Christmas Island.
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Data storage company Box, one of Silicon Valley's highly anticipated IPO candidates, has selected Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse and JPMorgan Chase & Co to lead a proposed initial public offering, according to three people familiar with the matter.
The private equity industry played a vital role in the initial public offerings that happened in the US so far for this year, according to an International Business Times report.
An Ernst & Young Global Limited report revealed that private equity has finally made a comeback in real estate markets after a five-year hiatus.
Deutsche Bank AG, Societe Generale SA and Harvest Global Investments now have China linked ETFs available.
The latest takeover bid was submitted by BNP Paribas SA for BGZ Bank in the Polish market that had seen mega million takeover deals in its banking industry.
Ernst and Young publishes its annual report on the real estate private equity sector. According to the publication Global Market Outlook: Trends in Real Estate Private Equity, the emergence from recession and its consequent effects signals the real estate private equity sector position for growth in 2014.
Renowned names in the wine industry join forces to create sales and marketing firm BCM Wineworks for the known brands of Bacchus Capital.
According to Moody's Investors Service, buyout firms would be targeting European retailers to take advantage of low funding costs.
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).
