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American Tycoon eyes Coventry City Sky Blues

Mar 20, 2013 | News, Western Europe

United States property tycoon Preston Haskell IV has emerged as the man waiting in the wings to swoop for Coventry City

India: Private equity deal flow continues to be slow

Mar 20, 2013 | India, News, South & Central Asia

Private equity and venture capital investments continued to be slow with a slight improvement in aggregate value

Avito.ru, Slando.ru and OLX.ru merge to create online classifieds giant

Mar 20, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia

Avito.ru, Russia’s leading classifieds site by number of users, is merging with its competitors Slando.ru and OLX.ru, creating the fifth most popular Russian website, with more than 100 million page views a day, The Financial Times reported this morning. As part of...

BlackBerry inventors pump $100 mln into quantum technologies

Mar 20, 2013 | News, North America

BlackBerry inventors Mike Lazaridis and Doug Fregin are pairing again to launch a $100 million fund to incubate and commercialize quantum science

Shares of Yandex, MegaFon and Rusnano are changing hands

Mar 20, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia

The ownership of three major Russian tech companies – the search giant Yandex, the state-owned nanotechnology corporation Rusnano, and the mobile operator MegaFon – is being affected by significant changes. Yandex, which raised $1.3 billion in its IPO back in May...

Private equity could drive UK company listings revival

Mar 19, 2013 | News, Western Europe

LONDON, March 19 (Reuters) – A trickle of British company stock market listings in London could gain momentum if a more receptive mood among investors persuades private equity firms the time is right to sell. Countrywide prices listing at top of price range...