As the New Year starts to roll, private equity firm Carlyle joins the other firms racing to make acquisitions with its $4.15 billion purchase of a Johnson&Johnson unit, the Financial Times reported.
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IBM betting $1.2B on its cloud services through acquisition
IBM will be investing $1.2 billion to bolster its $2 billion purchase of SoftLayer Technologies last year, a business which it is betting on for growth, Bloomberg reported.
Yahoo Editor-in-Chief Jai Singh quits
Yahoo's Editor-in-Chief Jai Singh resigned from the company due to an unconfirmed reason, on the heels of the news that the company's chief operating officer has been fired.
Aquaint eyes distressed property assets in Australia -sources
Singapore-Malay asset manager and property investor Aquaint Capital is looking to raise fresh capital to acquire distressed property assets across Australia, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Cisco report says 14pct increase seen in cyber attacks in 2013
Cyber attacks increased 14% last year as hackers look to firms in the pharmaceuticals, mining and electronics industries which are rich repositories of intellectual property, the Financial Times reported.
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Marlyand, US-based education startup Tales2Go bagged $750,000 in a seed funding round led by NewSchoolds Venture Fund and Maryland Venture Fund to improve students' listening fluency through a "Netflix-like" audiobook app.
A Kickstarter campaign allowed chip startup Adapteva to bridge the gap between its Series A and Series B rounds and prove its market, a Gigaom report said.
Colombia-based firm Grupo Energia de Bogota inked a deal valued at $650 million to acquire a 23.61% stake in Peru-based gas pipeline operator Transportadora de Gas del Peru.
The National Security Agency in the US collects nearly 200 million text messages every day, storing in its database information like addresses, financial transactions and contact networks.
Mercom Capital Group, llc, a global communications and consulting firm, released its annual report on funding and mergers and acquisition (M&A) activity for the Healthcare Information Technology (IT) sector in 2013.Healthcare IT - Top 5 VC Funded Companies in 2013
Anyone who has ever been involved in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) will want to download and start -- and won't be able to stop -- playing the world's first M&A game app, launched today by pioneering virtual data room provider ansarada.
As its acquisitions increase and earnings go down, billionaire Carlos Slim's mobile phone firm America Movil's record rate of stock repurchases could decrease, Bloomberg reported.
South Korea-based investment fund Korea Investment Corp (KIC) is considering selling a $1-billion stake in Bank of America after the latter's value halved since 2008, according to a report by Korean media.
Australia-based property and aged-care developer Aveo Group is planning to sell about $500 million worth of residential and office assets this year in a bid to become
