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Tech companies answer to trading season lull - report
Consumer web companies had been filling the IPO lull typically experienced during the holiday season, said Reuters.
Private equity seen flourishing in real estate markets - Ernst and Young
Private equity investors such as the Blackstone Group resorted to new means of investing in real estate as property prices dip.
France government to loan EUR4.5 billion to pay Credit Lyonnais debts by year-end - French official
The government of France had taken plans to pay debts incurred from the collapse of Credit Lyonnais, said a Reuters report.
Yellen to defend Fed's bond-buying program at US Senate
Although US Federal Reserve Vice Chair Janet Yellen would be getting a backlash in the Senate due to her employer's bond-buying program, Louisiana Republican David Vitter was confident Yellen would replace Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke.
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As the process to close the Fiat-Chrysler merger ongoing, automotive news site Autocar observed that Fiat had stopped its development plans on its Alfa Romeo vehicle series.
Prefundia's crowdfunding platform would now be accepting project proposals from the public. According to a report by tech news site Techcrunch, crowdfunding platform Prefundia was now opening its doors to the public after three months in beta.
The Central Bank of Ireland assured the public that it had been pursuing an alternate solution to bail out Newbridge Credit Union after talks of a merger with Naas Credit Union had failed.
Chairman emeritus and ex-chief executive of Orrick Ralph Baxter confirmed that his law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP had been in negotiations to decide on a potential merger.
A Forbes contributing article by an economist said Twitter's massive hype could not save itself from faring better on the stock market in the long-run.
Celine Dion, the pop music diva, had gone on record to clarify that the rumors of her death on Facebook are untrue and are hurtful to her close-knit family.
Maria Gabriela Isler was crowned 2013 Miss Universe in Moscow, Russia. A former television host from Venezuela was crowned Miss Universe 2013 last Saturday.
Germany's coalition government formalized a measure to provide funds and expertise for a European bank to manage the loan agreements and if necessitated, closure of banks.
New broadcasting firm BT acquired exclusive rights to broadcast UEFA football games. BT had scored a coup in the multibillion pound sports broadcasting market.
Deutsche Bank AG said that new rules would not foster business but in the past week alone it had agreed on a couple of business related loans.