Oct 31, 2013 | News, North America
TechCrunch Intuit is acquiring FullSlate, an online scheduling company that allows clients to offer their customers the ability to make appointments directly to web sites and Facebook pages. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The service will become part of Intuit...
Oct 31, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
The Moscow Times Billionaire Arkady Rotenberg could soon become a co-owner of Prosveshcheniye, Russia’s leading publisher of school textbooks, an unidentified publisher said Thursday. Prosveshcheniye bought the Olma Media Group publishing company in 2012 and was...
Oct 31, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News ImpulseVC, web and media venture fund and incubation structure launched last week in Moscow, has injected $450,000 into Retail Rocket. The news was reported by Russian tech blog Firrma, based on an exchange with the startup’s founder Nikolai...
Oct 31, 2013 | News, Oceania
SYDNEY, Oct 31 (Reuters) – Australia’s Nine Entertainment Co Pty Ltd is seeking to raise as much as $570 million in an initial public offering, a person familiar with the process said, a move that will help the troubled TV network pay down debt. * Shares...
Oct 30, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
The Moscow Times National shoe retailer Obuv Rossii, or Russian Footwear, plans to carry out an initial public offering on the Moscow Exchange by the end of the year, the company’s chief and largest shareholder Anton Titov said Wednesday. The Novosibirsk-based...
Oct 30, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
The Moscow Times Rosneft, the world’s largest listed oil company by output, has asked President Vladimir Putin to sell it the state’s 20 percent stake in Novorossiisk Commercial Sea Port, or NCSP, Reuters reported. Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin, a Putin ally,...
