Hunter Walk and Satya Patel's creation of venture capital firm Homebrew was spawned out of the need to provide private equity investors accountability in their investments.
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Gazprom expands media business with Profmedia acquisition
Despite investor criticism it received for paying more investment attention on its non-core division, Gazprom announced on Tuesday in a joint statement that it had acquired Profmedia from metals tycoon Vladimir Potanin.
Take-Two's share buyback sees full Icahn exit
The resignation of billionaire Carl Icahn's director appointees in Take-Two Interactive Software Inc's board of directors was part of an earlier agreement should Icahn decide to sell his position in the video game publisher.
Nanex's charts threaten US trading on market regulation
According to a report by Bloomberg, the charts produced by market-data provider Nanex LLC caused the ire of some traders, who insisted that Nanex's charts caused unnecessary investor anxiety.
Wal-Mart CEO steps down; Chief of International Unit to take over
Wal-Mart CEO and President Mike Duke will officially step down on Feb 1, 2014 and will be replaced by Doug McMillon who is the head of Wal-Mart's international division. Duke will continue his role as Chairman and will be advising the new CEO for a year.
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In his interview with The Cornell Daily Sun, former analyst of private equity firm Blackstone and incoming associate of venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates Andrew Schoen explained why venture capitalists exist.
A Bloomberg report said the move to get former CBS anchor Katie Couric to join the team at Yahoo! Inc was an accelerated effort of Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer's efforts to reinvigorate the tech giant's business.
The move of former Shenzhen Development Bank Chairman Xiao Suining to a private equity company was not very common among top Chinese bankers, according to a report from the South China Morning Post.
Representatives from the German service sector Union Verdi, informed the public that they plan to walk out for at least one day on Monday. It has already organized several short strikes this year in a bid to force Amazon to accept a collective agreement on a dispute over pay and work conditions.
Abu Dhabi-based investment firm, The National Investor (TNI), has appointed a new chief executive officer to replace Orhan Osmansoy, who resigned after nine years at the helm, the company said in a statement on Sunday.
Matteo Stefanel, a senior partner at emerging markets-focused private equity firm Abraaj Group, has left the company, two banking and industry sources aware of the matter said.
The shutdown of Russian bank Master Bank was the central bank's most high-profile move yet under the leadership of Russia's first female governor Elvira Nabiullina.
The fund formerly known as Genesis Angels supported startups like Sirim, StoreDot Ltd and other chosen, early-stage startups in Israel via a combined investment of USD34.5 million.
A revelation from Semantria founder Oleg Rogynskyy disclosed that the partnership of the sentiment and text analytics services provider and Web scraping API developer Diffbot was born at a hackathon in San Francisco.
