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Short seller Spruce Point targets moderator for controversial꧒ Facebook content 

Hedge fund Spruce Point Capital said it has bet against the shares🐓 of a company Fa𒁃cebook uses to screen controversial message chats, claiming the firm has a pattern of painting...

🥂  Blackstone gets stuck with IPO duds this year including Bumble and Oatly ♒

It has been a record-breaking year for IPOs, but it has also been a mixed bag -- and billionaire Stephen Schwarzman’s Blackstone Groupꦜ is am𝓰ong those investors who are picking...

Snoop Dogg talks Death Row Records: 'I should be running that s--t'

🦹 The rapper, now an executive talent consultant with Death Row Records, said the label "should be in my hands."

Women used to be 'scared' of working at Blackstone, co-founder admits

Private equity giant Blackstone struggled for years to recruit women because “they were scared of us,” the firm’s co-founder and chief executive Steve Scℱhwarzman said Tuesday. 

 Blackstone buys majority stake in shapewear mak🌃er Spanx

Investment firm Blackstone Inc will buy a majority stake in Spanx, valuing the shapewear maker at $1.2 billion, the companies said on Wednesday. The deal wi꧙ll allow Spanx to further expand globally and...

Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine sold for $900 million

Reese Witherspoon's entertainment startup Hello Sunshine has been sold for $900 million to a firm backed by private-equity giant Blackstone ಌGroup. 

Stuy Tow𝓰n is getting its own Italian restaurant

A major🍰-league restaurant꧑ team will open Rosemary’s East, a jumbo sister eatery to the West Village’s popular Rosemary on Greenwich Avenue, next week at 350 First Ave. at East 20th...

Blackstone CEO to🧸ok home over hal♒f a billion in 2020

Schwarz༺man, 74, received $86.4 million in compensation and $524.1 million in dividends from his Blackstone sha♎res, a regulatory filing showed on Friday. His net worth is currently pegged by Forbes...

UnitedHealth tꩵo buy Change Healthcare for $8B to boost tech services ꩲ

Health insurer U𝄹nitedHealth Group on Wednesday agreed to buy Change Healthcare for $7.84 billion in an all-cash deal, as it looks to expand its fast-growing healthcare technology business. UnitedHealth will pay $25.75 per...

Blackstone report🌳edly buying a majoritꦬy stake in Ancestry.com

Blackstone Group is taking a majority stake in DNA testing business Ancestry.com. The private-eq🔯uity giant headed by billionaire Stephen Schwarzman is acquiring 75 percent of the familyﷺ history research business...

 Mandalay Bay, MGM Grand casinos sell for $4.6B ♊

ౠ🦄 MGM Resorts International's MGM Grand and Mandalay Bay casino properties are being sold for $4.6 billion in a deal involving private equity giant Blackstone Group. A new joint venture between...

Bumble dating app ends weir♔d relationship with Russian billionair♓e

Bumble — the dating app that promotes itself as empowering women and keeping them safe — has finally ended its awkward relati🐼onship with a co📖ntroversial Russian billionaire. Andrey Andreev —... 

Nielsen open to selling itself in pieces as auction proves a bus𒊎t

An auction to sell Nielsen Holdings appears t♊o be a bust — but the ratings giant has not given up and is now looking to sell itself in pieces, The...

Sal💖e of ATM maker NCR hits a wall: sources

ATM maker NCR may soon need to remove the “for sale” sign from its lawn, two sources close to the situation said. The $🦋3.8 billion Atlanta company, which also makes...

TV ratings firm Nielsen lowerꦺs sale price, extends deadline to lure final bidder   ꦛ

♊ Ratings giant Nielsen Holdings is pulling out all the stops to keep its last remaining bidder at the table, including lowering its asking price and moving back the deadline for...

Blackstone is doubling down on 𒆙investments in ℱother buyout firms

Blackstone Group isn’t satisfied with the steep fees it charges its clients. It also wants a cut of the steep fees that other buyout firms charge their clients. The private-✃equity...

Blackstone backs out o🏅f auction to buy ratings giant Nielsen: Sources 

Private equity giant Blackstone Group 🍌is dropping out of the Nielsen Holdings sales process — putting the future of the auction in doubt, The Post has learned. After months of...

📖 Investor to challenge Zayo Group afte♒r Blackstone bid nixed 

A Bill Ackman protégé is angling to fight Zayo Group Holdings after the company rejected a $6 billion-plus offer in the last few days from the Blackstone Gr൩oup, sources told...

 Ratings giant Nielsen wants to sell itsel🅷f, could fetch $10B

Nielsen just got a pop in the ratings — among deep-pocketed buyout firms, that is. Nielsen Holdings — the 95-year-old consumer research firm best known for its TV-ratings reports —... 🌠

Paul Singer sees path to Arco🦋nic sale despite Grenfell Tower🦄 fire

Aluminum giant Arconic is moving to give bidders more time to fashion offers for its closely watched auction as it tries to make them more comfortable with fina🌟ncial l🦄iabilities related...