Twitter Inc's prospectus filing on Thursday revealed its reliance in influential users like celebrities to be more relevant.

Shareholder Marvin Pearlstein filed a lawsuit against Blackberry Ltd and its top executives for providing false information about the company's financial position and business growth of its newest smartphone line.

Sources told Reuters that Silver Lake and TPG Capital LP, owners of hardware and software giant Avaya Inc, were contemplating on a sale of the company after plans for a public listing fizzled out.

The Washington Business Journal said Gannett Co Inc was able to raise USD1.25 billion in debt offering to fund its USD2.2 billion acquisition of Belo Corp.

Treasurer for Australia Joseph Hockey extended the time frame for Australian regulators including himself to decide whether the acquisition of GrainCorp Ltd by Archer Daniels Midland Co would go against the national interest.

Oracle Corp founder Larry Ellison agreed to give up 95% of his USD575 million payout from terms of a buyout agreement with Pillar Data Systems Inc in order to appease the software company's investors.

Rosneft deputy chairman Andrey Kostin said that even if the buyout of the minority share of TNK-BP Holding garnered criticism, the deal had followed good governance and legal practices.

Although Samsung Electronics Co released its projected operating profits for the third quarter, investors were becoming anxious about the company's ability to return cash to its shareholders.

A CNN interview revealed Susan Bennett as the voice behind intelligent personal secretary and navigator app Siri.

Barclays Plc (BARC) said in a statement that it had managed to sell around GBP472 million or USD761 million worth of rights issue stock.

In a website announcement, Adobe Systems, Inc. confirmed that a cyberattack accessed sensitive data of 2.9 million of its customers.

An Italian government official said on Italian radio that Finmeccanica had agreed to exit from its controlling stake in Ansaldo Energia.

A 47 year-old reclusive financier and private equity firm founder Suhail Rizvi would stand to gain from Twitter Inc's upcoming initial public offering.

China Minmetals managing director Gu Liangmin said the company would be careful about their decision to buy the Las Bambas copper mine of Glencore-Xstrata.

Severstal North America chief executive Saikat Dey told reporters in a conference call that the US arm of Russia's second largest steel producer would be focusing on getting the best returns for the company.

Owners of drug firm Ikaria had started working with banks on the possibility of selling the company.

Google Inc confirmed through a spokesperson that it had acquired Flutter, a startup company in development of a hand gesture interface technology.

Lavabit LLC founder Ladar Levison posted in Facebook his detailed account of how he had put up a fight with the US government in lieu of the company's to National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Industry sources told Reuters that several private firms and companies like Bloomberg News would face heavy competition in acquiring financial news provider Mergermarket.

In an interview fresh from its acquisition of Investors Capital Holdings Ltd, RCS Capital Corp Executive Chairman of the Board Nicholas Schorsch said his company would still be on the lookout for more potential buyouts.

The Wall Street Journal cited a source who said the Robinsons Retail Group of the Philippines had started testing investor demand in the company's planned USD800 million initial public offering.

Activist investor William Ackman told investors through a letter dated October 2 that he had reduced over 40% of his USD1 billion investment with nutritional supplements company Herbalife.

Multiple sources and data from purchasing contracts indicated that Intellectual Ventures had slowed down in its patent buying to raise USD3 billion in capital.

Credit analysts said that the divestment of DONG Energy's 26% stake to two funds managed by Goldman Sachs and two Danish pension funds may lead to a reassessment of its negative credit outlook.

Rosneft chief executive Igor Sechin said to reporters on Thursday that his company would be considering buying Lukoil's stake in its Venezuelan consortium.

Toshiba Corp chief executive Hisao Tanaka told Reuters that his company would decide on buying a major stake in UK nuclear venture NuGeneration.

Information technology news site Techcrunch said in a report that investment by venture capital firms in startups that are a least a decade old had been increasing.

In an announcement today, passenger travel search engine company Skyscanner announced that Sequoia Capital had placed investment commitments to the startup valued at USD800 million.

Information technology news site Techcrunch cited investors of biotech company Monsanto, who said the company had purchased Climate Corporation for more than USD930 million.

Citing the The Washington Post, Techcrunch said Amazon Inc Chief executive officer Jeff Bezos completed his acquisition of the 136 year-old newspaper today.