Your Money: Home-equity loans tougher to get (USA Today)

GREENWICH, Conn., Aug. 23, 2007 / -- Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (GWI) (NYSE:GWR) Chief Financial Officer Timothy J. Gallagher will present at the Morgan Keegan 2007 Equity Conference in Memphis, Tenn., on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007, at 3:45 p.m. CDT. Interested investors may access Mr. Gallagher's presentation via live Internet webcast at the GWI web site (http://www.gwrr.com/) under "Investors." The ...more

Blackstone in talks to buy Wind stake: source (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Private equity firm Blackstone Group is in talks to buy a minority stake in Italy's No. 2 fixed-line phone operator Wind, two years after it lost out in a bid battle for the company, a person familiar with the situation said on Wednesday.

Syscom Emirates Announces Massive Growth of Fixed Line SMS Phones (ThomasNet)

Syscom Emirates LLC, a subsidiary of M'Sharie, the private equity arm of Dubai Investments PJSC, has recently announced that sales of Syscom 2071SMS and Syscom SD8421 fixed line phones have dramatically increased, fuelled by the popularity of Etisalat's new fixed-line SMS service that was introduced several months ago. The phones, which enable customers to send and receive SMS messages between ...more

SLI to split private equity arm's profits (The Scotsman: Business)

STANDARD Life Investments (SLI) is handing 40 per cent control of its £3.4 billion private equity arm to nine of its investment managers, partly to protect clients in the event of its parent group being taken over.