Oliver Chang, head of U.S. housing strategy at Morgan Stanley is leaving his firm to start his own buy-to-rent housing fund.

The owners of Getty Images Inc, the largest supplier of stock photos, video and other digital content, have retained bankers to examine a possible sale or public offering of the business, a person close to the matter said Tuesday.

SAP has announced a $4.3 billion takeover of Ariba to expand its cloud computer services. SAP, the German business software giant, has announced a $4. 3 billion takeover of Ariba to expand its cloud computer services.

European scientists are testing robot “fish” which can detect pollutant at the Northern Spanish port of Gijon on Tuesday, according to Reuters.

Harris Williams & Co. Advises Silverchair Learning Systems, LLC in its Sale to Vista Equity Partners.

American Spectrum Realty, Inc. is in discussion with several parties to sell or spin-off to one or more joint venture partners its property management and tenant-in-common (TIC) businesses.

Facebook's lackluster initial public offering performance is a black eye for many on Wall Street and could have ramifications for similar upcoming deals such as an offering by Twitter.

Private equity group Bridgepoint has hired Morgan Stanley to sell Aenova, hoping to get more than 400 million euros ($510 million) .

mergers under review by the European Commission and a brief guide to the EU merger process. The following are mergers under review by the European Commission and a brief guide to the EU merger process:APPROVALS AND WITHDRAWALSNoneNEW LISTINGSNoneEXTENSIONS AND OTHER CHANGES-- Finnish group Outokumpu to acquire German group ThyssenKrupp's Inoxum stainless steel unit (notified April 10/deadline extended to Sept.

Morgan Stanley expressed caution of Facebook’s revenue in the filing of an amended prospectus with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC).

Private equity firm CVC Capital CVC.UL has sold a $1.6 billion stake in Formula One to three investors.

Bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals involving European, U.S. and Asian companies. The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals involving European, U.

Accor is to sell its troubled U.S. budget hotel business for $1.9 billion to private equity group Blackstone.

U. S. private equity firm Warburg Pincus WP. UL along with existing investors have pumped $32 million in fresh funds into Indian online classifieds firm Quickr, the e-commerce company said on Tuesday.

Private equity firm TPG Capital agreed to jointly buy bankrupt apartment developer Joint Corp with property consultancy Savills.

The region of Abu Dhabi will establish a presence of a major, global studio for the first time, with Digital Domain Media Group planning to have a studio of animation, visual effects and motion capture and a media school.

Colorado start-up UrgentRx today has closed on a $3 million Series B round of financing, lead by Los Angeles-based venture capital fund JUMP Investors.

enVision Capital has selected rapidly growing restaurant supply chain company SpenDifference, LLC for its first investment.

Chinese Internet entrepreneur Jack Ma's Alibaba Group is buying back up to half of Yahoo Inc's 40 percent stake for $7.1 billion.

South Africa's Vodacom said it will fight a court ruling that it must pay $21 million in consultancy fees or submit to the mandatory sale of its shares in its joint venture in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Motor racing business Formula One will start pre-marketing for its up to $3 billion Singapore initial public offering on May 22.

Galaxy S3 is set to first release in Germany on May 29, and then in UK on May 30, followed by U.S. June 1.

Google Chrome has become the world’s top browser, surpassing Internet Explorer in recent weeks. Google Chrome has become the world’s top browser, surpassing Internet Explorer in recent weeks, according to a report of statcounter.

Yara has agreed with Orica and Apache to form joint ventures to build a 330,000 metric tons ammonium nitrate (TAN) plant on the Burrup peninsula.

Uzbekistan has signed a deal with a consortium of foreign banks to obtain loans worth a total of $2. 54 billion to build a gas and chemicals complex on its Surgil field, state oil and gas company Uzbekneftegaz said.

News and developments in Asia private equity from Reuters News for the week ending May 18. News and developments in Asia private equity from Reuters News for the week ending May 18.

Private equity group Nordic Capital said on Monday it has bought Sport-Master, Denmark's largest sporting goods chain, continuing a string of recent deals in the region's buoyant buyout market.

Bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals involving European, U.S. and Asian companies. The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals involving European, U.

DIFC Investments has not sold software company SmartStream Technologies but the process is under way.

Israel's IDB Development Corp agreed to sell 49.9 percent out of its 60.5 percent stake in Clal Industries and Investments (CII) to U.S.-based Access Industries .