Mergers & Acquisitions

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• Google to Acquire AdMob for $750 Million

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 141
  The acquisition will help the Internet search company to speed up efforts to develop more effective tools for creating and placing mobile ads on smart phones and other devices.
  5 hours ago

• Kraft Makes a Hostile Takeover Bid for Cadbury

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Kraft took its $16.3 billion bid for the British chocolate and chewing gum maker directly to shareholders after the Cadbury board rejected the offer as too low.
  10 hours ago

• Kraft Makes $16.3 Billion Hostile Bid for Cadbury

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Kraft on Monday formally made a 9.8 billion ($16.3 billion) hostile bid for Cadbury, just ahead of a deadline imposed by British regulators. Cadbury said the bid undervalued the company.
  11 hours ago

• Northrop Agrees to Sell TASC Consulting Unit

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Ronald D. Sugar, chief of Northrop, said the deal was good for shareholders.
  17 hours ago

• Intense Review Is Expected for NBC Deal

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Comcast’s plan to gain control of NBC Universal, which is expected to be announced soon, is likely to be the first major test of the Obama administration’s media regulators.
  17 hours ago

• AXA Asia-Pacific Rejects $10.2 Billion Breakup Plan

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  The proposal would have left the Australian insurers Asian assets with its French parent, AXA, and its Australian assets with its rival AMP.
  17 hours ago

• Kraft’s Hostile Bid for Cadbury Expected

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  The company is expected to officially begin its bid to create an international food giant after more than two months of posturing.
  19 hours ago

• Northrop to Sell Consulting Unit in $1.65 Billion L.B.O.

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Northrop Grumman agreed on Sunday to sell its TASC government consulting unit to the private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and General Atlantic for $1.65 billion in cash, in another sign that private equity firms are back to their core business of deal-making.
  1 day ago

• 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 ...
  3 days ago

• 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 ...
  3 days ago

• Scripps Buys Major Stake in Travel Channel

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  The deal values the cable channel at nearly a billion dollars, a price that some analysts say they believe is too high.
  3 days ago

• TPG and Pension Plan to Buy IMS Health

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  IMS Health, a health care data company, said Thursday that it had agreed to be acquired by the private equity firm TPG and Canada Pension Plan for $4 billion in cash.
  4 days ago

• Column on the Black and Decker Mfg Co sale to Stanley - in The Tentacle

  
  Kevin Dayhoff - Soundtrack — Authority: 511
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• Report Says Big Buyouts Are Likelier to Default

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  The 10 largest companies bought by private equity companies are performing worse than stand-alone companies or other, smaller deals, according to Moody’s.
  4 days ago

• Breakingviews.com: Offer Incentives for Mergers, but Carefully

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  At their worst, bonuses for acquisitions encourage empire-building and widen the gap between the interests of management and those of shareholders.
  4 days ago

• This week in The Tentacle

  
  Kevin Dayhoff - Soundtrack — Authority: 511
  http://www.thetentacle.com/ Click here for a larger image: http://twitpic.com/oc313 My other The Tentacle columns may be found here: http://www.thetentacle.com/author.cfm?MyAuthor=41 Thursday, November 5, 2009 Happy Days Are Here Again? Chris Cavey Tuesday evening I joined the Republican faithful gathered in ...
  4 days ago

• Scripps Is Said to Win Control of Travel Channel

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Scripps Networks is close a deal to buy a majority stake in the Travel Channel from the cable company, Cox Communications, people briefed on the negotiations told DealBook.
  5 days ago

• Breakingviews.com: Riding the Rails at a High Price

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Warren E. Buffett says he thinks the business of transporting goods around the country is ready to rebound. But investors may want to delay hitching a ride on his caboose.
  5 days ago

• Buffett Bets Big on Railroads’ Future

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Warren E. Buffett
  5 days ago

• Cisco and EMC Form Venture to Serve Data Centers

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  The joint venture called Acadia will work to sell bundles of hardware and software to corporate data centers.
  6 days ago

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