Mergers & Acquisitions

Solidifi Acquires Southwest Financial Services Ltd., One Of The Largest Independent Providers Of Outsourced Services To Home Equity Lenders

Solidifi Acquires Southwest Financial Services Ltd., One Of The Largest Independent Providers Of Outsourced Services To Home Equity Lenders PR Newswire BUFFALO, N.Y. and CINCINNATI, May 4, 2015 BUFFALO, N.Y. and CINCINNATI, May 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Solidifi, a leading independent provider of residential real estate appraisals and the service provider of choice for more than half of the top 100 lenders in the United States , is proud to announce the acquisition of a national, independent provider of outsourced services to home equity lenders […]

Mergers & Acquisitions

XL Group plc and Catlin Group Limited Join Together, Launch Unified Brand and New "Insurance for a Bold New World" Global Marketing Campaign

XL Group plc and Catlin Group Limited Join Together, Launch Unified Brand and New “Insurance for a Bold New World” Global Marketing Campaign PR Newswire DUBLIN, Ireland, May 4, 2015 DUBLIN, Ireland , May 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Following the completion of XL Group plc’s (“XL”) (NYSE: XL) acquisition of Bermuda -based Catlin Group Limited (“Catlin”) on May 1 , XL and Catlin have officially joined operations and today launched a new brand, XL Catlin. A new global marketing campaign, reflecting the greater scale, ambition and opportunity for the combined company to develop innovative risk solutions for complex risk problems will launch May 5 . As of today, XL’s insurance and reinsurance operations will use the brand name XL Catlin. […]

Mergers & Acquisitions

Colliers International Acquires Case Commercial Real Estate Partners

Colliers International Acquires Case Commercial Real Estate Partners Acquisition of one of the top commercial real estate advisors in Texas strategically expands Colliers International’s local platform and service offerings PR Newswire SEATTLE, May 4, 2015 SEATTLE , May 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Leading global commercial real estate services firm Colliers International today announced it has acquired one of the foremost commercial real estate firms in Texas , CASE Commercial Real Estate Partners LLC. Based in Dallas , the boutique firm, which will rebrand to Colliers International immediately, supplements Colliers’ current operations in North Texas and expands the firm’s commercial real estate services in key sectors such as medical office, corporate solutions, retail, self-storage, and investment sales. CASE services both occupiers and investors with 50 professionals providing leasing, property management, and sales services […]

Mergers & Acquisitions

Ascendum Acquires Turner’s Facility Management Software Business Unit

Ascendum Acquires Turner’s Facility Management Software Business Unit Company plans to expand acquired technology and offer as a Cloud service to construction and facility management companies worldwide. PR Newswire CINCINNATI, May 4, 2015 CINCINNATI , May 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Ascendum Solutions, a global information technology (IT) provider, announced today that it completed the acquisition of technology and business assets of FMS, a subsidiary of Turner Construction Company, an international construction services company. The acquisition specifically includes two major products: construction management (c.docs) and facility management (Facilify) software both built on Microsoft’s SharePoint platform. […]

Mergers & Acquisitions

ExWorks Capital Announces Acquisition Of World Trade Finance, Inc.

ExWorks Capital Announces Acquisition Of World Trade Finance, Inc. PR Newswire WASHINGTON, May 4, 2015 WASHINGTON , May 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — ExWorks Capital today announced the acquisition of World Trade Finance, Inc. (“World Trade”) of Burbank, California , a 25-year-old specialty lender active in both the U.S. […]

Mergers & Acquisitions

Gravity4 announces its Ninth Acquisition of adX Search, the leading European Paid Search Platform, integrating the final component into Gravity4’s Marketing Cloud

Gravity4 announces its Ninth Acquisition of adX Search, the leading European Paid Search Platform, integrating the final component into Gravity4’s Marketing Cloud PR Newswire SAN FRANCISCO, May 4, 2015 SAN FRANCISCO , May 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Gravity4, the world’s first High-Frequency Marketing OS, announced the acquisition of adX Search AB, one of the industry leading paid search platforms in Europe that focuses on self-serve optimization and real-time bidding. As a part of this acquisition, the Company will integrate adX Search as, G4 Search, within Gravity4’s Marketing Cloud. […]

Mergers & Acquisitions

Can-Fite subsidiary, OphthaliX, Signs Term Sheet to Acquire Improved Vision Systems Ltd.

Can-Fite subsidiary, OphthaliX, Signs Term Sheet to Acquire Improved Vision Systems Ltd. New OphthaliX strategy aims to combine ophthalmic medical devices and pharmaceutical products to address multi-billion dollar markets in treating ophthalmic diseases PR Newswire PETACH TIKVA, Israel, May 4, 2015 PETACH TIKVA, Israel , May 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Can-Fite BioPharma Ltd . (NYSE MKT: CANF) (TASE:CFBI), a biotechnology company with a pipeline of proprietary small molecule drugs that address inflammatory and cancer diseases, announced today that its subsidiary, OphthaliX, Inc […]

Mergers & Acquisitions

OphthaliX Signs Term Sheet to Acquire Improved Vision Systems Ltd.

OphthaliX Signs Term Sheet to Acquire Improved Vision Systems Ltd. New strategy aims to combine ophthalmic medical devices and pharmaceutical products to address multi-billion dollar markets in treating ophthalmic diseases PR Newswire PETACH TIKVA, Israel, May 4, 2015 PETACH TIKVA, Israel , May 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — OphthaliX Inc. (OTCQB: OPLI) , a clinical-stage company focused on developing therapeutic products for the treatment of ophthalmic disorders and subsidiary of Can-Fite BioPharma Ltd […]

Momentum Stocks

Bear of the Day: Stratasys (SSYS) – Bear of the Day

Stratasys ( SSYS ) recently warned that its first quarter and full year financial results are going to be below expectations. The company provided preliminary results for Q1 that were well below consensus and lowered its full year earnings guidance, prompting analysts to revise their estimates significantly lower. […]

Technicals

Can the Uptrend Continue for MCG Capital (MCGC)? – Tale of the Tape

Investors certainly have to be happy with MCG Capital Corp ( MCGC ) and its short term performance. After all, the stock has jumped by 11.6% in the past 4 weeks, and it is also above its 20 Day Simple Moving Average as well. This is certainly a good trend, but investors are probably asking themselves, can this positive trend continue for MCGC? […]

Technicals

Can the Rally in Titan International (TWI) Shares Continue? – Tale of the Tape

Titan International Inc ( TWI ) has been on the move lately as the stock has risen by 22.4% in the past four weeks, and it is currently trading well above its 20-Day SMA. This is a pretty solid move higher, but the question that has to be on investors’ minds right now is; can this trend continue? While there can be no telling for sure, it is certainly encouraging that earnings estimates have risen in the past few weeks on the company, suggesting that sentiment on TWI is moving in the right direction […]