NEW YORK—A Goldman Sachs Group Inc. director told jurors at the insider-trading trial of ex-Goldman board member Rajat Gupta that he believed discussions by the investment bank's board in June 2008 about possibly acquiring an insurance ...
HONG KONG—Australia's benchmark index closed at a six-month low and the Shanghai Composite Index gave way for the 11th time in 15 sessions as investors focused on worries about the global economy.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — The controversy over Facebook Inc.’s initial public offering touches on language used in regulatory filings called “risk factors.”
Following last month's acquisition of Philadelphia-based URL Pharma Inc., Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical has struck another deal, this time in Brazil. Takeda's overseas acquisitions now total almost $15 billion in the last two years, ...
Zynga Inc. has faced plenty of questions after buying the maker of "Draw Something," a mobile game that was released only six weeks earlier and has since lost popularity. Now the social games company is trying to provide some answers.
By Corrie Driebusch and Nathalie Tadena Among the companies with shares expected to actively trade in Friday's session are Frontline Ltd. (FRO), VeriFone Systems Inc. (PAY) and Talbots Inc. (TLB).
Being put on hold is no fun. But Vodafone Group has little choice when it comes to plans for the company's Indian operations. The Anglo-Dutch telecoms giant is expected to list its Indian business at some point but said this week there'll be ...
As Apple Inc. and Samsung solidify their leadership positions in the smartphone market, eyes are turning to Taiwan's HTC Corp.'s to see how it will play catch-up.
The NFL news cycle is still kind of slow this time of year. The serious questions – whether Osi Umenyiora will resolve his contract status, how Peyton Manning will do with the Denver Broncos, whether Bill Belichick's new hoodies bring out ...
Kinder Morgan conflict-ridden acquisition of El Paso has closed, and Kinder Morgan now expects to save even more than it thought before. From Dow Jones' Kristin Jones today:
HONG KONG—Asia's richest man laid out his succession plans Friday, putting his older son at the helm of his business empire and promising his younger son funding to embark on new investments.
Oracle isn't sitting quietly by today after rival SAP bought a cloud-computing company Tuesday. It is buying cloud-based social-marketing company Vitrue for an undisclosed amount.
Facebook is at it again: scooping up teams of staff from small companies. The social network is acquiring some of the staff of Bolt-Peters, a website design outfit that describes itself on its site as having "roughly six employees, one dog ...
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