VENTURE CAPITAL POST

The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported on Monday

The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported on Friday

The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported on Thursday.

The new owner of Hostess Brands Inc's snack cakes hopes to have Twinkies back on U.S. store shelves by this summer, according to a member of the purchasing group.

STMicroelectronics and Ericsson have failed to find a buyer for their loss making wireless electronic chip joint venture and will now consider whether to close the business down, news service Bloomberg said on its website.

Shares of Sharp Corp were untraded with a glut of buy orders on Wednesday after sources said South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is set to invest $110 million in the Japanese company.

The Tokyo Stock Exchange on Wednesday said it had halted trade in the shares of Sharp Corp until it can confirm media reports of a third-party investment in the Japanese consumer electronics maker.

The contentious $15.1 billion takeover of Canadian oil and gas company Nexen Inc by Chinese state-owned entity CNOOC Ltd closed on Monday

The following are mergers under review by the European Commission on Monday.

McKesson Corporation announced that today it completed the previously announced acquisition of PSS World Medical, Inc. for a total purchase price of approximately $2.1 billion.

Illumina today announced it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Verinata Health

Property will be redeveloped with a new Hannaford Supermarket

Business software maker Compuware Corp is exploring a sale and talking to buyout firms to gauge takeover interest

VINCI today announced the signature, with the Portuguese government, of the contract to acquire the shares of ANA

Kabel Deutschland declined to comment on potential interest from UK-based mobile operator Vodafone to buy the German cable network operator.