Zubie, a connected car service provider headquartered in South Carolina, raised $10 million for its Series A round led by Castrol innoVentures, Comporium Inc and OpenAir Equity.
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PAG invests $250M in Universal Studios Japan
Asian buyout firm PAG has committed $250 million in theme park operator Universal Studios Japan. The said fund will be used to develop a new Harry Potter attraction and expand into other parts of Asia.
US mobile firm Mocana gets $15M to secure the Internet of Things
San Francisco-based mobile security company Mocana has received $15 million from a funding round led by GE Ventures, to build out the company’s products that prevent hacking of Wi-Fi-enabled objects.
Private equity-backed Berry Plastics Group looks to refinance debt
A Bloomberg report said Berry Plastics Group Inc is seeking to refinance its debt, offering to pay 2.75 to 3 percentage points more than the London interbank offered rate.
Wellard shipping assets attract strong interest from Brazil and Saudi
Fremantle-based livestock export giant Wellard Group’s shipping and land division have attracted strong interests from wealthy investors in Saudi Arabia and Brazil, according to industry insiders.
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Boston-based caregiver services provider Care.com aims to raise $80 million in its initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange to capture the care market and develop new products.
Education startup Koru secured $4.35 million from Maveron and other investors to help transform the way recent college graduates prepare to work in the real world.
Moody's says the outlook for the Australian infrastructure sector is stable, underpinned by a resilient economy.
Carl Icahn today acquired 30.6 million shares of Hologic Inc upon exercise of all of the call options according to SEC filing.
CubeSmart today announced that it has completed the acquisition of the previously announced $326.2 million self-storage portfolio in Houston and Austin, TX and Charlotte, NC.
Private equity fund CVC is said to be divesting Sunrise, a mobile operator in Switzerland and has already engaged banks to discuss about their roles for a potential listing or sale.
China Daily on Thursday quoted National Development and Reform Commission's (NDRC) anti-price-fixing bureau Xu Kunlin, who said his agency has substantive evidence to prove that chipmaker Qualcomm Inc is involved in price-fixing acts.
At his annual speech at the Kremlin, President Vladimir Putin acknowledged that actions to improve Russia's business climate should be done immediately after finally conceding that the state's economic problems were grown at home.
JC Penney Co Inc CEO Mike Ullman told Reuters exclusively that the company is planning to dispose and trim some of its top name brands like Joe Fresh clothes and its own jcp menswear in order to focus on brands that generate more sales for the company.
