Feb 11, 2013 | News, North America
Feb 11 (Reuters) – Canadian private equity firm Onex Corp said on Monday it plans to sell its 50 percent stake in RSI Home Products back to the privately held company for about $323 million. Onex said its investment in RSI, which manufactures kitchen and...
Feb 8, 2013 | News, Western Europe
LONDON, Feb 8 (Reuters) – Private equity firms are reviving plans for a potential 10 billion pound ($15.7 billion) buyout of the UK’s biggest mobile operator EE, encouraged by recent deals like…
Feb 1, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
Since the beginning of 2013, the Microsoft Seed Fund has provided a total of $110,000 in grants to two startups from Russia’s regions. A $50,000 grant went to RealSpeaker, a startup from Kazan, Tatarstan, which offers a new approach to speech recognition. The company...
Jan 29, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
Rambler-Afisha, an Internet group owned by Russian tycoon Vladimir Potanin’s ProfMedia holding, is seeking to attract an investor in Begun, a context advertising company which it fully acquired just months ago. In an >exchange with the Russian business daily...
Jan 24, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News 23 Jan 2013 Qiwi, a leading operator of cash payment terminals and electronic wallets operating in Russia and internationally, intends to invest in startups whose solutions could help the group develop its own offers. ‘Qiwi Venture’ will stand...
