Many buyout firms and manufacturing companies are eyeing the sale of Panasonic's healthcare unit.
Archives
Pay TV Operators to Bid for Hulu
Pay television operators amongst the bidders for Hulu. An anonymous source with direct knowledge of the transaction identified pay television operators DirecTV and Time Warner Cable as among the bidders, aside from Yahoo and the consortium led by Peter Chermin.
News Corp Splits Business
News Corp announced it is splitting its entertainment business from its publishing empire. (Photo : Brendan McDermid/Reuters)News Corp said on Friday it bought SportsTime Ohio, a Cleveland-based regional sports network that broadcasts Cleveland Indians baseball games.
Google's Quandary on its Waze Bid
Google may find itself in antiregulatory waters should it push its bid for Waze. (Photo : REUTERS)U. S. regulators closed a long-running investigation into allegations that Google tweaks search results to hurt rival companies without finding any wrongdoing, a decision that disappointed rivals and critics of the Web search giant.
Canadian dollar falls further
Canadian dollar falls against US greenback due to current trends. (Photo : Reuters)The image is a Canadian dollar bill, a twenty to be exact. The Canadian dollar fell to its lowest level against the US greenback with concerns that the gains achieved from the risky assets have outpaced the current economic growth.
Latest News
Google contemplating on acquiring Waze. The creator of the Android operating system, Google Inc. , is also contemplating on acquiring the free mobile navigation application, Waze Inc.
Hulu.com auction attracts more bidders. The private equity fund, Guggenheim Digital Media and former President of News Corp, Peter Chernin, have already tendered their bids for the online video service, Hulu Video, as related by sources who are knowledgeable of the matter to Reuters.
Computacenter is offering options to its shareholders for the return of investments, either through a class B share or a dividend amount.
Dai-ichi Life Ins. Co.,Ltd purchased 40% shareholdings in Panin Life of Indonesia worth 30 billion yen.
Mando China Holdings Halts IPO trading in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange citing 'adverse market conditions' and 'significant market volatility'.
Upon its ascension to the Premier League, Cardiff City is exploring an IPO for the club. Vincent Tan, the billionaire Malaysian, is in the planning stage of an initial public offer of shares of footbal club Cardiff City as early as this 2013.
InterOil is now in discussion with Exxon as to the development of gas fields in Papua New Guinea. InterOil Corp, the liquefied natural gas producer together with its joint venture, is now in exclusive negotiations with Exxon Mobil Corp in order to develop gas fields located in Papua New Guinea.
Prologis and Blackstone purchase warehouse space worth US$960 million. Prologis Inc and Blackstone Group LP have settled to acquire 17 million square feet of distribution centers and warehouses for an estimated US$960 million.
CPG International owners engages banks for its sale at a possible value of around US$1.5 billion. CPG International, the building materials maker, is being prepared by its ownership for a sale.
