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• Surf industry giant buys O.C. online retailer

  
  Jan Norman on Small Business — Authority: 522
  Billabong USA in Irvine has acquired Swell.com , a San Clemente online retailer, according to Gold Coast , in order to boost its online sales. Billabong USA is a division of the Australian creator of clothing for the surf, skateboard and snowboard markets. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, although ...
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• War for grounds: Coffee firms Peets and Green Mountain sweeten Diedrich bids

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 805
  Filed under: Company News Theres a bidding war brewing over Diedrich Coffee ( DDRX ), the maker of single-serving cups of joe for home or office percolation. Diedrich agreed on Nov. 2 to sell itself to Peets Coffee and Tea ( PEET ), the java chain that is said to have inspired Starbucks ( SBUX ). But now Peets ...
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• Reliance aims big with $12 bln bid for LyondellBasell

  
  India: A billion aspirations — Authority: 415
  Ranked by Forbes as Indias richest man with a net worth of $32 billion, Mukesh Ambani is no stranger to taking risks. The move by conglomerate Reliance Industries , controlled by Ambani, to bid for bankrupt LyondellBasell is a calculated one. Markets seem to think this is a bargain and investors pushed ...
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• Reliance aims big with $12 bln bid for LyondellBasell

  
  DealZone — Authority: 526
  Ranked by Forbes as India’s richest man with a net worth of $32 billion, Mukesh Ambani is no stranger to taking risks. The move by conglomerate Reliance Industries , controlled by Ambani, to bid for bankrupt LyondellBasell  is a calculated one. Markets seem to think this is a bargain and investors pushed ...
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• KPN, IBasis Make Peace at $3

  
  Telecom Ramblings — Authority: 135
  After a dispute that lasted four months, iBasis (IBAS: chart , news ) has come to terms with its majority shareholder KPN (KPN: chart , news ).  KPN will pay $3 per share to buy the rest of the company, totalling $93.3M.  The special committee of IBasis’s board has unanimously approved the new bid, and thus ...
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• Ciena Begins New Era, Outbids Nokia for Nortel Assets

  
  Telecom Ramblings — Authority: 135
  According to various reports over the weekend, Ciena (CIEN: chart , news ) has won the auction for Nortel’s optical networking and carrier ethernet businesses.  The company apparently raised its earlier stalking horse offer all the way to $769M, made up of $530M in cash and $239M in convertible notes, just ...
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• Hershey considers audacious $17bn go-it-alone bid for Cadbury

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  The US chocolate company Hershey is considering an audacious go-it-alone attempt to buy the besieged Cadbury confectionery empire through a takeover offer of at least $17bn (£10.2bn) to edge out Krafts £9.8bn hostile bid. Sources close to the situation last night said that Hershey has lined up deal financing from ...
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• The Mix: Hispanic/Latino Population of the USA

  
  Erik's Choice — Authority: 129
  The Hispanic/Latino population in the United States is booming almost everywhere, but particularly in the areas that were sheared off from Mexico after the Texas Revolution and Mexican-American War in the 19 th century. At the time, White Anglo-Saxon Protestant ("WASP") ideology called this "Manifest Destiny." Using ...
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• Warning for Cadbury from the home of Hersheys

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  • US confectioner has moved thousands of jobs to Mexico in three-year restructuring • Companys intentions towards Cadbury, a potential bid target, remain unclear It calls itself the sweetest place in America. But the home town of Hersheys, the chocolate maker, has a lingering hint of bitterness in the air after ...
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• DealZone Daily

  
  DealZone — Authority: 526
  For the latest deals news from Reuters, click here . And here’s the top stories from the newspapers (some external links may require subscription): Italian chocolate maker Ferrero could be interested in Cadbury ’s gum and candy division, a unit worth about 5 billion euros ($7.4 billion), in a possible joint ...
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• Metcalfe Reflects on $2.7B 3Com Buyout, $30M More for Fate Therapeutics, & More Boston Deals News

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 703
  deals , VC , mergers and acquisitions Ryan McBride wrote: Dealmakers appear to be getting their business done before the week of Thanksgiving—because we’ve seen a decent stream of deal closings involving Boston-area life sciences and tech companies over the past week or so. —Framingham, MA-based ...
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• Kipper Williams: JP Morgan Blue Blood

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Blue-blooded City broker Cazenove bought by US bank in £1bn deal
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• eBays $2.025 Billion Sale Of Skype Complete [Skype]

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 798
  eBay has successfully unloaded Skype. They remain a minority stakeholder, but 70% of the company has been sold to a company that includes the original co-founders of the internet telephony company. Lets hope that theyll left behind that famous eBay customer service , as well. (Photo: Ryan Fanshaw )
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• Capitalism by chocolate | Steve Almond

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Relax, chocolate lovers of Britian - your Cadburys Dairy Milk and Creme Eggs will be safe in our grasping American hands As a licensed Candyfreak , the author of an exceedingly silly book about the history of American sweets, I am often assailed by Brits who would like me to answer one nagging question : How can I ...
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• Nils Pratley | Whats in a name? If its Cazenove, £1bn

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  The owners of the City stalwart have, as youd expect, got the timing of the sale to JP Morgan just right It makes sense for JP Morgan and Cazenove to do their deal now. The initial five-year partnership period was about to expire and neither side wanted to live with distracting annual rollovers. But, wow, what a ...
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• The Mix: First Nation Population

  
  Erik's Choice — Authority: 129
  I. [E] verywhere the declaration is made that we [i.e. the USA body politic] are an ambitious, unjust, hard people, more given to war than any people of modern times. Whether this be true or not, it is not for me to inquire. I am speaking now merely of the reputation which we heard abroad -- everywhere, I believe; ...
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• M&A is key for Japanese equities in 2010 - Goldman Sachs

  
  Investing in Japan — Authority: 400
  Reuters (article in Japanese) reports that Goldman Sachs issued a report earlier this week that argues M&A will be the major theme for Japanese equities in 2010. Having a ‘macro’ investment theme for the start of each new year is a ritual for brokerages in Japan, although it seems no one ever has the resolve ...
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• Notable Mergers and Acquisitions of the Day: BX, AGU/CF, PRIM, C...

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 166
  Blackstone Groups (NYSE: BX) Pinnacle Brands Corp. is expected to acquire Birds Eye Foods for $1.3 billion the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Birds Eye Foods is the nations largest frozen-vegetable company and is majority owned by the private-equity firm Vestar Capital Partners. ...
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• Blue-blooded Cazenove join blue-chip JP Morgan

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Historic, traditional Cazenove has gradually modernised over the years. But today is a new era A quiet yard behind the Bank of England used to house one of the most highly respected firms in the City. And guests who managed to find its antiquated offices were greeted by name by gentlemen dressed as retainers. That ...
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• DealZone Daily

  
  DealZone — Authority: 526
  Reckitt Benckiser shares rise 2 percent — so markets are taking notice of the Daily Telegraph’s “latest tale” that the UK group could link up with Colgate-Palmolive . Benckiser is worth roughly $37 billion in the market, Colgate some $41.2 billion, so a deal would be humongous. And this just in: J.P. ...
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