Confirming reports circulating around the Web this week, MySpace said Tuesday that it would acquire iLike, a popular music application for social networks that lets users share playlists and make song recommendations.
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Private Equity Hub (peHub) is an interactive forum for the private equity community, which includes venture capitalists, buyouts professionals, attorneys, bankers, entrepreneurs, MBA candidates studying PE, and assorted hangers-on.
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Following the example of Eddie Bauer, orphaned brands are poised to receive a breath of new life from private equity players and corporate buyers, BusinessWeek writes.
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Calpers lost nearly $60 billion in the financial markets last year, which means it has a serious long-term shortfall. Joseph A. Dear, the fund’s new invesment head, thinks the cure is in hedge funds and beaten-down private equity.
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It is the hot new thing on Wall Street, a way for traders to master the stock market, peek at investors’ orders and, critics say, subtly manipulate share prices. It is called high-frequency trading — and it is one of the most …
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