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New Crowdfunding Game Makes Startups the Stars, Prepares Players for A New Kind of Investing

MicroVentures today announced the launch of MicroVentures Investor Challenge. MicroVentures today announced the launch of MicroVentures Investor Challenge — a Facebook game in which real startups like AirBnB, Etsy, and Pinterest compete for a player's virtual investment.


GE Antares Capital Provides $405 Million Credit Facility to Tank Holdings Corp.

GE Antares served as administrative agent on a $405 million senior credit facility to support the acquisition of Tank Holdings Corp.

SecureNet Payment Systems Announces Additional $18 Million Growth Investment led by Sterling Partners

Sterling Partners has led an additional $18 million growth equity investment in SecureNet. SecureNet Payment Systems, a leader in payment processing technology, announced today that Sterling Partners, a leading growth-oriented private equity firm with approximately $5 billion in assets under management, has led an additional $18 million growth equity investment in SecureNet.

Private Equity Firm Acquires SensiQ Technologies from FLIR Systems

SensiQ Technologies, Inc. has been acquired by private equity firm TechVen Partners, and will seek to aggressively expand the market reach of its Label-Free Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) devices for biomolecular interaction analysis.


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After decades roaming the world in search of lower costs, U.S. manufacturers are finding that factories at home can compete with China, In dia, Mexico and other low-cost countries.
South Korea's Woongjin Holdings Co has opted to team up with a local private equity fund to buy a 31 percent stake in water purifier maker Woongjin Coway Co Ltd.
Asana, a Silicon Valley start-up, has lined up $28 million in a financing round led by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and his Founders Fund.
U.S. network equipment maker Cisco (CSCO.O) won unconditional EU regulatory approval on Tuesday for its $5 billion takeover of TV software developer NDS.
Private equity firms Carlyle Group LP (CG.O) and BC Partners Ltd have joined forces and are in advanced talks to buy United Technologies Corp's (UTX.N) industrial businesses.
China plans to double the amount insurers can invest in private equity and allow them to trade financial derivatives both at home and abroad.
Bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals involving European, U.S. and Asian companies. The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals involving European, U.
Because of weakness of export to Europe and real estate, flocks of migrant workers in eastern China are returning back home.
China’s A Stock market underperformed persistently, and most of stock traders think the reason why Chinese stock market is the most bearish should be too many IPOs.
State oil company CNOOC plans to buy Canadian rival Nexen Inc for $15.1 billion State oil company CNOOC plans to buy Canadian rival Nexen Inc for $15. 1 billion, a deal which if successful would be China's biggest foreign corporate takeover and a test of Ottawa's tolerance of outside interest in its resources.