Nov 5 2010

Mail.ru, Facebook Backer, Up 41% After London I.P.O.

The Mail.ru Group, a Russian investor in Facebook, surged as much as 41 percent in London trading after raising $912 million in the city’s biggest initial public offering since July, Bloomberg News reported. Mail.ru, based in Moscow, and its existing shareholders sold 32.9 million global depositary receipts at $27.7 each, the company said in a [...]


Oct 29 2010

Potash’s Doyle Urges Investor Patience

The chief executive of Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan, William J. Doyle, urged patience for investors expecting an alternative to BHP Billiton’s $40 billion bid, two months after starting talks with potential suitors, Bloomberg News reported. “I laugh when I see people presume or assume a certain outcome,” Doyle said in a telephone interview from Potash’s [...]


Oct 29 2010

Potash’s Doyle Urges Investor Patience

The chief executive of Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan, William J. Doyle, urged patience for investors expecting an alternative to BHP Billiton’s $40 billion bid, two months after starting talks with potential suitors, Bloomberg News reported. “I laugh when I see people presume or assume a certain outcome,” Doyle said in a telephone interview from Potash’s [...]


Oct 29 2010

Potash’s Doyle Urges Investor Patience

The chief executive of Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan, William J. Doyle, urged patience for investors expecting an alternative to BHP Billiton’s $40 billion bid, two months after starting talks with potential suitors, Bloomberg News reported. “I laugh when I see people presume or assume a certain outcome,” Doyle said in a telephone interview from Potash’s [...]


Oct 21 2010

Investor Group Plans Bid for Boston Globe

Will Aaron Kushner finally take The Boston Globe off The New York Times Company’s hands? Mr. Kushner, the owner of the privately held Marian Heath Greeting Cards, told The Globe on Wednesday that he had corralled an investor group to buy the newspaper and associated properties, including The Worcester Telegram & Gazette. While the group [...]


Oct 11 2010

Russian Facebook Investor to Go Public

Investors who have been patiently waiting for a Facebook I.P.O., may be offered a backdoor — through an initial public offering of one of the social network’s investors. Mail.ru Group, the Russian Internet group formerly known as Digital Sky Technologies, said Monday that was planning to go public on the London Stock exchange by the [...]