Minnesota, US-based food processing firm Cargill purchased the Leonardo olive oil brand from New Delhi, India-based premium wellness food provider Dalmia Continental for an estimated price of INR100 crore.
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New York travel company Rocketrip bags $2.6M in Series A funding
New York, US-based travel management firm Rocketrip bagged $2.6 million in a Series A funding round led by Canaan Partners to accelerate its product development and to beef up its sales and customer services.
Former executive editor Bill Keller to leave New York Times for news startup
New York Times columnist and former executive editor Bill Keller will be leaving the American media firm to become the editor-in-chief of nonprofit news startup The Marshall Project on March 1.
Cornell entrepreneurs, professors say no startup bubble exists
Cornell University entrepreneurs and professors don't believe that a startup bubble is in the offing, despite what finance experts say, The Cornell Daily Sun reported.
Natural gas compression startup Simple-Fill receives tech grant from Ohio State-backed fund
Columbus, US-based natural gas compression startup Simple-Fill received an undisclosed amount of technology grant from the Technology Concept Fund, an investment fund backed by Ohio State University.
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Massachusetts, US-based enterprise solutions software provider quadrant Software bought Chicago-based Business Computer Design (BCD) Int'l and its British Columbia, Canada-based business partner ExcelSystems Software Development Inc (ESDI) for an undisclosed sum.
Leland Lim, a former partner at Goldman Sachs Group Inc, is planning to form his own hedge fund, according to sources with knowledge of the situation interviewed by Bloomberg.
The number of campaigns waged by activist investors to compel companies to pay more expensive prices for takeover targets has increased, the Financial Times reported.
As banks shed off their private equity units to comply with the Volcker Rule, the executives of these newly-independent firms will find themselves doing more travel in their search for new investors, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Proxy advisory firm ISS Inc has urged shareholders not to support the share buyback proposed by Carl Icahn to return more cash to its shareholders, Reuters reported.
RichRelevance Chief Executive Officer David Selinger gave three main reasons why the Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education or BPPE should not regulate coding academies in his guest post at VentureBeat.
New York, US-based hedge fund Libra Advisors will pick up a $7.2% stake in Auckland, New Zealand-based business developer Rubicon to support that latter's future forestry biotech project.
Venture capital firm Social+Capital Partnership has appointed its former Entrepreneur in Residence or EIR Ray Ko to serve as its first Growth Partner, TechCrunch reported.
Cambridge, Massachusetts-based firm MC10 made a bio-stamp that can take a person's vital signs and a head impact indicator backed by Reebok monitor for possible head trauma.
