The benchmark debt from Russia has now been made available expecting a windfall after US Fed Reserve remarks on scaling back stimulus expenditures.

Microsoft allows Xbox music service to iOS and Android devices. In its latest move, Microsoft is allowing its Xbox Music service available to its Android and iOS devices in order to better compete with iTunes services from Apple, as well as Spotify Ltd and Pandora Media Inc.

GM George Steel found supporters in New York's Opera board for his demand for USD7 million for the year.

Tyres on the Drive scored GBP 1.5 million in a round led by MMC Ventures. Tyres on the Drive (TOTD) announced that it received an additional GBP 1. 5 million in a funding round.

Standard and Poor's analysts have criticized the practice of Scandinavian banks. The biggest banks of Scandinavia have failed to curb risks of financial innovation and would avoid downgrades unless national regulators requiring stricter measures, according ratings agency to Standard & Poor's.

The law firms provided able legal support to the American Tower and MIP Tower Holdings. The largest operator of cellular towers in the United States, American Tower Corp, had entered into an agreement to purchase the parent firm of its rival Global Tower Partners.

Apollo Global Management would be buying Evo Banco for USD 79 million. Apollo Global Management agreed to acquire Evo Banco for EUR 60 million or USD 79 million.

Krehbiel family-founded Molex had agreed to be bought out by Koch Industries for USD7.2 billion. On Monday, Koch Industries had agreed to acquire Molex for USD7.

LeapFrog Investments gathered USD 204 million in capital commitments for Fund II. LeapFrog Investments collected USD 204 million for its second fund in just eight months.

The Nigerian sovereign wealth fund's head was in the process of determining among eight asset classes which one should be in the fund's portfolio.