Argentina-based investment group Corporacion America reached an agreement to buy the stake of entrepreneur Eike Batista in SIX Semicondutores, a Brazil-based billion-dollar semiconductor project, for an undisclosed sum.
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Austria-based automotive software firm Incadea raises €14M to fund RCRBS acquisition
Salzburg, Austria-based automotive retail software provider Incadea PLC raised around £11.5 million (€14 million) through issuance of ordinary shares to partially fund the acquisition of Germany-based firm RC Real Business Solutions GmbH (RCRBS).
California-based secretive startup founded by ex-Pentagon employees wants to impede hackers
Shape Security, a Mountain View, California-based secretive cybersecurity startup founded by former Pentagon employees, wants to slow down hackers using software that scrambles website codes.
US education startup Tales2Go bags $750K seed funding for audiobook app
Marlyand, US-based education startup Tales2Go bagged $750,000 in a seed funding round led by NewSchoolds Venture Fund and Maryland Venture Fund to improve students' listening fluency through a "Netflix-like" audiobook app.
Colombia's Grupo Energy picks up $650M stake in Peru gas pipeline
Colombia-based firm Grupo Energia de Bogota inked a deal valued at $650 million to acquire a 23.61% stake in Peru-based gas pipeline operator Transportadora de Gas del Peru.
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New York, US-based electronic trading firm Virtu Financial Inc filed confidential documents for an initial public offering (IPO), according to sources familiar with the situation.
California, US-based application performance management firm New Relic Inc named Square Inc Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Sarah Friar as the new member of its board on its path to a potential initial public offering (IPO).
Tel Aviv, Israel-based social review engine Yotpo raised $10.7 million in a Series A funding round led by US-based venture capital firm Blumberg Capital to expand its office in San Francisco.
Photo pinning social site Pinterest bought San Francisco-based image recognition startup VisualGraph for an undisclosed amount to automatically detect items pinned on the site and to tailor future ads.
The healthcare unit of Connecticut-based conglomerate General Electric Co (GE) agreed to acquire several life-science assets from Pennsylvania-based laboratory firm Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc in a deal that totals $1.06 billion.
China-based firm Harbin Bank is planning to file for a $1 billion initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong within January, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Illinois-based snack company Mondelez International Inc has entered an agreement to sell a controlling stake in its cookie and cracker business, SnackWell's, to Connecticut-based private equity firm Brynwood Partners for an undisclosed amount.
Brazil-based fixed-phone company Embratel Participacoes will pour in BRL2.2 billion ($944 million) into Mexico-based mobile phone company Claro as part of a plan to merge the group's fixed and mobile divisions.
Online bitcoin wallet Blockchain.info bought ZeroBlock, a bitcoin-related mobile app, for an undisclosed amount in an acquisition deal that was conducted entirely in bitcoin, according to a ZeroBlock founder.
