Private equity giant Silver Lake??disclosed in an SEC filing that it has begun raising a new $75 million fund to be used to lend money to late stage pre-IPO technology companies. The new fund, called Silver Lake Waterman, will raise additional capital through the U.S. Small Business Administration. A source close to Silver Lake said ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 23:54

U.S.-listed Chinese generic drug maker Simcere Pharmaceutical Group gained 3.2% yesterday on word that another Chinese pharmaceutical company has been purchasing its shares. Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group, a Shanghai-listed pharmaceutical company controlled by Chinese billionaire Guo Guangchang, said in a statement at the Shanghai Stock Exchange yesterday that a wholly owned subsidiary had raised its ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 05:26

With this new social e-commerce play, Sina would also have another way to monetize the Weibo platform besides the plain display advertising.

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 22:54

We expect the number of active users and the engagement metrics to drop significantly if the Chinese government starts censoring updates even by registered users or takes any stringent action against them.

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 22:53

Tomorrow at midnight millions of Americans will queue up at movie theaters bearing tickets to be among the first to see the most anticipated movie of the season, The Hunger . According to online-ticketing company Fandango, the film is already accounting for 92% of its daily sales, and has surpassed the first Twilight film?s pre-sales ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 13:55

In trading on Tuesday, shares of Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Co., Ltd. (NYSE: SHI) crossed above their 200 day moving average of $38.32, changing hands as high as $38.67 per share. Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Co., Ltd. shares are currently trading up about 1.1% on the day. The chart below shows the one year performance of SHI ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 17:55

? With a human population over 51 million, projected to hit a whopping 70 million by 2027, the increasingly fragmented British wilds - ancient, prized, and ever contested - are more urgently relevant than ever. Romantic poets did little to allay ill-boding premonitions - Wordsworth, for example, had little use for locomotives plowing through the ...

pubblicato il: 17/03/2012 - 02:24

Months of perfect winter sunshine without a single winter storm. Crocuses opening in January and daffodils in bloom by February. Spring, at a time when we are all typically still hunkered by the space heater, cursing ourselves for our failure to live in Tahiti. Yes, it's been a generous winter. But even as March springs ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 14:23

Six ways that fans saved "Community" - and how to use the same methods to get what you want.

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 03:53

Ridley Scott?s??Prometheus will hit theaters almost exactly 33 years after the release of Scott?s most famous film, Alien. This is understandably generating a lot of buzz, and I am both extremely optimistic and a little bit trepidatious about the film??(which made my top science fiction films to watch in 2012 list.) Here?s a few reasons ...

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 05:54