FT Adviser Hargreaves Lansdown braces itself for Royal Mail demandFT AdviserHargreaves Lansdown is advising interested investors to take advantage of the narrow window for buying shares in Royal Mail. Royal Mail IPO share offer opens later today (27 September) with the price range set at £2.60p to £3.30p per share, …
Read More »Banks get slim fees for privatisation of UK’s Royal Mail – Reuters
Banks get slim fees for privatisation of UK's Royal MailReutersLONDON, Sept 27 (Reuters) – The investment banks working on the privatisation of Britain's Royal Mail postal service stand to share a maximum fee pot of just under 24 million pounds ($38.4 million), around a third below the typical amount for …
Read More »Royal Mail Valued at $5.3 Billion – Wall Street Journal
Royal Mail Valued at $5.3 BillionWall Street JournalLONDON—The U.K. government said Friday it would sell a majority stake in Royal Mail Group Ltd. in an initial public offering that values the state-owned postal service at as much as £3.3 billion ($5.29 billion), marking the biggest privatization in … More: continued …
Read More »Lewes post office dresses up for celebration
The Lewes Preserve Our Post Office project is turning heads as workers transform landscaping so visitors and residents can see and appreciate the building’s outstanding architecture. Lewes resident Bruce Chandler, a professional woodworker, asked friends J. Kevin McBride and Tim Cisco if they would help him. McBride, a landscape architect …
Read More »FedEx Racing Driver Accepts March of Dime Award at 75th Anniversary Celebration
WASHINGTON–Sept. 26, 2013: FedEx Racing driver Denny Hamlin will be honored with the "Champion for Babies" award at Thursday night's March of Dimes Volunteer Leadership Conference dinner and gala in Washington, D.C. More: continued here
Read More »eBay Pays $800 Million for Payments Service, Braintree – Forbes
International Business Times eBay Pays $800 Million for Payments Service, BraintreeForbes14 months ago, the CEO of Chicago-based Braintree, a Web and mobile payment processing service, told me that he thought his company could be worth $1 billion. On September 26, he got 80% of the way there when eBay announced …
Read More »Royal Mail Provides a Model for USPS
NEW YORK (TheStreet) — While in Sheffield, England recently, I decided to mail our vacation presents back home rather than hauling them on the plane. So we visited the Royal Mail. We didn't go to a stale government office, but to a brightly lit section of a local department store, …
Read More »Royal Mail sold today – BBC News
BBC News Royal Mail sold todayBBC NewsWithin a few hours, any of us will be able to apply for Royal Mail shares – either online, with a pack obtained at a post office or through a financial specialist. And the process of offering shares to big investors will also begin. …
Read More »EBay’s $800M Braintree Deal Expands Mobile Payments – Bloomberg
EBay's $800M Braintree Deal Expands Mobile PaymentsBloomberg26 (Bloomberg) — David Marcus, President at Paypal, offers details on EBay's boost to its mobile payments business with the purchase of Braintree for $800 million in cash. He speaks on Bloomberg Television's “Bloomberg West.” Please enable JavaScript … More: continued here
Read More »eBay powers Utah data center with clean energy
E-commerce giant eBay Inc. is doubling up a data center in South Jordan and deploying new technology to power it. San Jose, Calif.-based eBay is opening a new addition at the data center and using Bloom … More: continued here
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