  | | | | TOKYO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - SoftBank Corp President Masayoshi Son came out swinging on Tuesday against Dish Network Corp's rival bid for Sprint Nextel Corp, saying the satellite TV company would cripple Sprint with debt and was ill-prepared to run a wireless service. | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - A private equity group made up of Bain Capital LLC and Golden Gate Capital Corp has emerged as the lead contender to buy BMC Software Inc for more than $6.5 billion, three people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. | | | |  | | | | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc has abandoned an effort to acquire a majority stake in online video website Dailymotion due to objections by the French government, according to media reports, scrapping what would have been the biggest deal in the 10-month tenure of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer. | | | |  | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire investor Carl Icahn increased his stake in speech recognition and digital imaging software maker Nuance Communications Inc from 9.27 percent to 10.72 percent, a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission showed on Tuesday. | | | |  | | | | (Reuters) - Gunmaker Sturm Ruger & Co Inc said it was looking at the accounts of up-for-sale rival Freedom Group but said it was unlikely it would make a bid. | | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Howard Marks, co-founder and chairman of Oaktree Capital, the world's largest distressed debt investor, said on Tuesday that his firm is buying European corporate debt. | | | | | | (Reuters) - Leo Hindery's InterMedia raised its offer for cable network Outdoor Channel Holdings Inc to $237 million in cash, outbidding a rival offer from Stan Kroenke's Kroenke Sports & Entertainment LLC. | | | | | | (Reuters) - Life sciences-focused software company Veeva Systems is planning an initial public offering that could come in the third quarter and has selected banks to lead the deal, according to two people familiar with the matter. | | |  | | | | NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. retailer Best Buy Co Inc retreated from an ill-timed European expansion on Tuesday by selling its stake in a joint venture to Carphone Warehouse Group for less than half of what it paid five years ago. | | |  | | | | | MUMBAI/LONDON (Reuters) - Unilever plans to pay up to $5.4 billion to raise its stake in its Indian subsidiary, making its biggest deal in 13 years a huge bet on the strength of demand for personal care and food products in Asia's third-largest economy. | | | |  |  | | | A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today | | |  | |  | | | The latest Reuters articles on M&A, IPOs, private equity, hedge funds and regulatory updates delivered to your inbox each day. Register Today | | | | | | » MORE NEWSLETTERS | |
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