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A report from the Wall Street Journal said payment startup Square Inc was thinking of going public next year.

Twitter announced that it had set its IPO price at USD26 per share and will start trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday.

Investors such as Qatar Holding and Fairfax Financial have picked up sizeable amounts of BlackBerry's USD1 billion convertible debt offer.

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).

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Canadian oil producer Penn West Petroleum announced that it will be selling up to USD2 billion of its assets to reduce debt levels.

CIT Corporate Finance provided a senior secured credit facility worth USD 35 million to wireless communications towers operator Central States Tower II.

Pinterest analytics platform Tailwind scored USD 1 million in seed funds in a round led by i2e. Tailwind announced that it was able to obtain USD 1 million in seed financing.

Software-as-a-Service platform Granify obtained seed funds worth USD 1.5 million from venture capitalists and angel investors.

Icon Venture Partners I was an oversubscribed investment fund for the purpose of investments in companies in key enterprise technology sectors.

Bain Capital Ventures, Battery Ventures and Summit Partners contribute a total of USD30 million in the latest funding round of Gainsight.

METRIX Capital Group closed its latest funding round at USD5 million in pledged amounts for its alternative loan program.

Zemanta's content discovery and audience development tools have raised funding from Union Square Ventures and Social Starts in the amount of USD2 million.

Propane supplier NGL Energy Partners LP acquires Gavilon LLC for its midstream supply business. NGL Energy Partners LP, the propane gas supplier, announced it would purchase Gavilon LLC, a pipeline company.

Appboy planned to market its mobile relationship management platform product to international markets.