Singaporean hotel booking and management platform RedDoorz raises $70 million in latest funding round

RedDoorz is faces strong competition from Softbank-backed OYO. RedDoorz, a Singaporean hotel booking and management platform, has raised $70 million in its ongoing funding round. This is its second funding round so far in 2019. Asia Partners, a Singaporean private-equity firm is leading the funding round, which also saw the participation of Mirae Asset-Naver Asia…

BlackRock in advanced talks to take over U.S. cyber security firm Cofense Inc

Complicating the negotiations is the fact that a July 19 deadline that was set by CFIUS has lapsed. Further, the U.S. government has also joined in as a trustee to oversee the sale. In a significant development, according to sources familiar with the matter at hand, following a U.S. national security panel asking Pamplona Capital…

Digital Colony raises $4.05 billion for digital infrastructure fund

The development is significant since typically buyout funds focus on physically infrastructure. In contrast Digital Colony’s fund illustrates how investors are now seeking assets that support the digital economy. According to sources familiar with the matter at hand, private equity firm Digital Colony, which has the backing of U.S. real estate investor Thomas Barrack, has…

British satellite operator Inmarsat Plc to go private in $3.4 billion deal

Inmarsat Plc top shareholder Lansdowne Partners and the company’s directors consider the terms of the deal to be “fair and reasonable” and expect shareholders to unanimously vote in favor of it. In a significant development, a private equity-led consortium has agreed to acquire Inmarsat Plc for nearly $3.4 billion in cash. In 2018, the British…

Adobe Systems inc to acquire Magento Commerce for $1.68 billion in cash

The acquisition is aimed at bolstering Adobe’s Experience Cloud business. In what is stated to be Adobe Systems Inc’s biggest deal in a decade, the U.S. software company disclosed it would be acquiring Magento Commerce, an e-commerce services provider, from private equity firm Permira for $1.68 billion in cash. Following the news, shares of Adobe…

Silicon Valley startup Nuro raises $92 million in a series A funding round

Nuro’s autonomous automated vehicles are targeting the goods delivery segment. Smaller in size than a conventional sedan, they can be customized to hold upto 10 shopping bags, or be configured to accomodate custom inserts, such as a dry-cleaning rack, a heating or a cooling unit. On Tuesday, Nuro, a Silicon Valley start-up firm disclosed, it…

Western Digital led consortium wants $464 million from Apple to help finance its bid for Toshiba’s chip business

While Toshiba has narrowed down the pool of suitors, all the bids have Apple, its key customer, as a common denominator. On Friday, Japan’s Kyodo news agency reported that a group, which includes Western Digital, has sought $464 million (50 billion yen) from Apple Inc to help finance a bid for Toshiba Corp’s NAND chip…