Honda Motor Co's stake sale in Honda Elesys Co would encourage the cooperation of the company and its buyer Nidec Corp in capitalizing the growing demand for car electronic controls.

Private equity firms had been seen selling its ownership stakes in small and medium companies in China to gain back equity.

CVC Capital Partners would be acquiring a 69% ownership stake in Chinese restaurant chain South Beauty Investment Co Ltd for USD300 million, sources said.

The hiring of two new Energy Future Holdings Corp board directors was seen as timely as the power producer needed to decide on making its USD270 million interest payment before November 1.

The source said China Construction Bank Corp's acquisition of BicBanco would be the easiest step in securing a license to expand in Brazil.

The USD60 million raised in NextDoor's Series C financing round would go towards hiring additional software engineers to develop its core product.

A filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission showed that the holding company of Chinese app maker GO Launcher planned to get listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Former Co-operative Group chief executive Barry Tootell said he and other company executives had doubts over the capability of the mutual fund to acquire 632 Lloyds Banking Group branches for USD750 million.

Intellectual Ventures (IV) wanted to collect a combined USD310 million in patent licensing fees from security firms Symantec and Trend Micro.

BP Plc's recent quarterly report showed a bright investor future amid an overall glum oil and gas industry.

An anonymous People's Bank of China (PBOC) official had met with local money dealers in the bank's efforts to stave off investor worry about rising short-term rates.

OGX would be filing for bankruptcy should it not be able to meet interest payments to bondholders amounting to USD44.5 million.

A Wall Street Journal report cited sources who said Morgan Stanley plans to seek approval from the US Federal Reserve regarding its plans to widen its share repurchase program.

Petróleo Brasileiro (Petrobas) was reportedly nearing the completion of its Peru-based asset sale to China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC).

Electricite de France (EDF) and Veolia Environment said on Monday that both were coming close to agreeing the terms of their exit in Dalkia.

IMF department director Anoop Singh said Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic stimulus program had helped the economy of Japan against the effects of the reduction of securities purchases by the US Federal Reserve.

Proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis believed that Thompson's role as chief executive of one of Microsoft's suppliers could create a possible conflict of interest in his position in the Board of Directors.

The consolidation of Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller was a natural progression when there were only a few markets to tap, said industry analysts.

Google Inc had not been shy investing large amounts of capital in data centers to improve its Internet infrastructure.

Apple Inc's iPhone 5C had yet to challenge the dominance of Samsung Electronics and other companies using Google Inc's Android software in the cheaper smartphone market.

Analysts said the European Commission's approval of Actelion's lung disease drug would have potential investors bid for the Switzerland-based drugmaker.

A rival of Google Inc was not satisfied with the search giant's latest proposal to address antitrust complaints.

California-based startup Paxata has aided scientists in grueling data preparation leading to work analysis.

General Electric decided to exit from its local banking unit for an undisclosed amount. On Monday, Sovcombank had signed an agreement to acquire General Electric's local banking unit.

Stratoscale's core product promised to make data center processes more efficent. Two entrepreneurs recently secured a USD10 million investment for its large data center software product.

Despite the negative press Bitcoin received due to the Silk Road black market scandal, industry observers believed that there would be a renewed investor interest in digital currency.

Airbnb co-founder and CTO Nate Blecharczyk said the company was not interested in releasing financial information, including its USD200 million investment round held a year ago.

A total of USD545 million in capital commitments was raised from five cornerstone investors included Chow Tai Fook Enterprises Ltd and China Vanke Co Ltd.

AMC Networks was set to own international content business Chellomedia for USD1.04 billion. According to AMC Networks Inc, it would be purchasing the international content business of Liberty Global Inc.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said he thought that there was no need to upgrade to any of the new iPads as he was perfectly fine with his iPad unit for the moment.