Mar 18, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, North America
March 17 (Reuters) – Pantera Capital Management LP, a hedge fund that manages money for Fortress Investment Group LLC executives, invested about $10 million in Bitstamp Ltd months before it emerged as the world’s dominant dollar-bitcoin exchange, Bloomberg...
Mar 12, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News
HELSINKI, March 12 (Reuters) – (Reuters) – Finnish start-up Next Games has raised $6 million in funding in the latest of several venture capital investments in the Nordic country’s booming mobile games industry, the company said on Wednesday. Founded...
Mar 11, 2014 | News, North America
BOSTON, March 11 (Reuters) – Blackstone Group, the world’s biggest alternative asset manager, said on Tuesday it has agreed to buy most of cybersecurity firm Accuvant Inc from investment firm Sverica International. Blackstone will own about 80 percent of...
Mar 11, 2014 | News, Western Europe
KOBLENZ, Germany, March 11 (Reuters) – Germany’s Nuerburgring has been sold to motor sport industry supplier Capricorn Group for more than 100 million euros ($139m), ending a months-long search to find new owners for the world’s longest racetrack,...
Mar 10, 2014 | News, North America
March 10 (Reuters) – Mediterranean style restaurant chain Zoe’s Kitchen filed with U.S. regulators to raise up to $80.5 million in an initial public offering. The Birmingham, Alabama-based company is backed by private equity firm Brentwood Associates....
