  | | | | LONDON/TOKYO (Reuters) - Royal Bank of Scotland has had contact regarding the possible sale of its U.S. retail business Citizens with Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group while Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group has also considered a bid, people with knowledge of the matter said. | | | | | LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Centrica and its consortium partners said on Tuesday they will buy the retail arm and other assets of Ireland's state-owned Bord Gais for 1.1 billion euros ($1.5 billion), helping the utility expand abroad as it is losing customers at home. | | | |  | | | | MILAN (Reuters) - Luxottica, the maker of Ray-Ban sunglasses, has struck a deal to design, develop and distribute glasses based on Google's Internet-connected Glass eyewear, potentially bringing the new technology to a wider market. | | | |  | | | | LONDON (Reuters) - Troubled British insurer RSA has detailed plans for a 773 million pounds ($1.3 billion) share issue designed to boost its finances in the wake of costly weather-related claims and accounting irregularities in its Irish business. | | | |  | | | | ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss bank Julius Baer has raised its bet on Latin America's largest wealth management market, buying a majority stake in Brazil's GPS for an estimated 100 million Swiss francs ($113 million), as part of a drive to expand abroad. | | | |  | | | | ISTANBUL (Reuters) - British insurer Aviva agreed to sell its Turkish unit Aviva Sigorta to venture fund EMF Capital Partners, the Turkish company said on Tuesday. | | | |  | | | | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Walt Disney Co has agreed to buy Maker Studios, one of YouTube's largest networks, for $500 million, a deal that makes Disney a major online video distributor and should help draw more teens into the Disney entertainment empire. | | | | | | KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian canning company, Kian Joo Can Factory Bhd , has accepted a 1.46 billion ringgit ($442.42 million) takeover offer from private company Aspire Insight Sdn Bhd, according to a stock exchange filing late Monday. | | |  | | | | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - King Digital Entertainment Plc's colorful "Candy Crush Saga" has gone viral on smartphones worldwide, but the company may struggle to replicate that enthusiasm with its upcoming $7.6 billion initial public offering. | | | | | | (Reuters) - Data storage provider Box Inc aims to raise about $250 million in an initial public offering, becoming the latest contender from a wave of "cloud-based" companies to test the frothy market for technology listings. | | | |  |  | | | 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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