Hints and tips:
...On the first day of the trade show, just as I was heading into the metro station, a staff member asked everyone to leave because the train had “unexpectedly” halted operation....
...Giphy meets its ‘boomer’ fate In addition to holding the rights to this widely recognised meme, Shutterstock has now picked up a whole trove of lowbrow internet humour....
...The firm’s most recent flagship private equity fund, Fund IX, has achieved a gross IRR of 49 per cent, according to a letter sent to investors on Thursday and seen by DD....
...(Bloomberg) Holding grudges Longtime Ant Group investors await a massive payday come the company’s dually-listed initial public offering....
...The bank’s shares have sunk to all-time lows this year after a revelation that it was not holding enough capital because of regulatory reporting errors....
...That meant it may not have been holding as much capital against them as it should. Metro’s shares fell 40 per cent on the news....
...Bruno Crastes, the chief executive of H2O Asset Management, is stepping down from the Tennor Holding board, a company owned by Lars Windhorst....
...Lightower’s dense fibre footprint is well-located in top metro markets in the Northeast and is well-positioned to facilitate small cell deployments by our customers.”...
...RBC earned just $5m in deal fees for selling Rural/Metro....
...Goldman owns Metro under the “merchant banking” clause of the bank holding company act, which allows banks to own commercial businesses for a holding period of 10 years....
...The writer is the founder and former chairman of Metro Bank...
...The move followed Tribune’s $2.73bn acquisition of 19 stations from Local TV Holdings LLC in the industry’s biggest transaction in six years....
...“Either shareholders have a bigger bill for Metro or they get left with an even more subscale US asset,” the person said....
...“There are still notable holdouts, including the Washington Post, USA Today and many metros that fear the loss of users seeking breaking news to other free websites and potential loss of online ad revenue...
...Bankers suggest that in order to be sufficient, such concessions would have to be significant and include perhaps the sale of spectrum to Metro PCS or another second tier mobile operator....
...Emirates Investment Holdings, in turn, is handing over its 50 per cent stake in a Gold Coast tower to Sunland in a no-cash deal....
...The battle for control of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has become a three-way fight after Lions Gate Entertainment submitted a merger proposal to lenders of the debt-laden studio, according to people familiar with...
...The focus now appears to be on Dubai Holding (the conglomerate owned by Dubai’s ruler). MS Dubai Holdings is not of the size of Dubai World....
...The RTA is using the naming revenue to help meet the Dh15.5bn price tag for the two line metro system, scheduled to open in September....
...CBS has added content from partners including Sony, Endemol, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayor and PBS, to TV.com, the site it acquired in the $1.8bn takeover last year of CNET Networks, the technology web site operator...
...It has also invested in prominent US media groups, including Hulu, the new online video platform, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Univision and Warner Music....
...“At the low end, buyers are more sensitive to what’s happening in the broader mortgage market,” says Gregory Heym, chief economist at Terra Holdings LLC, a privately held real estate services company in...
...Metro, the German retailer, said earlier this month that it was not interested in acquiring it. Carrefour declined to comment Friday....
...Best known for its participation in deals for Warner Music and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the US and Kabel Deutschland in Europe, Providence has hired Andrew Rickards – a former Goldman Sachs media and telecoms...
...Casino said the sale of its Polish operations to Metro of German and Tesco of the UK would help it cut net debt by €925m....
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