African airline holding company Fastjet PLC said Lonrho Ltd, its largest shareholder, had put up for sale of its entire stake in the company. Lonrho would be raising GBP1.49 million from the exit.
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Venture capital-backed Tandem Diabetes Care raises USD120 million in IPO
Medical device company Tandem Diabetes Care raised USD120 million in its listing. The company had put up for sale 8 million shares of common stocks priced at USD15 each share.
Windsor Circle secures USD950,000 in Series A-1 funding round
Venture-back startup Windsor Circle obtained USD950,000 in its Series A-1 funding round. The software solutions and services company has now raised a total of USD2.4 million.
Hamilton Lane in talks to acquire Paul Capital
Secondary investment firm Hamilton Lane Advisor LLC is considering a buyout of private equity firm Paul Capital. The financial terms of the acquisition remains to be unknown.
Go Launcher maker Sungy Mobile nabs USD20 million before planned IPO
Two weeks after filing for an initial public offering, Go Launcher's parent company Sungy Mobile raised USD20 million in investment from Chinese antivirus software company Qihoo360 and Kingsoft.
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Despite Daniel Loeb's assurance that he or his hedge fund Third Point LLC does not have any plans to ouster FedEx Corp founder, chairman and chief executive Fred Smith, an analyst said
Sovereign wealth funds Korea Investment Corporation and Russian Direct Investment Fund pooled USD500 million for a cross-border private equity investment platform. The fund was intended to encourage trade and investment cooperation between South Korea and Russia.
Vale SA had sold the last of its 21.6% ownership in Norsk Hydro ASA following the sale of its non-core assets in order to focus on its more profitable business, which is in iron ore.
Search engine giant Google and private equity company KKR & Co. will be financing a solar power plant project for USD400 million. Six solar power plants were being built by Recurrent Energy LLC in California and Arizona.
The Game Show Network insisted that Bash Gaming pay a premium based from the difference between its initial acquisition offer and the amount the latter received from an unnamed buyer after Bash rejects GSN's deal at the last minute.
Playful jabs between heads of Gawker and Business Insider spurs potential merger, partnership rumors
Nick Denton and Henry Blodget played down rumors of a potential merger between blog collective Gawker Media and Business Insider in a media conference and discussed about a partnership using Gawker's Kinja comments platform.
Yahoo's old domain names might fetch lower prices that current retail prices on the domain names market due to the sale of new domain names with non-traditional extensions (gTLDs) by Donuts and GoDaddy, said VentureBeat.
Although the management of online advertising service Swoop did not disclose the purpose of raising new venture capital, Chief Executive Officer Ron Elwell's statement to TechCrunch indicated that the company might still be focusing on building its sales team.
Mexico-based food conglomerate Sigma Alimentos announced it plan to take over Spain's meat processing company Campofrio after it agreed to buy 40% of of the Spanish company from its current shareholders.
