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...whiff of danger in America's mortgage market, the Royal Bank of Scotland had other business in hand. As French, German and Dutch banks confessed to being hit by their exposure to soured U.S. sub-prime mortgages, an RBS-led consortium was closing in on its eventual $100 billion buy-out of Dutch rival ABN Amro, the banking industry's biggest ever takeover. One year on, and Britain's second-largest lender is still making news - though these days it's much less welcome. On August 8, RBS announced it had tumbled to a $1.33 billion loss in the first...
...long ago, going public was the hottest move a company could make. These days, it's going private. Private equity funds are soaring worldwide, particularly in Europe, where the value of buyouts rose by 23% last year to €80 billion, according to the U.K.-based Centre for Management Buy-Out Research, and seems likely to keep rising. Not everyone likes the trend; German officials have likened the firms to "locusts." But U.S. funds alone have trebled their investments in Europe over the past four years. Many of them are currently raising huge war chests for further acquisitions. They include...
Start-ups also face a number of buy-out offers, often from other companies, even competing companies. The most tempting buyout offers create an incentive for employees to stay on for an additional year or two, continuing work but giving up their autonomy...
...Exeter. The plug-in generates playlists catered to a user’s musical tastes. Zuckerberg and D’Angelo called the program Synapse. Soon enough Slashdot.com, a widely read tech-blog, wrote a blurb about it, inspiring Winamp, Microsoft, and a number of other companies to send buy-out offers Zuckerberg?...
Story: James Hong and Jim Young founded HotOrNot in their living room and that is where it has stayed. The site is making money – not millions, but enough to survive, Facebook founder and friend Jonathan Abrams says. Hong and Young have turned down buy-out and investment offers – putting living room fun over corporate malaise...