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Global Eagle Acquisition appoints John Lavalle as CEO

Global Eagle Acquisition appoints John Lavalle and Louis belanger-martin to top management positions upon closing of business combination


Moves in Private Equity Industry

Financial services industry appointments were announced on Thursday The following financial services industry appointments were announced on Thursday. JANUS CAPITAL GROUP INC The global investment company said Seiji Inagaki joined its board on Jan.

Entrepreneurs plan D.C. road trip to talk up immigration reform

The skilled-worker visa reform the entrepreneurs want is relatively uncontroversial San Francisco-based entrepreneur Garrett Johnson is usually too busy with his messaging start-up for much travel, but one issue has inspired him to cross the country: immigration reform.

Russian Billionaire Prokhorov Nearing Deal to Sell Polyus Gold Stake - sources

Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov's Onexim company is close to agreeing the sale of a stake in Polyus Gold


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Oral Cancer Prevention International and CDx Laboratories recently merged to become CDx Diagnostics.
The Federal Reserve noted a sharp increase in borrowing loans from banks in November. The borrowing figures increased by $16 billion when compared to October.
The White House on Friday tried to rescue stalled talks on a fiscal crisis after a Republican plan imploded in Congress, but there was little headway as lawmakers and President Barack Obama abandoned Washington for Christmas.
One day after Rajat K. Gupta, formerly of Goldman Sachs, was sentenced to two years in prison for insider trading, a lawyer for Raj Rajaratnam who is currently serving an 11-year sentence in a Massachusetts prison for the same crime, asked that his conviction be set aside, The New York Times reported.
U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff sentenced the former Goldman Sachs director to two years in prison for insider trading and fined him $5 million in a Manhattan court room yesterday.
Following a scandal involving the former co-Chair of the high-end online and retail furniture store, Restoration Hardware, the company is planning to sell 5.2 million shares in an Initial Public Offering, The New York Times reported in Dealbook, based on papers filed Tuesday.
Judge Betty Binns Fletcher, of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, died Monday night as reported by the Associated Press. As one of the country's first women lawyers, Fletcher knew discrimination firsthand and fought for the rights of the oppressed.
The couple has officially broken up after three months of dating, Sanchez's rep confirmed to US Weekly Tuesday, as reported by The Daily News.
Rumor has it that the world's top golfer, 23-year-old Irishman Rory McIlroy, is on the verge of signing a 10-year deal with Nike, worth $250 million, according to major media sources.
Warren Buffett, the country's second-richest man and one of the world's most successful investors, told CNBC in an interview Wednesday, that he sees the U.S. economy "inching ahead" despite slowing economies in Europe and Asia.