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).
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Private equity firm Fortissimo Capital submits winning bid for Israel's software company Eshbel
Fortissimo Capital, a private equity fund, won the bid for Israel-based Eshbel with NIS 192 million after the software company was put on the auction block.
Moody's: Potential acquisition of Woori Investment & Securities is credit negative for both NongHyup Bank and WIS
Moody's Investors Service says that the announcement on 24 December by Woori Finance Holdings Co., Ltd. (WFH) that NongHyup Financial Group Inc. (NH FG) is the preferred bidder to acquire Woori Investment & Securities Co Ltd
Co-founder abandons bid to acquire BlackBerry
BlackBerry co-founder Mike Lazaridis has officially dropped his plans to purchase the firm via a joint bid with a fellow co-founder as new management struggles to turn the troubled company around.
Spate of hotel IPOs underscores revival of hospitality industry- report
A report said the wave of hotel initial public offerings of Blackstone Group showcased a resurgence in one of the sectors that suffered the most during the recession, the hospitality industry.
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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.
India-based supermarket operator is thinking of holding an initial public offering when the privately-held chain will draw near its first profit, a Bloomberg report said.
Dubai Islamic Bank said on Wednesday it would increase its foreign ownership limit to 25 percent from 15 percent.
Italian insurer Unipol said it had received an offer to buy the insurance business with 1.7 billion euros ($2.3 billion) worth of premiums which it must sell to meet conditions set by the local competition watchdog to clear its merger with peer Fondiaria-SAI.
Title insurer Fidelity National Financial will sell a number of its databases to meet U.S. charges its proposed $2.9 billion acquisition of Lender Processing Services Inc hurt competition, the Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday.
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
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.
Torq Energy Logistics, an affiliate of privately held Torq Transloading Inc, said on Tuesday that private equity firm KKR & Co has agreed to invest C$250 million ($236 million) to fund Torq's capital program and acquisition strategy.
Asian markets took cheer on Tuesday after Wall Street rang up more records and upbeat U.S. spending data burnished the outlook for the global economy, with Japan's Nikkei hitting a 2013 high after Tokyo markets opened after a holiday.
