Nov 10, 2013 | News, North America
WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (Reuters) – A top U.S. regulator on Wednesday called for the creation of new “venture exchanges” that would be exempt from certain costly regulatory rules so that small start-ups could more easily list and raise capital. “The...
Nov 10, 2013 | News, Western Europe
FRANKFURT, Nov 8 (Reuters) – Germany’s Boehringer Ingelheim, the world’s largest unlisted drugmaker, is looking to expand its animal health business and is set to make an offer for poultry vaccine and feed additives maker Lohmann, two people familiar...
Nov 8, 2013 | East Asia, News, North America
AllThingsD Nov 8 LivingSocial has its buyer for Korean subsidiary Ticket Monster: Its biggest competitor, Groupon. Groupon said it will pay at least $100 million in cash and up to $160 million in stock for Ticket Monster, known locally as TMon. AllThingsD had recently...
Nov 7, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
The Moscow Times City Hall plans to sell 39 cinemas, some of which are currently shut, to investors who will be tasked with transforming them into attractive entertainment hubs, a senior Moscow official said Thursday. Ten of the cinemas will be auctioned off on Dec....
Nov 7, 2013 | China, East Asia, News, Western Europe
MILAN, Nov 7 (Reuters) – Italian waste management operator Waste Italia is in talks to sell the company to China’s Sound Global, the main shareholder of Waste Italia said on Thursday. “They made an offer in July which we judged inadequate. They have...
Nov 7, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, North America, Russia
The Moscow Times The American finance giant Goldman Sachs and VTB Capital could buy into Russian Fitness Group, one of the leaders on the domestic market of fitness services. The group, which owns the fitness club networks World Class and FizKult, may see one of its...
