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- Onexin to acquire Forbes - Rumour
- Russian private investment firm Onexin is reportedly in talks to acquire US business magazine publisher Forbes. Onexin Group is led by Russian billionaire Mickhail Prokhorov and has interests in mining, energy and nanotechnology industries. However, the private equity group has...
- Articles 2008-11-24
- Onexim to acquire Forbes - Rumour
- Russian private investment firm Onexim is reportedly in talks to acquire US business magazine publisher Forbes. Onexim Group is led by Russian billionaire Mickhail Prokhorov and has interests in mining, energy and nanotechnology industries. However, the private equity group has...
- Articles 2008-11-24
- Palm seeks cash for new smartphone
- Palm is looking for investors as it prepares to launch a new smartphone. The phone maker is forcing Elevation Partners to sell almost half of the USD100m worth of Palm shares the private equity investor bought in January. Elevation will receive the USD49m it paid for the shares, with...
- Articles 2009-03-10
- Skype founders aim to buy firm back from eBay - Rumour
- The founders of internet call service Skype have secured the backing of four private equity firms in a bid to buy back the company from eBay. KKR, Warburg Pincus, Providence and Elevation Partners are reported to support the bid by Niklas Zennstrom and Jannus Friis to...
- Articles 2009-04-13
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- Palm Gets a Lifeline from Elevation Partners
- Tech Confidential submits: Elevation Partners has been insistent that it would not sell its 25% stake in struggling smartphone maker Palm Inc. PALM, and on Monday it put its money where its mouth is. Silicon Valley's Palm announced that the private equity firm has invested an additional $100...
- External links 2008-12-22
- Forbes Announces Elevation Partners Investment in Family Held Company; Both Companies Cite Exciting Opportunities for Growth and The Future
- NEW YORK -- Forbes, a family held company, announced today an investment in the company by Elevation Partners in which the private equity firm has become a minority shareholder in a newly formed company, Forbes Media, LLC, the publisher of Forbes magazine, Forbes.com and other media properties. In making...
- Research articles 2006-08-07
- Elevation Partners Executes Sale of BioWare Corp. and Pandemic Studios to Electronic Arts
- MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Elevation Partners today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement with Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:ERTS) under which Electronic Arts will acquire Elevation's portfolio company VG Holding Corp., which is comprised of BioWare Corp. and Pandemic Studios. Under the terms of the agreement, EA will pay up...
- Research articles 2007-10-12
- Elevation Partners Keeping the Faith with Palm
- Eric Savitz (Barron's) submits: Elevation Partners co-founder Roger McNanmee said in a statement that his firm has no plans to exit its investment in Palm PALM. McNamee, who is a member of the Palm board, said he is “very pleased” with the progress the company is making. As...
- External links 2008-11-25
- Homestore, Inc. Announces $100 Million Strategic Investment by Elevation Partners
- WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. -- Homestore, Inc. (NASDAQ:HOMS), the leading provider of real estate media and technology solutions, today announced that Elevation Partners, a private equity firm, has agreed to invest $100 million in Homestore in the form of convertible preferred stock.
- Research articles 2005-11-07
- Palm Stockholders Approve Transaction Involving Investment by Elevation Partners
- SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Palm, Inc., (Nasdaq:PALM) today announced that Palm stockholders have approved proposals that will permit Palm to conclude a $325 million investment by Elevation Partners, L.P., borrow up to $400 million in an associated debt financing, make a cash distribution of $9.00 per share to Palm stockholders, and...
- Research articles 2007-09-12
- Music Publishing Veteran to Join Elevation Partners as an Executive-in-Residence
- MENLO PARK, Calif. -- The private equity firm Elevation Partners announced today that Leslie E. Bider, the former Chairman and CEO of Warner/Chappell Music, Inc has joined the firm as an Executive-in-Residence. In this role, Mr. Bider will assist the firm in evaluating investments, primarily in the music industry and...
- Research articles 2006-05-23
- Bono's Elevation VC Adds $100M to Palm
- SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Palm Inc said on Monday that private equity firm Elevation Partners agreed to boost its investment in the struggling smartphone maker by $100 million, sending its shares surging 24 percent. The capital infusion comes as Palm, the maker of the Centro and Treo smartphones, gears up...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Palm Wins Vote of Confidence from Elevation in the Form of $100 Million
- Seth Gilbert submits: In June of 2007, private equity firm Elevation Partners announced they were committing $325 million and several experts, including iPod guru Jon Rubinstein, to turn Palm’s PALM floundering ship around. Palm’s CEO Ed Colligan predicted it would take about 18 months to chart...
- External links 2008-12-23
- Palm's Infusion from Elevation: Lifesaving?
- Elevation Partners, the private equity firm that gave Treo maker Palm PALM a new lease on life back in September, 2007, buying 25% of the company for $325 million, has done it again, agreeing to plow $100 million in the company in return for preferred shares, convertible into stock at...
- External links 2008-12-22
- Palm reveals the thinking behind a huge bet that began on a beach in Mexico
- As Palm introduced the new Palm Pre phone and the Palm Web OS platform today, its executives told the story of how they hatched the plot to save the company. Jon Rubinstein, the former Apple executive who spearheaded the iPod development, had retired from Apple and was living at a...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Eidos plc Offer Update: Unanimous Recommendation of SCi Offer
- LONDON -- Further to the announcement made on 1 April 2005, the Board of Eidos plc (LSE: EID.L; NASDAQ: EIDSY) ("the Board") has undertaken further discussions and due diligence with both the Board of SCi Entertainment Group plc ("SCi") in relation to SCi's share offer of one SCi share per...
- Research articles 2005-04-07
- Bono-linked investors take stake in Forbes group
- NEW YORK AFP — The Forbes group has said it was selling a minority stake in its publishing arm to a private equity firm that includes rock icon Bono among its partners. The US group, whose Forbes Media arm publishes Forbes magazine, Forbes.com and other bibles of the wealthy,...
- Research articles 2006-08-07
- Eidos plc Offer Update
- LONDON -- As shareholders will be aware, since the announcement of the recommended cash offer of 50 pence per Eidos share by Elevation Partners ("Elevation") on 21 March 2005 (the "Elevation Offer"), a further offer for the Company has been announced by SCi Entertainment Group Plc ("SCi") in the form...
- Research articles 2005-04-01
- Onexim Group Buys Forbes Russia: Report
- Moscow-based PE firm Onexim Group has bought Forbes Russia, says Venturebeat, citing a translation of reports on Quintura's blog. Terms were not disclosed. In Russia, Forbes is published by Germany's Axel Springer, which uses visual search site Quintura. Forbes representatives didn't respond to our requests for comment.The purchase comes...
- External links 2008-11-24
- Forbes.com Underscores Premium Online Content's Monetization Morass
- Yesterday, I read one of those news items that seemed strangely overlooked, maybe because a lot of people who read it didn't really grasp what was going on: it was the story that the legendary Silicon Valley v.c. Roger McNamee was stepping down from the board of Forbes Media, which...
- Blog posts 2009-05-19
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