Lavabit LLC founder Ladar Levison posted in Facebook his detailed account of how he had put up a fight with the US government in lieu of the company's to National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Industry sources told Reuters that several private firms and companies like Bloomberg News would face heavy competition in acquiring financial news provider Mergermarket.

Greenline Financial Technologies specialized in Financial Information Exchange was acquired by CameronTec through a buyout.

In an interview fresh from its acquisition of Investors Capital Holdings Ltd, RCS Capital Corp Executive Chairman of the Board Nicholas Schorsch said his company would still be on the lookout for more potential buyouts.

The Wall Street Journal cited a source who said the Robinsons Retail Group of the Philippines had started testing investor demand in the company's planned USD800 million initial public offering.

Activist investor William Ackman told investors through a letter dated October 2 that he had reduced over 40% of his USD1 billion investment with nutritional supplements company Herbalife.

The ownership structure of the new merged firm between Oi SA and Portugal Telecom would be simple, compared to the previous structure.

Concert promoter AEG Live was not responsible for Michael Jackson's death, the jury ruled. A jury in a Los Angeles court cleared concert promoter AEG Live of any liability in Michael Jackson's death in 2009.

Divers found human remains around the site where the Costa Concordia capsized last year. Franco Gabrielli, the Head of Italy's Civil Protection Agency, said divers had recovered bodies from the site where the Costa Concordia sank last year in the sea off Tuscany.

Fiat and Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne are far from reaching a settlement on the pricing conflict as to the health care trust fund's shareholdings.