Yandex purchases Russian-language movie website to expand search business

In an announcement today, Russia's largest search engine company Yandex said it had acquired Kinopoisk, a movie review site, for an undisclosed amount.


AstraZeneca purchases Spirogen for USD440 million

British drugmaker AstraZeneca announced on Tuesday that it had purchased biotech company Spirogen in a deal worth USD440 million in total.

Creditors of Energy Future fight over equity split

Secured lenders at Texas Competitive Electric Holdings and unsecured bondholders at Energy Future Intermediate Holdings (EFIH) were in a deadlock about their confidentiality agreements due to Energy Future Holdings' USD250 bond debt payments due on November 1.

VEBA pegs Chrysler stake at USD3.6 billion

VEBA Trust pegs shareholdings at USD3.6 billion. The healthcare trust affiliated with the United Auto Workers union had finally placed a price tag on the worth of its shares in Chrysler Group.


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KKR purchases Mitchell International from Aurora Capital for an undisclosed amount. Aurora Capital is a private equity firm managing over USD2 billion of assets based out of Los Angeles.
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In order to block the bid of Sinochem, OVL and Shell filed notice of purchase on the USD1.543 billion oil block interest from Petrobras.
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TRAFI, a Lithuanian Journey planner startup, received a USD500,000 in investment capital from Practica Capital to expand into key markets unexplored by big players like Google Maps.
The lenders fighting over the titles owned by the Deccan Chronicle would be in dispute. The creditors of Deccan Chronicle Holdings unable to recover dues worth more than INR5,000 crore because of a dispute over the publishing titles.
Naveen Jindal is the latest personality included in the ownership dispute of Positiv TV. Congress Member of Parliament and Industrialist Naveen Jindal was recently included in an ownership dispute between the shareholders of Positiv TV.