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US Federal Reserve's largasse is private equity benefit - report

An report published on The Financial Times detailed how private equity moves in markets to ensure that quantitative easing of the US Federal Reserve will not be further reduced.


Gold rises in third consecutive day as investors await Fed stimulus taper decision

As investors await for the decision of the US Federal Reserve to the timeline when it will begin with its tapering of its monthly bond purchases, prices of gold and other minerals saw increases in the financial markets.

Clean audit on Herbalife set back Ackman's pyramid claim

Despite getting clearance from accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP regarding its fiscal statements for the last three years, activist investor Bill Ackman appeared to be not convinced that Herbalife Ltd is not operating a pyramid scheme.

Google Ventures grows into a $1.2B firm in assets managed, 9 exits, 75 new investments in 2013

Google Ventures released its year-end data and, and TechCrunch noted that it has done tremendously, quieting critics who had said that the investment arm of Google Inc had not secured any major deals like with Twitter and Pinterest.


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A report noted that speculators who are looking to acquire Bitcoins by selling sex through certain Reddit subsections are rising at an alarming rate.
Workers in Amazon.com's logistic centers in the German towns of Bad Hersfled, Leipzig and Graben are prepared to go on strike on Monday. A dispute over pay has been plaguing the online retail company for months.
The government of North Korea under Kim Jong-un appeared to be purging close allies of disgraced political leader and family member Chang Song-thaek as the former orders its business people in China to come home.
Last-minute bettors on Friday were said to have driven the amount of jackpot money for Mega Millions from an estimated $425 million to over an estimated $550 million, according to lottery officials on Saturday.
A 2013 Billionaire census report by Wealth-X and UBS showed an increase in the number of millionaires in the Middle East, and that amount of wealth hold by Middle Eastern billionaires topped any other region in the world.
Yahoo Inc had a bad time this week, observed TechCrunch as the company struggled to appease its customers, including small business owners due to the outage of some of its key Web services.
Jason O'Grady offers Bitcoin speculators a more cost-effective investment in Litecoin, a crypto-currency which is second to Bitcoin in terms of market capitalization.
According to the South China Morning Post, the growing popularity of the Bitcoin has also led to a boom of sorts in bitcoin software for smartphones, the South China Morning Post reported.
A Nielsen study showed that Asian American households spend more than US households by an estimated 19%. They were also the top online shoppers. the South China Morning Post reported.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will turn over one of its idled space-shuttle launch pad to Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), according to officials on Friday.