Apr 15, 2013 | News, Western Europe
HELSINKI, April 12 (Reuters) – Dutch brewer Heineken plans to sell its Finnish unit Hartwall to Hartwall Capital, an investment firm owned by the family which started the beverage business, a report said on Friday. The report in the Finnish business magazine...
Apr 15, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
Garpun, a Moscow-based startup that provides digital agencies and corporate advertisers with online ad management tools, has raised $3.5 million from the Russian PE & VC fund iTech Capital. The valuation of the startup has not been disclosed, but iTech Capital’s...
Apr 15, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
VTB Capital, the investment arm of Russia’s VTB Group, has acquired a minority holding in National Satellite Company, Russia’s largest satellite TV operator working under the Tricolor TV< brand name. While announcing the partnership this past Tuesday, the partners in...
Apr 15, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia, Western Europe
Moscow Times 14 April 2013 The daughter of Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev has bought the Greek resort island where shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis famously married Jacqueline Kennedy in the 1960s, Rybolovlev’s investment office said. The sale price was...
Apr 13, 2013 | News, North America
Apple Insider 11 April 2013 In a tweet and subsequent blog post, LinkedIn announced on Thursday that it has acquired popular news aggregation and reader Pulse, with the buy signaling in no uncertain terms that the business networking giant is moving toward online...
