Family Dollar

Investor Nelson Peltz’s Trian Group is bidding $55 to $60 per share for Family Dollar Stores, sending shares of the dis counter up 31 percent in extended trading.

Facebook hire

Microsoft’s global ad vertising head, Carolyn Everson, will be joining Facebook as one of its top sales executives, the All Things Digital Web site reported.

BofA fee

Bank of America is levying a $59 annual fee on some cardholders based on the customer’s risk profile. The fee will affect about 5 percent of the bank’s credit-card customers.

Gap buy

Edward Lampert, the chairman of Sears Hold ings, reported that he and his hedge fund acquired a 5.8 percent stake in re tailer Gap. The invest ment group holds 34.9 million Gap shares with a current market value of almost $751 million.

Kilar wooed

Groupon, the daily deal Web site, approached Hulu CEO Jason Kilar to gauge his interest in be coming head of world wide operations, Bloom berg News reported.