Private company intelligence firm PrivCo predicted that Alibaba's valuation would be at USD110 billion should the company go public.

Marketing intelligence company Mintigo raised USD10 million in its recent funding to further growth in social data marketing and company sales.

One Group LLC, owner of the STK steakhouse chain, would be merging with Committed Capital Acquisition Corp, said a Wall Street Journal report.

Italian confectionery firm Ferrero said through its spokesman that reports about the company receiving acquisition offers were complete fabrications.

Twitter Inc hired former Google advertising executive J.J. Hirschle to head its retail advertising sales team days after Apple Inc announced hiring a retail division chief.

Singapore Exchange's provisions on Asiasons Capital Ltd planned share sale may endanger the investment firm's buyout plan in Black Elk Energy Offshore Operations LLC.

Managers of hedge funds said to Reuters the worry over the US government defaulting on its debt payments was not as dire as they had experienced during the days leading to the collapse of financial services firm Lehman Brothers.

According to a Techcrunch report, the initial public offering of enterprise cloud provider Veeva Systems saw its shares climbed almost 84% and had raised USD194 million.

500 Startups said in its recent US Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it would raise USD100 million to increase its investment in early-stage startups and put additional investment in startups it had already supported.

According to news agency AFP, video platform Dailymotion intended to continue with its acquisition and Asian expansion plans despite failed buyout talks between its parent company Orange and Yahoo Inc.

South Korean communication app maker Line would stand to be valued at USD8 billion should it go public, according to information technology news site The Next Web.

A Wall Street Journal report might have indicated that Apple Inc had sold more iPhone 5S units than the cheaper iPhone 5C units.

Vox Media would be raising USD40 million in investment funding to expand its editorial coverage by producing more video reports.

A total of USD163 million in cash was placed on eight acquisitions Yahoo Inc made during the third quarter this year, according to its recent earnings report.

Investors remained anxious even if US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew announced last week in Congress that the department had the capacity to pay US Treasury bill holders.

DBS Group Holdings had welcomed former Royal Bank of Scotland Group banker Rogerio Bernardo as its newest addition to its Singapore-based bond syndicate team.

Luiz Carneiro was fired as chief executive of his OGX Petroleo e Gas Participacoes SA by Eike Batista, whose commodity group owned the oil and gas company.

A regulatory filing by Softbank Corp had confirmed rumors of the Japanese company purchasing a stake in US mobile distributor company Brightstar Corp.

UK newspaper The Guardian had confirmed the departure of American journalist Glenn Greenwald, who is rumored to be joining a new media venture backed by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.

SundaySky, a smart video ad company, raised USD20 million in its Series C financing round led by Comcast Ventures.

Japanese firms Softbank Corp and games developer GungHo OnLine Entertainment had purchased a controlling stake in Supercell for USD1.53 billion.

Three NYSE Euronext executives, including Chief Financial Officer Michael Geltzeiler, would be leaving the exchange after the conclusion of its sale to IntercontinentalExchange Inc (ICE).

Investment firm Triton had stepped in as the possible buyer of Siemens AG's postal automation and baggage-handling division unit after Sun Capital dropped out of the bidding round.

Siemens AG's talks with equity group AEA Investors were at the advance stage regarding the German company's sale of its water technologies business.

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced via a Twitter post that Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) would be issuing a yuan-denominated bond on the London bourse next month.

According to an anonymous source who told Reuters, Air France-KLM was 50-50 on whether it would participate in the EUR300 million share issuance to save the Italian airline from bankruptcy.

In an announcement today, Russia's largest search engine company Yandex said it had acquired Kinopoisk, a movie review site, for an undisclosed amount.

Burberry Group announced in a statement on Tuesday that chief Angela Ahrendts would be leaving the fashion house next year.

British drugmaker AstraZeneca announced on Tuesday that it had purchased biotech company Spirogen in a deal worth USD440 million in total.

On Tuesday, the Burberry Group said chief creative officer Christopher Bailey would be adding another responsibility as chief executive officer in the middle of next year.