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UPDATE 3-Sprint receives SoftBank waiver to consider Dish offer

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PRESS DIGEST - Financial Times - May 21

Essar Oil to sign fuel-for-cash deal with China Development Bank Read More | View Original Article

Hazards of the Buzzy Startup

Yahoo's $1.1 billion deal for Tumblr is a fairy-tale ending for the blogging site, which fetched a rich price despite its meager revenue. Many other highflying Web startups may not be as lucky. Read More | View Original Article

Hershey Keen for Piece of China

Hershey will introduce a milk-based candy in China and open up a Shanghai R&D center as part of its strategy to build a presence the world's fastest-growing candy market. Read More | View Original Article

Sprint gets waiver from Softbank, permitting discussions with Dish

May 20 (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel said it has received from SoftBank Corp a waiver of various provisions of their merger agreement, permitting it to engage in discussions with Dish Network Corp. Read More | View Original Article

Tip Puts Lobbyist's Career on Hold

Mark Hayes was a Washington policy wonk on a long and steady ascent. A series of emails to a client was all it took to put that carefully crafted career on hold. Read More | View Original Article

Dish eyes LightSquared's Spectrum for $2 bln - Bloomberg

May 20 (Reuters) - U.S. satellite company Dish Network Corp has offered to buy bankrupt broadband company LightSquared Inc's radio frequencies for $2 billion, Bloomberg said, quoting people familiar... Read More | View Original Article

Plight of the Navigators

Martin Essex discovers who is making waves as a top stock picker in this first Europe's Best Analysts survey. Read More | View Original Article

Yahoo rolls out update to make Flickr 'awesome again'

The Internet asked Marissa Mayer to "please make Flickr awesome again," and in turn, the Yahoo CEO is revamping her company's photo-sharing service. Read More | View Original Article

Jamie Dimon Exit Could Be ‘All Downside’: Pro

Pushing out Jamie Dimon would have no benefit for JPMorgan, Brad Hintz says. Read More | View Original Article

Cramer’s Alternative Airline Play for Skeptics

Skeptical of the airline stocks? Cramer suggests giving this play a closer look. Read More | View Original Article

Apple Stock Valuation ‘Crazy’: Former CEO Sculley

Apple isn't being valued as an innovator, John Sculley says. Read More | View Original Article

Cramer: How to Invest Like the Ridiculously Rich

Ridiculously rich? Here’s how Jim Cramer would recommend putting your money to work. Read More | View Original Article

Rockwood pigments businesses attract private equity bids -sources

NEW YORK, May 20 (Reuters) - Specialty chemicals producer Rockwood Holdings Inc's pigments businesses have attracted offers from buyout firms including Blackstone Group LP and Advent International... Read More | View Original Article

QVT Financial Purchase $20M of Convertible Debt Issued by VIVUS (VVUS)

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UPDATE 1-Cinemark movie theater deal gets U.S. antitrust okay

WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) - Cinemark Holdings Inc , which owns 467 theaters in the United States and Latin America with more than 5,000 screens, has won U.S. antitrust approval to buy Rave... Read More | View Original Article

Apple to argue for tax reform, defend tax practices on Tuesday

By Poornima Gupta SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc will argue for a comprehensive corporate tax reform that will levy a "reasonable tax" on foreign earnings and is not dependent on a company's revenue when it goes before a Senate panel on Tuesday to explain its offshore tax practices. Read More | View Original Article

US STOCKS-Wall St ends flat on correction worries

NEW YORK, May 20 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks ended little changed on Monday, with indexes hovering near record levels as concerns about a correction cut earlier gains that had been prompted by news about... Read More | View Original Article

NPS Pharma (NPSP) Announces 6M Common Stock Offering

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Cimatron (CIMT) Announces Common Secondary Offering

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Oaktree Capital (OAK) Announces 6M Class A Common Units Offering

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Laclede (LG) Announces 8.7M Common Stock Offering

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Wesco Aircraft (WAIR) Commences 15M Common Stock Offering for Shareholder

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First Potomac (FPO) Announces 6M Common Share Offering

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TCP Capital (TCPC) Announces 4M Common Stock Offering

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Ironwood Pharm (IRWD) Announces 10.5M Common Offering

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Tesla's fight with America's car dealers

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UK delays award of prison privatisation contract -FT

May 20 (Reuters) - The privatisation of five UK prisons has been delayed by the Ministry of Justice following an investigation into whether it was overcharged on two contracts with private-sector... Read More | View Original Article

Softbank planning 400 bln yen bond sale - Nikkei

May 21 (Reuters) - Softbank Corp is seeking to raise about 400 billion yen ($3.90 billion) through a sale of retail bonds to finance its bid for No.3 U.S. mobile phone carrier Sprint Nextel Corp, the... Read More | View Original Article