Vienna-based Ed-Tech GoStudent, which provides one-to-one video-based online tutoring, has hit unicorn status less than 2.5 years after finding its current business model, following a successful funding round of €205 million. This comes just months after the...
Masmovil’s $2.38bn takeover of Spanish telecoms rival Euskaltel has won state approval, government sources said on Wednesday. The friendly merger, which received the greenlight from Spain’s competition watchdog last week but still needs final regulatory approval,...
San Francisco-based investment firm Sixth Street and US billionaire Michael Dell have invested in the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) San Antonio Spurs. According to CNBC’s Leslie Picker, Sixth Street has purchased a 20 per cent stake in the franchise,...
Americans may face persistently higher inflation than they’ve been accustomed to because employers have had to pay to bring workers back in front-line industries, Blackstone CEO, Stephen Schwarzman, said at the Qatar Economic forum on Wednesday. Schwarzman’s remarks...
Private-equity firm Banner Ridge Partners has exceeded the $600 million target for its fourth secondary fund by collecting around $800 million since it began fundraising earlier this year, according to people familiar with the matter. The New York-based firm expects... 