First Solar has been notified of an unsolicited offer by TRC Capital Corporation to purchase up to 2 mln shares of the outstanding First Solar common stock at a price of $30.00 per share in cash

GE Capital, Franchise Finance recently provided $4.4 million to Romulus Restaurant Group GE Capital, Franchise Finance recently provided $4. 4 million to Romulus Restaurant Group, an IHOP franchisee for the acquisition of six stores in Oklahoma.

Santacruz Silver Mining enters into C$30 Million bought deal common share financing Santacruz Silver Mining Ltd. (TSXV: SCZ) entered into an agreement with a syndicate of underwriters led by Canaccord Genuity Corp.

Investcorp acquires North America's leading information security solutions provider, Fishnet Security

TPG Capital to acquire eze castle software and realtick from ConvergEx; newly formed company, eze software group, to acquire tradar

Apperian today announced that the company has received a strategic investment from Intel Capital Apperian, Inc. today announced that the company has received a strategic investment from Intel Capital, Intel's global investment and M&A organization.

Pearson made its about $89.5 million in cash investment in nook media at a post-money valuation of about $1.789 billion

Watson Pharmaceuticals today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Belgium-based Uteron Pharma SA for $150 million in cash up front

Bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals on Wednesday The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1330 GMT on Wednesday: - Cisco Systems Inc said it will buy Israeli software maker Intucell for about $475 million in cash to expand its mobile network management offerings.

The union and pension fund for Hostess Brands Inc has hired Gordian Group to help preserve jobs and workers' benefits at the bankrupt maker of Twinkies snack cakes.

Yahoo Inc said on Tuesday it has bought "social news" start-up Snip.it Yahoo Inc said on Tuesday it has bought "social news" start-up Snip.

Kamylon Capital has sold its ownership interest in Innovadex to Underwriters Laboratories Boston based, Kamylon Capital, has sold its ownership interest in Innovadex, LLC, to Underwriters Laboratories.

Ribbit Capital Launches Inaugural Fund with Four Initial Investments Ribbit Capital, a new Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm, has set its sights on changing this by raising a significant amount of venture funding that will be aimed singularly at driving innovation around the world in lending, payments, insurance, accounting, tax preparation and personal financial management.

Toyota is nearing an agreement to license its fuel-cell vehicle technology to BMW Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp is nearing an agreement to license its fuel-cell vehicle technology to Germany's BMW AG BMWG.

Newfoundland Capital Exploring the Sale of Alberta Broadcasting Division (Photo : IVCPOST) Corporation Limited (TSX: NCC. A, NCC. B) announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Newcap Inc.

Spirit Realty will merge with Cole Credit Property Trust II to create a commercial real estate firm with a combined value of $7.1 billion.

European Medgold acquired the Grasceta gold exploration licence, located in southern Tuscany Medgold Resources Corp. (TSX-V: MED), the European focused gold exploration company, announced today that it acquired the Grasceta gold exploration licence, located in southern Tuscany, Italy.

Prosper said on Tuesday it raised $20 million from venture capital firms stepping up competition with rival Lending Club.

Fixmo today announced that it has received a strategic investment from Samsung Venture, the venture capital arm of the Samsung Group

Vision Critical today announced the acquisition of DiscoverText, a robust cloud based text analytics solution

130 million euro loan backing PAI Partners' acquisition of a majority stake in Italian eyewear company Marcolin has closed oversubscribed, banks said in a statement.

Verizon on Tuesday posted weaker-than-expected wireless operating profit margin due to hefty costs from the sale of smartphones like Apple's iPhone

AT&T will purchase the operations in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $780 million (Photo : REUTERS)Reflections are seen in the window of an AT&T store in New York Atlantic Tele-Network, Inc.

TD Ameritrade said quarterly net income fell 3.4 percent from a year earlier but beat analysts' expectations on record new assets from clients.

Intuit responded today to a decision of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that prevents the Internal Revenue Service from regulating non-professional tax return preparers.

Progenics Pharmaceuticals today announced that it has acquired Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals Acquires Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals to expand oncology-focused pipeline Exchanged about 4.

TD Ameritrade gathered record net new client assets of $16 billion - up more than 50 percent from the same quarter a year ago.

Mergers under review by the European Commission and a brief guide to the EU merger process. (Photo : REUTERS)The European flag fly in front of the European Parliament in Strasbourg October 12, 2012.