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...
Apr 8, 2013 | News, Western Europe
STOCKHOLM, April 5 (Reuters) – Private equity firm Nordic Capital said on Friday its Fund VIII had struck a deal to buy Danish logistics company Unifeeder from Montagu Private Equity for an undisclosed price. Unifeeder has northern Europe’s biggest feeder...
Apr 8, 2013 | India, News, South & Central Asia
Economic Times 8 April 2013 NEW DELHI: American private equity company KohlbergKravis Roberts (KKR) will purchase a 90 per cent stake in specialised tyre maker Alliance Tire Group from rival PE fund WarburgPincus and owner Yogesh Kumar Mahansaria for an enterprise...
Apr 5, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News
WARSAW, April 4 (Reuters) – Zbigniew Komorowski, one of Poland’s richest men who built a fortune from grain and dairy markets after Poland’s democratic transition in 1989, is selling most of his agricultural holdings in a disposal that could be worth...
Apr 5, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
A group of e-commerce entrepreneurs from Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia has secured $300,000 in equity investment – including $200,000 from the Moscow Seed Fund and $100,000 from angel investor Andrei Golovin – to launch Sendmebox, a platform to help Russian online...