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    Tuesday, May 13, 2008 Icahn Said to Prepare Fight at Yahoo (1 click)
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May 13, 2008 at 3:42 pm ET Carl C. Icahn may have set his sights on his latest target: Yahoo.
CNBC’s David Faber reported Tuesday that the activist investor is considering beginning a proxy fight at the Internet media company, fewer than two ... (more) From DealBook - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 13, 2008 at 3:16 pm ET Federal authorities indicted on Tuesday a former UBS banker for his role in a tax evasion scheme that allowed an ultra-wealthy American to use overseas trusts to avoid paying taxes on $200 million in assets, ... (more) From DealBook - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 13, 2008 at 1:24 pm ET Hewlett-Packard’s chief executive, Mark V. Hurd, faced a barrage of contentious questions Tuesday from analysts who seemed to be puzzled by the company’s decision to spend nearly $14 billion to buy technology service provider Electronic ... (more) From DealBook - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 13, 2008 at 11:50 am ET As the vestiges of the last private equity boom appear to be wrapped up, Greenhill & Company seems to be betting on a resurgence of the buyout industry.
The boutique investment bank said Tuesday that it ... (more) From DealBook - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 13, 2008 at 11:47 am ET Cue up that old Carly Simon song, “Anticipation.”
Investors were still awaiting word late Tuesday morning about whether or not the proposed buyers of Clear Channel Communications, the largest radio broadcaster in the United States, ... (more) Barry Diller: We Were No G.E. (1 click)
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May 13, 2008 at 11:28 am ET Barry Diller can be brash and outspoken, but he is apparently not afraid to admit he was wrong. The billionaire media mogul, one of the most highly paid chief executives in the United States, conceded ... (more) From DealBook - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 13, 2008 at 10:43 am ET A merger that creates an industry behemoth usually sparks all kinds of chatter about follow-on deals. But investors don’t seem to have much conviction about who the next target will be, now that Hewlett-Packard has ... (more) Biz360 Raises $10 Million (1 click)
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May 13, 2008 at 8:18 am ET Biz360, a market and media intelligence firm specializing in the Web, has raised $10 million Foundation Capital, along with past backers Granite Ventures and Scale Venture Partners.
According to peHUB, the Burlingame, CA-based firm has ... (more) From DealBook - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 13, 2008 at 8:17 am ET Private equity firms that are buying leveraged buyout loans risk repeating the mistakes of investors in subprime mortgages, British financier Guy Hands told Bloomberg News.
Terra Firma Capital Partners, the private equity firm run by Mr. ... (more) From DealBook - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 13, 2008 at 8:11 am ET Coca-Cola, the world’s biggest drinks maker, is seeking more acquisition opportunities in the fast-growing soft drinks market to expand its revenue sources, the company’s presumptive next chief executive said on Tuesday.
Sales of established soft drinks ... (more) From DealBook - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 13, 2008 at 8:03 am ET Members of the New York Mercantile Exchange will try to thwart the $9 billion takeover by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange unless the rival futures trading giant significantly boosts its offer, The New York Post reported ... (more) Multigig Ticks Off $12.5 Million (1 click)
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May 13, 2008 at 7:55 am ET Multigig, a maker of a new generation of clocks for silicon chips, has received $12.5 million in second-round financing.
Multigig’s clocks replace the quartz clocks in most chips today.
Investors include CMEA Ventures, Sierra Ventures and ... (more) From DealBook - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 13, 2008 at 7:55 am ET Gaming device maker Bigfoot Networks has secured $8.75 million in Series B funding to expand its engineering team and sales efforts.
The Austin company, founded in 2005, produces network interface cards that trim the lag ... (more) From DealBook - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 13, 2008 at 7:44 am ET When Linens ‘n Things landed in bankruptcy court this month, it was a black eye for Leon Black, whose Apollo Management had taken the retailer private during the buyout boom. But the buyout veteran is ... (more) From DealBook - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 13, 2008 at 7:35 am ET Is the worst of the credit crisis behind us? Narrower yield premiums and an uptick in issuances have offered Wall Street some comfort, but Investment Dealers’ Digest says there are worrisome signs as well.
For example, ... (more) From DealBook - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 13, 2008 at 7:34 am ET From Julia Werdigier, a DealBook colleague in London:
Barclays Capital, the securities unit of one of Britain’s largest banks, on Tuesday hired five senior investment bankers from ABN Amro, the Dutch bank it failed to buy ... (more) From DealBook - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 13, 2008 at 7:29 am ET Informa, the international information, publishing and events business behind titles such as Lloyd’s List, is reportedly being circled by private equity groups.
The Carlyle Group and Apax Partners are among those considering a bid for ... (more) From DealBook - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 13, 2008 at 7:19 am ET Baring Private Equity Asia has raised nearly $1.52 billion for a fund targeting mid-sized growth companies in the region, showing investor appetite for Asia remains strong despite a slowing global economy.
Baring said on Tuesday that ... (more) From DealBook - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 13, 2008 at 7:18 am ET California has backed away from a controversial proposal to regulate hedge funds under strong opposition from its hedge fund industry.
The state’s move comes as the Securities and Exchange Commission struggles with its own more ... (more) From DealBook - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 13, 2008 at 7:17 am ET A hedge fund and its former manager have agreed to pay more than $1 million for trading on inside information surrounding Citizens Bank’s $10.5 billion purchase of Charter One.
Federal regulators yesterday announced a settlement ... (more) From DealBook - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 13, 2008 at 7:14 am ET State-owned Saudi Arabian Mining Company, known as Maaden, plans to raise 9.25 billion riyals ($2.47 billion) in July in the Middle East’s biggest mining initial public offerng, valuing the firm at $4.9 billion, the Saudi ... (more) From DealBook - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 13, 2008 at 7:13 am ET Kenneth C. Griffin is not pleased with the current state of affairs on Wall Street.
As Andrew Ross Sorkin writes in his latest DealBook column, the founder of Citadel Investment Group thinks the entire industry needs ... (more) From DealBook - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 13, 2008 at 7:07 am ET Westpac Banking launched a $17.6 billion all-share bid for smaller rival St. George Bank in a tie-up that would create Australia’s biggest bank by market value.
Analysts said the deal could trigger further consolidation in ... (more) From DealBook - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 13, 2008 at 7:05 am ET Maurice R. Greenberg, the former chief executive of the American International Group, says the company is in “crisis” and urged a delay in its annual general meeting, scheduled for Wednesday, in a letter to the ... (more) From DealBook - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 13, 2008 at 7:02 am ET The owners of The New York Post and The Daily News lost out to Cablevision in the battle for Newsday on Monday, but, according to The New York Times, the tabloid war may be ... (more) Items 1 - 25 of 3,816
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