Dell's largest independent shareholder has teamed with activist investor Carl Icahn in another challenge to founder Michael Dell's $24.4 billion bid to take the struggling computer maker private.
Business
May 10, 2013
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(AP)—BMC Software Inc. has agreed to be sold to a private investor group for about $6.6 billion in cash.
Business
May 6, 2013
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The two new suitors pursuing Dell have a message for Wall Street: Don't allow Michael Dell to hoard potential gains from the expansion of the world's third largest PC maker into more profitable technology products and services.
Business
Mar 25, 2013
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European private equity group Permira will take over the popular Nasdaq-listed genealogy website Ancestry.com for $1.6 billion in cash, Permira announced on Monday.
Business
Oct 22, 2012
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The Knight Capital Group Inc. trading firm said it lost $764.3 million in the third quarter because of a software glitch that flooded the stock market with trades one day in August, causing dozens of stocks to fluctuate wildly.
Business
Oct 17, 2012
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(AP) -- Apple is the world's most valuable company. The Dow Jones industrial average is probably the world's best-known stock index. So don't they deserve each other?
Business
May 10, 2012
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Web security company Blue Coat Systems said Friday it is being acquired by a private investment group in a deal worth $1.3 billion.
Business
Dec 9, 2011
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(AP) -- In the world of video games, realism reigns supreme, but the makers of a game based on the infamous private security firm Blackwater are intentionally steering clear of it.
Software
Oct 4, 2011
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(AP) -- Educational software maker Blackboard is being taken private for $1.64 billion in cash by an investor group led by affiliates of Providence Equity Partners.
Business
Jul 1, 2011
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A group of investors plan to buy a stake in Square that would value the mobile payment start-up at $1 billion even as it competes with much larger rivals, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
Business
Jun 29, 2011
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