I've been a business reporter for a while. I've covered Wall Street, venture capital and now private equity. I'm always looking for a scoop or something to talk about. I'm the eternal optimist and am still waiting for the Chicago Cubs to win the World Series. Yes, I believe.
To end your Monday, a judge rules the NSA program to collect our phone data is illegal, Uber tried to rip everyone off this past weekend and Bitcoin crumbles in China.
1 min read · 16 December 2013
Hastings Equity Partners collected $52 million for a November first close, a source tells peHUB.
1 min read · 16 December 2013
BackOffice Associates, which is backed by Goldman Sachs, has acquired Entota Ltd. Financial terms weren't announced. Entota, of Farnborough, U.K., is a SAP Data Services consultancy. In 2008, Goldman invested $30 million in BackOffice.
3 min read · 16 December 2013
To end your Friday, Dave & Buster's goes up for sale again, Twitter reverses its "block" policy and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia lays off 100 people.
1 min read · 13 December 2013
Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe is out marketing for its next pool and seeking a July first close for fund XII, a source tells peHUB.
1 min read · 13 December 2013
Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe is targeting $3 billion for its next fund, according to a source, sister news service peHUB reported.
1 min read · 13 December 2013
To end your Thursday, Instagram adds direct messaging to its service, bendy smartphones are still too expensive to make and JP Morgan will pay more than $1 bln in penalties to end a DOJ probe into whether it provided adequate warnings about Bernie Madoff
1 min read · 12 December 2013
BP Capital, the investment firm founded by T. Boone Pickens, began fundraising earlier this year.
1 min read · 11 December 2013
To end your Thursday, Dennis Kozlowski is working at a software company as a clerk, Snapchat is reportedly raising $54.5 million and South Africa loses a freedom fighter.
1 min read · 05 December 2013
Aramark Holdings, one of the big club deals from the last decade, is slated to go public next week. The IPO would give Aramark's private equity investors a path to exit, but the food service provider will enter the public markets saddled with much debt.
4 min read · 05 December 2013
