May 30, 2013 | China, East Asia, News
CaixinOnline 24 May 2013 (Beijing) – Several securities firms and private funds have lined up for regulatory approval to launch public funds after June 1, when a policy that permits them into the business came into effect. The most promising candidates to receive the...
May 30, 2013 | Brazil, Latin America, News
Brazil Daily 29 May 2013 David Neeleman, the founder of US carrier JetBlue, has filed plans to take his Brazilian airline public in a deal that is set to raise about R$1bn (US$487m) and help bolster his position in one of the industry’s fastest-growing markets. Azul,...
May 30, 2013 | Global, News
Forbes 23 May 2013 Let me take a stab at some perhaps less obvious things to know about M&A (from the perspective of a start-up founder at least): Companies don’t buy start-ups. People do — CEOs and SVPs. There are 1,000 companies Google GOOG -1.24% or Apple AAPL...
May 29, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, MENA, News, Russia
Leading Russian Internet group Mail.Ru Group announced yesterday that it has poured $1.5 million into the Israeli visual search developer Cortica. The funding is part of a larger round led by other undisclosed investors; it brings the total amount attracted by Cortica...
May 29, 2013 | Asia, China, East Asia, News, North America
Marketwired.com 28 May 2013 REDWOOD CITY, CA XcelMobility, Inc., a leading developer of mobile internet products and services, announced today that it has acquired the video encoding and compression group of Shenzhen Jifu Communication Technology, a professional...
May 29, 2013 | Asia, China, East Asia, News, North America
Indexuniverse.com 22 May 2013 RevenueShares, the ETF provider with a six-fund lineup of revenue-weighted strategies, has partnered up with a China-based venture capitalist firm in a deal that looks to not only help the ETF sponsor expand its footprint in the U.S., but...
