Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Freddie Mac executives are talking to private-equity firms and other investors about the possibility of buying new common or preferred shares.
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 21 minutes ago
Private-equity firms MBK Partners and Providence Equity Partners are among shortlisted bidders for a 45% stake in PCCW's new media and telecommunications unit.
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 21 minutes ago
Harbinger increased its stake in Cablevision to 8.1%, a sign the hedge fund is likely to apply more pressure.
Techdirt (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Valleywag points us to a rather scathing profile of late stage "investment" firm Advanced Equities in Chicago. Valleywag refers to the operation as a venture capital firm, but the details suggest it's a bit different than a traditional VC firm, which tends to raise a fund and then invest it as deals come up. Instead, it looks like AE is more of an investment hunter. While it does appear to have some...
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Private-equity firms MBK Partners and Providence Equity Partners are among shortlisted bidders for a 45% stake in PCCW's new media and telecommunications unit.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
When Daniel Bernstein founded Sandlot Games six years ago, there wasn't much to the casual games industry. Now, the former director of product strategy at Redmond's WildTangent is overseeing a profitable and fast-growing gaming company.
Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Amazon announced Thursday that its Elastic Block Store (EBS) feature is now available to all of its EC2 Web service customers. The move is a significant upgrade and rounds out Amazon’s offering by providing a full storage suite that is delivered as a service. S3 and EC2 previously combined to be [...]
Money Morning (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
By Jennifer Yousfi Managing Editor U.S. private-equity firm Lone Star Funds announced yesterday (Thursday) that it would buy a majority stake in Germany’s IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG for... Money Morning is here to help investors profit handsomely on this seismic shift in the global economy. Money moves markets. But Money Morning lets you move first.
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | yesterday
Venture capital investment in India grew impressively during the second quarter of 2008. Between April and June, VCs invested a total of $238 million in 17 deals, up 120 percent from the $108 million invested during the same period last year, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. That makes it the second-highest quarter in VentureSource’s records. The [...]
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
German lender IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG, which has been badly hit by the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis, will be sold to U.S.-based private equity firm Lone Star Funds, the German company's biggest shareholder said Thursday.
bizjournals (Free subscription) | yesterday
Venture capitalists were eager to back advertising start-ups in India during the second quarter of 2008, according to the Quarterly India Venture Capital Report released Thursday by Dow Jones VentureSource.
Hindu (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
BANGALORE: The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), a non-profit organisation promoting entrepreneurship, will host an entrepreneurial summit (TES) in Bangalore from December 16 to 18. Focus The summit will focus ...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Germany has turned to the private equity "locusts" that its politicians have publicly derided after US buyout group Lone Star secured a cut-price deal to buy troubled bank IKB, one of the biggest casualties of the credit crisis.
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
The resources and funds offered by the ex-students of Nitie will take a concrete shape with the institute planning to create an Nitie Alumni Angel Fund.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
The US private equity group Lone Star has bought the distressed German lender with the dubious honour of being the country's first victim of the credit crunch, and which threatened to bring down the German economy.
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