Blackstone Group LP-backed hotel chain La Quinta Holdings Inc confidentially filed for an initial public offering (IPO) with the US Securities and Exchange Commission under the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act.
North America
Italian startup AdEspresso secures $500K seed funding to optimize Facebook ads for SMBs
Italian spin-off AdEspresso raised $500,000 in seed funding from institutional and angel investors, for its Facebook ad optimization service for small and medium businesses (SMBs).
Amazon.com offers customers gift cards, refunds after UPS delivery failure
Gift cards and shipping refunds were offered by Amazon.com Inc to appease its customers after UPS said it would not be able to deliver some packages by Christmas, Bloomberg reported.
SoftBank gets closer to buying T-Mobile -report
Japan-based SoftBank Corp is in final stages of talks with T-Mobile parent company Deutsche Telekom about acquiring the U.S.-based wireless carrier
KKR raises first real estate fund
Private equity company KKR & Co LP said on Tuesday it had raised a $1.5 billion real estate fund, its first dedicated investment pool for the asset class, which is rebounding in the United States amid a modest economic recovery.
Latest News
Morgan Stanley is selling its Indian mutual fund assets to a joint venture between India's HDFC and Britain's Standard Life, becoming the latest foreign asset manager to quit India.
Chicago-based media firm Tribune has entered an agreement to purchase Gracenote, the California-based music data unit of Japanese conglomerate Sony in a deal valued at $170 million, according to a statement by Tribune.
Tech giant Apple Inc have quietly acquired Silicon Valley's note-taking startup Catch and New Hampshire's digital mapping firm BroadMap a few months back, according to 9to5Mac.
In spite of the steep price cuts offered, consumers in the US did not do a lot of shopping in brick-and-mortar stores on the weekend before Christmas, Reuters reported.
CSI Holdco, a subsidiary of Canadian Solar Inc, has exited two solar power plants called the PSEG Shasta Solar Farm to PSEG Solar Source, subsidiary of Public Service Enterprise Group.
Hedge fund Elliott International, which owns a 25.16% stake in Celesio, said that reports suggesting it will accept McKesson Corporation's $8.3 billion bid for the German drugs wholesaler are incorrect. Elliott had irrevocably rejected McKesson's offer, saying that it undervalues Celesio.
Taminco Corp, the world's largest alkylamines and alkylamine derivatives producer, said it had agreed to acquire the formic acid business of Finland-based chemicals firm Kemira.
Tribune Co., which planned to split its newspaper division from its TV-broadcasting division in July, said that it intends to meet with Rep. Henry Waxman to dicuss his concern about the spinoff's impact on the Los Angeles Times.
Members of Boeing Co.'s union, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, plan to vote on a contract related to the production of the 777X on January 3. The said contract will ensure that the jetliners will be assembled in unionized facilities in Washington.
