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Ancestry.com weighs sale, seeks buyers -Bloomberg

Family-history research website Ancestry.com Inc is thinking of putting itself up on the block and is working with Frank Quattrone's Qatalyst Partners to find buyers.


TPG shuffles Asia team ahead of new $5 bln fund

TPG Capital has shuffled its Asia senior management team TPG Capital has shuffled its Asia senior management team as the global powerhouse with $48 billion in assets fights for investor dollars in the region with private equity rivals KKR, Carlyle and RRJ Capital.

Blackstone ups bet on Asia hedge fund manager Taylor

Blackstone Group has raised its exposure to former Citadel trader Nick Taylor by putting up another $50 million to co-invest with his Asia-focused hedge fund.

Deals of the day -- mergers and acquisitions

Bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals involving European, U.S. and Asian companies. The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals involving European, U.


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Ceptaris Therapeutics, Inc has raised $10 million through a Series D-1 private placement of preferred stock.
Dedicated Media has secured a $5 million credit facility with Wells Fargo’s Technology and Venture Banking Group.
Donuts Inc has moved assertively to expand Internet namespace with 307 applications for new and varied generic top-level domains (TLDs) in various character sets.
Today Facebook’s price declined further, closed at $25.87 per share, down 3.83%. Today Facebook’s price declined further, closed at $25. 87 per share, down 3.
Thomas H. Lee Partners has struck a deal to buy control of Party City in a deal that values North America's largest retailer of party goods at $2.69 billion.
The value of hotel deals for the first five months of 2012 came to $5.1 billion, down from $6.4 billion a year earlier.
A flock of "vulture" funds is gathering in Madrid in the hope that a banking sector shakeout will finally deliver a bonanza of real estate and distressed company assets at rock bottom prices.
Asia's share of global private equity investments has doubled to 21 percent in the past four years, helped by last year's strong growth and that figure should continue to rise, a top McKinsey & Co executive told Reuters.
Bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals involving European, U.S. and Asian companies. The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals involving European, U.
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Technology is in the process of closing a fundraising round that will value it at $4 billion - almost half of Nokia's (NOK1V.HE) market capitalization.