Oct 10, 2014 | News, North America
A robotic bartender named Monsieur and his human partners have raised $2 million in seed investment from BIP Capital with Base Ventures, Paul Judge, TechSquare Labs, NFL star Derrick Morgan, and NBA star Glen Davis. The funding will go towards bu…
Oct 10, 2014 | News, Oceania
SYDNEY, Oct 10 (Reuters) – Australia’s APN Outdoor plans to sell up to A$349 million ($306 million) in shares in an initial public offering as Quadrant Private Equity sells down its stake in the digital billboard company, a source working on the deal told...
Oct 9, 2014 | News, North America
WASHINGTON, Oct 9 (Reuters) – – U.S. regulators should revisit 1980s-era rules designed to prevent people with limited financial literacy from investing too much of their nest eggs in risky private stock deals, an advisory panel said on Thursday. The U.S....
Oct 9, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
Moscow Times October 10, 2014 MTS, Russia’s biggest mobile phone operator, on Thursday received the go-ahead to buy a 49 percent stake in major mobile phone retailer Svyaznoy, according to a statement on the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service’s website. The...
Oct 9, 2014 | India, News, South & Central Asia, Southeast Asia
MUMBAI, Oct 9 (Reuters) Temasek Holdings has agreed to invest 5 billion rupees ($82 million) to buy a stake in Devyani International, operator of KFC, Pizza Hut and Costa Coffee chains in India, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter said. The sources said...
Oct 9, 2014 | China, East Asia, News, North America
TechCrunch October 9, 2014 Smart remote software maker Peel has closed an additional $50 million in funding, supplied by Alibaba, the e-commerce giant which recently made its public market debut in the U.S. The company’s new funding is a strategic investment separate...
