Over the past 18 months the firm has bought nine companies including an online self-publishing site, a financial-data firm and one with a technology that newspapers can license for an online-payment system.
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There are cross-selling opportunities with some of the specialised financial companies already in Criteria's portfolio, which includes a vehicle-renting firm and a consumer-credit business.
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The furthest-advanced of the new airship companies, a German-American firm called CargoLifter, is planning a 260-metre-long airship that is intended to lift goods, not passengers.
Castle Trust, a yet-to-be-authorised lender in Britain backed by JC Flowers, a private-equity firm, plans to offer savers investment products tied to a national house-price index.
In the case of Apple, the decision as to what to do with its cash is tied up with a broader discussion about whether the company is transforming itself from being a growth stock - a highly innovative firm that reinvests its profits in expansion and new products - into a mature company with a stable business that pays a regular dividend.
Firm And Architects is teaming up with a Rio-based firm that has won a contract to design the handball arena.
"I'm still fine since I bought my stocks at a slightly cheaper price, but I'll have to think about withdrawing if they go below their initial prices, " said Tatsuyuki Mine, a 36-year-old employee at a real-estate firm who has tens of thousands of dollars invested in Japanese stocks.
An equally big part of the mental drain is that, on a super-firm U.S. Open course, the golfers can't just hit their shots at a particular spot and hope the ball stays there.
This explains tea's particular appeal to the ageing baby-boom generation, suggests Brian Keating of Sage Group, a market-research firm, in a recent report on the industry.
Nokia has also announced that it was buying Earthmine - a Berkley-based firm that uses sensor-equipped cars to create 3D street-level views.
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It took a prolonged war of words and a nasty public fight at the annual general meeting of Atos Origin, a computer-services firm, for Pardus Capital and a London-based hedge fund, Centaurus Capital, to win board seats at the end of May (Atos's chairman was also ousted).
She also found more rewarding work as a mediator and co-founded She Negotiates, a negotiation-training firm.
Even their private lives are no longer off-limits: the boss of Stryker, a medical-devices firm, recently resigned after a kerfuffle over when exactly he should have told the board he was dating an employee.
Mr Messer invited Carlyle, a private-equity firm, to join him in a successful buy-out of this part of the business.
Agari, in other words, is pitching itself not as a spam-filtering company so much as a brand-protection firm.
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Billy Rose, president and co-founder of the Agency, a real-estate firm in Beverly Hills, says that a house designed by Mr. Gallin will often sell for 10% to 30% more than would a comparable home.
His firm is transitioning a Hangzhou-based portfolio company, microfinance service UPG, from a wholly-owned foreign entity to a Chinese firm.
But she got her degree, passed the bar, and landed a sought-after position as an associate at a mid-sized firm.
Normally a private-equity firm buys a company, loads it with debt, fixes a few things, then flips it.
Individual projects and tasks, which were clearly accounted for while we were a 20-person firm can get lost in the cracks of a 50-person company.
Given that the e-mail service had 176m users in December, according to comScore, a market-research firm, that should give Buzz a handy launch pad.
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When U.S. Bank decided to beef up its online investment offerings, it turned to Scivantage, a Jersey-City-based firm which offers a Web-based online investment platform.
On a fishing trip Ciske met Ty A. Bernicke, a certified financial planner with an Eau Claire, Wis. firm started by his CPA father--a firm Ciske had heard good things about.
Heymann's Pacific Mail Order System began as a direct-mail advertising company, which later evolved into a mail-order firm for members of the U.S. Armed Forces serving in Vietnam.
Looking at the fund's risk-adjusted performance over several years offers insight on how the fund weathered different market environments, says Denny Baish, a mutual-fund analyst with Fort Pitt Capital Group, a wealth-management firm based in Pittsburgh.
With support from the Endowment, a Connecticut-based firm called Collective Health has been developing a pilot project that aims to show that a well-designed asthma intervention can save enough money to induce private investors to kick in.
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In its most extreme interpretation, the rule would require a company that hires a labor-law firm to evaluate a potential acquisition with unionized operations, say, to report the relationship even if that blows its cover on secret due diligence activities.
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One reverse commuter, a 30-year-old analyst at a major financial services firm, took a well-paying job in Riverwoods, Ill.
The following year it bought Jefferson Wells, a specialist accounting-staff firm a purchase that was to prove spectacularly well-timed, just before America's Sarbanes-Oxley act caused a surge in demand for staff to work on internal audits.
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