This won’t be a revelation to private equity bankers — but August was officially quiet for deals.
The summer month typically marks a dearth of transactions as bankers head out to the beach, but last month was exceptionally slow.
The dollar value of deals involving private equity sank to the lowest for four years, $21.7 billion globally […]
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Every five years or so in the Valley there’s a lot of hype about mobile being the next big thing. Only it never quite pans out. This is one of those times, and while skeptics are still out there, there are also a lot of believers. Why? The iPhone. It’s fa
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Belgian brewer InBev is planning to sell its Korean beer business, Oriental Brewery, sources said on Tuesday, allowing it raise up to $2 billion for its planned $52 billion for its takeover of Budweiser brewer Anheuser-Busch Cos. InBev, set to become the world’s largest brewer after the deal, has said it was considering the disposal […]
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In the third part of my one-on-one with MacroMarkets chief economist and Yale professor Robert Shiller, we discuss whether bubble-proofing the U.S. economy is possible — or even desirable.Shiller, who was prescient in calling the latest real estate bubbl
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Turns out, Korea Development Bank is in talks with Lehman Brothers - but now, after the government threw cold water on prospects for a solo KDB investment, the question has become which local bank will be partnered up with the state-run bank for this bold investment. KDB was to be a “cheerleader” rather than the […]
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In his new book The Subprime Solution, superstar Yale economist Robert Shiller offers a game plan for digging America out of its housing hole. …
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With tens of billions in the bank collecting dust since its failed bid for Yahoo, and the elusive promise of the Internet still beckoning, Microsoft returned to the market for Internet search businesses with a $486 million purchase of Greenfield Online, the U.S.-listed owner of European price comparison website ciao.com. The buy is meant to […]
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It’s been a few years since Second Life went from hot to over-hyped, but overall investment and interest in virtual worlds is growing. Really. Not only is investment in the category up, as we last reported in April, but it was one of the biggest categorie
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