BHP Billiton finally makes a major investment after declaring last year that the mining company will not partake in any big expenditures.

Home Deport benefited from the recovery of the US housing market. The revitalization of the U. S. housing market helped Home Depot Inc. top the quarterly profit and sales assessments made by analysts on Tuesday.

KKR inked a definitive agreement to buy RigNet Inc from Cubera. Leading investment company Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR) signed a definitive agreement to acquire RigNet Inc.

Semiconductor company Ambiq Micro raised USD 10 million for its Series B round. Texas-based Ambiq Micro closed its Series B funding round with USD 10 million.

Hannover Re said it was in talks with Lloyd's Banking Group-owned Heidelberger Leben for a possible purchase of a minority stake.

An industry observer concluded that Amazon lost around USD5 million in revenue when the e-commerce site went down 1PM Pacific time today.

Baring Private Equity Asia is planning to buy shares in Indian software company Hexaware Technologies.

Cairn Energy said its planned explorations in Northwest Africa and Ireland yielded up to 25% chance of success compared to its exploratory project in Greenland.

Glencore announced plans to sell off parts of recently acquired Xstrata assets. Glencore took a hit on Xstrata's mining assets for USD 7. 7 billion on Tuesday .

GSW Immobilien said it would study the EUR 1.75 billion takeover bid of Deutsche Women before giving any comment.