Alibaba buys stake in online shopping firm ShopRunner

Alibaba buys stake in online shopping firm ShopRunner

Reuters 16 August 2013 Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba Group, which is preparing for an initial public offering in Hong Kong, has bought a minority stake in online shopping company ShopRunner, the Financial Times reported on Friday. The acquisition is part of a...
L’Oreal to Buy Magic Holdings International for $843m

L’Oreal to Buy Magic Holdings International for $843m

Bloomberg L’Oreal SA, the world’s largest cosmetics maker, agreed to buy China’s Magic Holdings International Ltd. for HK$6.54 billion ($843 million) to expand in a market where sales growth is outpacing that of the company. L’Oreal will pay HK$6.30 a share in cash...
Boost for Ghana green economy

Boost for Ghana green economy

Ghana Web The future of business investments in Ghana should move in the direction of ventures that add value to the local eco-system, says the Venture Capital Trust Fund (VCTF). The Fund is at the forefront of promoting ‘impact investing’, a concept that accommodate...
CSC buys Austin’s Infochimps to delve deeper into ‘big data’

CSC buys Austin’s Infochimps to delve deeper into ‘big data’

Austin Business Journal Cloud services provider Infochimps Inc. has been acquired by a giant based in Virginia. Computer Sciences Corp. bought Austin-based Infochimps, but the company hasn’t issued an announcement. On Tuesday, Infochimps CEO Jim Kaskade posted a...
Whirlpool to Buy Majority Stake in Hefei Sanyo

Whirlpool to Buy Majority Stake in Hefei Sanyo

The Wall Street Journal 13 August 2013 Whirlpool Corp. has agreed to buy a majority stake in Chinese home-appliances maker Hefei Rongshida Sanyo Electric Co., giving Whirlpool a set of appliance brands that span the Chinese market where it has struggled to grow. The...