| N.B. businesses benefit from N.S. HST hike Businesses in New Brunswick are already seeing an increase in customers only a few weeks after Nova Scotia hiked its Harmonized Sales Tax. cbc.ca |
Local-Services Startup Redbeacon Raises $7.4 Million (at New York Times) Redbeacon, the service listings startup that won the top prize at the TechCrunch50 conference last fall, just raised $7.4 million in its first round of funding, VentureBeat reported. us.rd.yahoo.com |
[$$] Google to Acquire Start-Up Angstro (at The Wall Street Journal) Google to Acquire Start-Up Angstro Google said it acquired start-up Angstro, part of the search giant s efforts to build a social-networking service that can effectively compete with Facebook. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Baffinland Iron Mines shocked by takeover bid Baffinland Iron Mines Corp. has received a hostile takeover bid from an Australian company for control of a large undeveloped iron ore deposit in Nunavut. cbc.ca |
Kill BHP bid for PotashCorp: Jarislowsky One of the biggest shareholders of Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan called Friday for Ottawa to reject BHP Billiton's $38.6-billion US takeover proposal for the Saskatoon-based fertilizer giant. cbc.ca |