The number of campaigns waged by activist investors to compel companies to pay more expensive prices for takeover targets has increased, the Financial Times reported.

As banks shed off their private equity units to comply with the Volcker Rule, the executives of these newly-independent firms will find themselves doing more travel in their search for new investors, The Wall Street Journal reported.

HTC Corp intends to expand its range of more affordable smartphones after the losses it experienced last year for its high-end product offerings, Reuters reported.

Proxy advisory firm ISS Inc has urged shareholders not to support the share buyback proposed by Carl Icahn to return more cash to its shareholders, Reuters reported.

RichRelevance Chief Executive Officer David Selinger gave three main reasons why the Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education or BPPE should not regulate coding academies in his guest post at VentureBeat.

Venture capital firm Social+Capital Partnership has appointed its former Entrepreneur in Residence or EIR Ray Ko to serve as its first Growth Partner, TechCrunch reported.

SportPursuit, a flash sales site based in the UK, nabbed £5M from its Series B financing round led by London-based venture capital firm DFJ Esprit and participated in by Silicon Valley Bank and angel investors, TechCrunch reported.

Google Glass is doing more roadshows to give the public and politicians the chance to try Google Glass and help remove the negative publicity that surrounds it, TechCrunch reported.

Brisbane, Californian-based women's retailer Bebe Stores Inc is thinking of selling the company and is reaching out to private equity firms, according to people interviewed by Reuters.

MassHousing, a self-supporting quasi public agency in Massachusetts, has closed $11.8 million loans to acquire and convert Sitkowski School to 66 affordable apartments for seniors, Boston.com reported.

Rengan Rajaratnam, the younger brother of Galleon Group Founder Raj Rajaratnam, has asked the US District Court in New York to dismiss charges of insider trading filed against him last year, Reuters reported.

As plans to look for a buyer for its chip manufacturing business fail, IBM is said to be looking for a joint venture partner for the operations, according to sources interviewed by Bloomberg.

Alleged Silk Road operator Ross William Ulbricht will have a November 3 trial date after pleading not guilty in a Manhattan federal court, Bloomberg reported.

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has approved two of President Barack Obama's proposed changes on the National Security Agency's surveillance of US telecommunications, VentureBeat reported.

CtW Investment Group has called for a revamp of the all-male Board of Directors of the Skechers USA Inc in order to prevent potential missteps, Reuters reported.

KKR, a private equity company, will be purchasing optical retailer National Vision based in Lawrenceville, Georgia for an undisclosed amount, The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported.

After losing a third of its value last week due to a ruinous blog post published about the firm by a Harvard Business School professor, Blinkx complained to a financial regular that it may have been the victim of a market manipulation, the Financial Times reported.

As crowdfunding continues to grow in popularity, its effect towards giving to more established and bigger charities have become a cause for concern among nonprofits, The New York Times reported.

Ten billion shares of common stock were offered by bitcoin firm Bitcoin Kinetics on the website Cryptostocks, Quartz reported. The startup intends to make hardware that enables vending machines to accept payment in Bitcoin.

State authorities in Florida have arrested and filed charges against three individuals who they alleged were doing illegal operations involving substantial amounts of Bitcoins, Krebs on Security reported.

According to economists, the poor jobs report will most likely not prevent the Federal Reserve from proceeding with the trimming of its monthly bond purchases, Bloomberg reported.

Direct Local Food, a farming industry-focused startup led by two women, aims to champion local food by linking farmers with restaurants and grocers, VentureBeat reported.

Shutterstock has now rolled out its support for 4K video, the format that is rapidly becoming a standard in the industry, with over 10,000 ultra high-res videos in its catalog, TechCrunch reported.

Fidelity Worldwide Investment's Head of Asian Fixed Income Sabita Prakash has left the firm, according to a source interviewed by Reuters and confirmed by a company spokesman.

A £28 million funding was given by the National Institute for Health Research or NIHR and its 50 partners to a health research initiative focused on the East Midlands.

Preliminary approval was given by the State of Maine Senate to LD 1512 which allows even residents that earn modest income to back potentially high-growth domestic startups, PressHerald.com reported.

Treehouse launches a online course that teaches students how to code and build websites and apps, has introduced a WordPress site-building course, VentureBeat reported.

Startups that intend to give Bitcoin investors protection from losses arising from hacking and theft have emerged from the phenomenal rise of the digital currency, Bloomberg reported.

Eight startups that graduated from the Fall 2013 class of StartX, the non-profit accelerator for entrepreneurs in the Stanford community, held a demo day in Silicon Valley, TechCrunch reported.

CircleCI was able to raise $6 million for its Series A funding round from DFJ, a venture capital firm, according to VentureBeat which cited a company blog post.