| Indonesia local govt picks investor for Newmont sale ), a local mining official said on Saturday. The governments of West Nusa Tenggara province, West Sumbawa regency and Sumbawa regency, the three areas where the mine is located, and ...[more] |
| Microsoft pitches Razorfish sale to 5 big ad companies: report ) is pitching to five of the world's biggest advertising companies a deal to buy Razorfish, its digital ad agency, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing executives familiar with the si ...[more] |
| Japan's Kirin and Suntory in merger talks: Nikkei ) and smaller unlisted rival Suntory Holdings Ltd are in talks to merge and create one of the world's largest beverage and food firms, the Nikkei business daily reported on Monday. ...[more] |
| Dhaka tells Boeing will honor $1.27 bln buy deal Under the deal, which was signed in April 2008 under the army-backed interim government, Boeing is to supply four 777-300ER aircraft to the state-owned Bangladesh Biman Airlines by 2013 and f ...[more] |
| Venture CEO tells Centrica to pay above 900p/shr "The feedback we have got from shareholders, both the institutional ones and the significant ones on our board, suggests that many of them are looking for significantly above 900 pence," Mike ...[more] |
| Samsung-Bosch battery venture to buy U.S. Cobasys ) and Germany's Robert Bosch, will buy U.S. battery maker Cobasys, Samsung SDI said on Tuesday. Details including the value of the acquisition were not disclosed. (Reporting ...[more] |
| Facebook gets $6.5 billion valuation with share sale Russia's Digital Sky Technologies said it will pay $14.77 a share for Facebook common stock, boosting its stake to as much as 3.5 percent and valuing Facebook at about $6.5 billion. W ...[more] |
| Belgium's RHJ in advanced talks to buy Opel ) said on Monday it was in advanced talks to buy a majority stake in General Motors Corp's GMGMQ.PK European unit Opel. RHJ's statement confirms a second rival to leading Opel conte ...[more] |
| CIT survival ensnared in regulatory battle The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, which insures deposits at U.S. banks, opposed an attempt by the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve to rescue the lender by granting it access to a gov ...[more] |
| McGraw-Hill trying to sell BusinessWeek: source McGraw hired boutique investment bank Evercore Partners Inc to manage the sale, said the source, who was familiar with the situation but not authorized to discuss it publicly. McGraw ...[more] |
| Venture capital funds shrink to 13-year low The National Venture Capital Association said the amount committed to those 25 funds plummeted to $1.7 billion, the lowest since 2003, when $938.1 million was raised. That compares with $4.6 ...[more] |