Mar 11, 2014 | News, North America
BOSTON, March 11 (Reuters) – Blackstone Group, the world’s biggest alternative asset manager, said on Tuesday it has agreed to buy most of cybersecurity firm Accuvant Inc from investment firm Sverica International. Blackstone will own about 80 percent of...
Mar 11, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
Moscow Times March 11, 2014 City Hall has bought Argumenty i Fakty, one of Russia’s best-selling weekly newspapers, a source familiar with the situation said Tuesday. Argumenty i Fakty’s chief editor, Nikolai Zyatkov, told Interfax that he does not expect...
Mar 11, 2014 | News, Western Europe
KOBLENZ, Germany, March 11 (Reuters) – Germany’s Nuerburgring has been sold to motor sport industry supplier Capricorn Group for more than 100 million euros ($139m), ending a months-long search to find new owners for the world’s longest racetrack,...
Mar 11, 2014 | News, Western Europe
TechCrunch Never mind poor service or the food itself, the experience of actually paying the bill at the end of a meal is often cited as the biggest pain-point for restaurant goes. Or so says Flypay, a new UK startup whose app wants to make settling the bill...
Mar 10, 2014 | News, North America
March 10 (Reuters) – Mediterranean style restaurant chain Zoe’s Kitchen filed with U.S. regulators to raise up to $80.5 million in an initial public offering. The Birmingham, Alabama-based company is backed by private equity firm Brentwood Associates....
Mar 10, 2014 | News, North America
NEW YORK, March 10 (Reuters) – Private equity firm Warburg Pincus is looking to sell education software maker iParadigms and has tapped Evercore Partners Inc to assist with the effort, people familiar with the matter said on Monday. IParadigms, based in Oakland,...
