Acquisitions

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• Franklin fund bought into Cadbury hoping for buyout deal

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 791
  Filed under: Company News , Investing , Kraft Foods Some of the money managers at fund and money management firm Franklin Resources ( BEN ) must be clairvoyant. They bought Cadbury ( CBY ) shares before Kraft ( KFT ) made its buyout offer for the U.K. company. Franklin now owns at least 7.2% of Cadburys shares. ...
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• Bharti Airtel not looking for new buys, says Sunil Mittal

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) Bharti Airtel chief Sunil Mittal Sunday said his company was not actively looking for new acquisitions after its talks for a mega billion-dollar tie-up with South Africa’s MTN group collapsed.“We are taking a break,” Mittal told reporters on the sidelines of the India Economic Summit, ...
  12 hours ago

• This Weeks (Belated) Acquisitions

  
  The Little Professor — Authority: 535
  Stanley G. Crawford, Some Instructions to My Wife (Dalkey Archive, 1985).  Reprint of Crawfords parody of Victorian marriage manuals.  (eBay) L. H. Myers, The Root and the Flower (NYRB, 2001).  Reprint of a series of novels set in sixteenth-century India.  (eBay) Caroline Levine and Mark W. Turner, eds., ...
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• Merrill Bonuses Raised Issues in Merger with Bank of America

  
  The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation — Authority: 500
  (Editor’s Note: This post comes is based on an article that first appeared in the New York Law Journal .) On Jan. 1, 2009, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. (”Merrill”) merged with Bank of America Corporation (”BofA”). [1] At the end of 2008, prior to the close of the merger, Merrill awarded approximately ...
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• The Chasm Between the Economy and Finance

  
  Alexandria — Authority: 443
  I never feel comfortable with self promotion, but for the indefatigable out there check out my latest essay under the Featured Works section, “ The Chasm Between the Economy and Finance .” For the not-so-indefatigable, just check out the intro, corporate profits, and the ending. Comments, as always, are welcomed. ...
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• EBay Settles Suit Over Skype Sale

  
  DealBook — Authority: 786
  EBay has formally settled the litigation around its sale of Skype, settling a dispute with the online calling services founders.
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• Suns Business in Shambles Thanks to "Uncertainty Associated With the Proposed Acquisition by Oracle"

  
  Digital Daily — Authority: 683
  “The decrease in ____ revenue was primarily due to _____ “and uncertainty associated with the proposed acquisition by Oracle (ORCL) and increased competition.” That refrain is repeated over and over again in Sun’s (JAVA) latest grim earnings report which was filed without much in the way of announcement ...
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• Skype sale moves forward, patent disputes settled

  
  Business 2.0 Press — Authority: 118
  eBay is inching closer to selling it’s popular internet telephony service Skype after reaching an agreement with Joltid and Joost M.V. over patent infringement litigation. The settlement did not come cheap. Skype founders Niklas Zennstorm and Janus Friis have given up a lot of equity, bringing their total stake in ...
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• Skypes founders prove reputation as the internets deadliest operators

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Over the last decade there have been plenty of internet entrepreneurs and thinkers who have been recognised for the subtle - and not so subtle - impact they have made on the way the world operates. Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, web creator Tim Berners-Lee and even Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, for example, can ...
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• eTaxPortal tax process automation solution acquired by Namtra Corporation

  
  eNewsChannels — Authority: 438
  RESTON, Va. — Namtra Business Solutions, a 2009 Deloitte 500 fastest growing company, today announced that its software division has completed the acquisition of eTaxPortal, a Web-based tax process automation solution for today’s tax department. It provides a single gateway to commonly used tax tools. The key ...
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• Skype founders wrestle back $400m share of company

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  • Creators receive 14% of stock in $2bn sale • Deal ends long running dispute over companys future The founders of Skype have regained a significant stake in the internet company after settling a contentious legal dispute that had threatened to derail its $2bn sale. The deal, which was announced today, will give ...
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• CF Industries Rejects Final Agrium Bid

  
  DealBook — Authority: 786
  CF Industries spurned Agriums latest hostile takeover bid on Friday, saying the offer from the rival fertilizer maker "continues to substantially undervalue the company."
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• Microsoft Chief Eyes Yahoo Partnership Outside U.S.

  
  DealBook — Authority: 786
  Microsofts chief executive, Steve Ballmer, said Thursday that the company might look to extend its search engine partnership with Yahoo outside the United States, if it gets regulatory approval.
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• DealZone Daily

  
  DealZone — Authority: 435
  Poland’s top utility PGE jumped 13 percent at its market debut on the Warsaw bourse today. The IPO, at $2.1 billion, is Europe’s biggest this year. And IPO flows from Asia continue — South Korea’s No. 2 insurer Korea Life Insurance may raise around $2 billion in the country’s biggest IPO since Lotte ...
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• CVS Caremark: Pharmacy Gain, PBM Pain

  
  Drug Channels — Authority: 118
  CVS Caremark disclosed unexpected problems in its PBM business yesterday, spooking investors and sending its stock down by 20%. See Dow Jones’ coverage: CVS Pharmacy Benefit Struggles Renew Merger Benefits Debate Judging by the financials, it sure looks like CVS Caremark has sacrificed its PBM business for the ...
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• Column on the Black and Decker Mfg Co sale to Stanley - in The Tentacle

  
  Kevin Dayhoff - Soundtrack — Authority: 510
  The Tentacle: Pulling the Plug on Maryland Kevin E. Dayhoff Wednesday, November 4, 2009 http://www.thetentacle.com/author.cfm?MyAuthor=41 http://tinyurl.com/ygnvfs2 Word spread quickly through Maryland early Monday evening that the Black and Decker Manufacturing Company is “merging” with The ...
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• Apex court begins hearing Reliance gas dispute afresh (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) The Supreme Court Thursday began hearing afresh the dispute over gas from Krishna-Godavari basin, assigned to Reliance Industries, with the Anil Ambani Group once again accusing the oil ministry of colluding with the Mukesh Ambani firm.Harish Salve, counsel for Reliance Industries, presented ...
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• In Surprise Move, Wynn Drops Racetrack Bid

  
  DealBook — Authority: 786
  Stephen A. Wynn, the Las Vegas gambling impresario, on Wednesday dropped out of the bidding to revive the Aqueduct racetrack in Queens with 4,500 electronic slot machines, just two days before competing operators were to deliver their final offers for the complex.
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• DealZone Daily

  
  DealZone — Authority: 435
  Mergers and acquisitions activity may be predicted to increase over the next year but in the short-term it may provide another reason for deals to be postponed . Just ask General Motors . Other deals news in the media on Thursday: * An investment company controlled by the Shanghai city government will own a ...
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• E.U. Faces Tricky Decision on Oracle Deal

  
  DealBook — Authority: 786
  The European Commission must decide in the coming days whether or not to issue formal charges against Oracles $7.4 billion offer to acquire Sun Microsystems -- and neither of its options looks appealing.
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