A battle for US computer giant Dell has heated up as corporate raider Carl Icahn and other investors made a new offer and called a planned buyout led by company founder Michael Dell a "giveaway". The investor group, which holds around 13 ...
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Chemical Marketing and Economics (CM&E), the business and investment group of the American Chemical Society’s New York Section (ACS NY), has awarded Marcelo Odebrecht, president and CEO of Odebrecht S.A., has been honored with the ...
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The Blackstone Group has pulled out of the race to buy Dell. The investment group, together with tech investors Insight Venture Partners and Francisco Partners, had made an original offer of $14.25 per share (£9.28). Further ...
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Ares Life Sciences, a Switzerland-based healthcare-focused investment group, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the complete share capital of Planet Biopharmaceuticals. The agreement also includes the acquisition of Planet ...
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The presence of Mediaglass has been reinforced due to the entry of H.E. Sheikh Khalid Nasser Al-Thani through the technological investment company QID into the share capital of the company. After the creation of the first full ...
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Canada's Morien Resources is heading up a group of investors and coal buyers in talks with Xstrata Coal about buying its 75% stake in the $500 million Donkin coal project in Nova Scotia, a source close to the situation said Monday. The ...
A special committee of Dell board members is apparently looking at takeover proposals to rival original owner Michael Dell's private offer of $24.4bn (£16bn). According to source quoted by Reuters, higher bids from Investment group ...
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Divine Cycling Group, the new investment group that recently purchased Mad Fiber, has hired industry veterans Jasen Thorpe and Brett Lindstrom. DCG aims to acquire other companies in the bicycle industry. Thorpe joined DCG’s ...
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — Eagle Inds. has laid off about 250 workers at its plant here and says it is in talks with an investor for a possible purchase of the entertainment furniture and case goods manufacturer. Eagle was asked to ...
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Hewlett-Packard's purchase of Autonomy is under investigation by the U.K. Serious Fraud Office, the company said in a regulatory filing ahead of its annual meeting where there are expected to be challenges to the re-election of Chairman Ray ...
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Hewlett-Packard’s purchase of Autonomy is under investigation by the U.K. Serious Fraud Office, the company said in a regulatory filing ahead of its annual meeting where there are expected to be challenges to the re-election of ...
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Investors took a record high for US stocks - the bellwether Dow Jones Industrial Index eclipsing its pre-global financial crisis peak - as confirmation that the US economic recovery is gathering strength and sent the local market to its ...
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Sony has sold the main office "Sony CityOsaki" in Tokyo by the 111.1 billion yen (about 1.2 billion dollars). The office building is 25 stories high, was completed in 2011 in March, covering an area of 124,000 square meters, containing ...
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A newly formed investment group has purchased carbon wheel manufacturer Mad Fiber, the first of several bike industry acquisitions it's eyeing in 2013. Divine Cycling Group was founded in January by Gary Ullman and Dan Devine, who, ...
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An investor advisor group is asking HP shareholders not to re-elect two long-standing board members and to oppose the ratification of the company’s audit firm in connection with the controversy over the company’s purchase of ...
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