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Belgian telecommunications operator Belgacom said on Thursday it was selling its stake in the Belgian arm of French mobile operator Orange for 147.8 million euros (193.5 million dollars).
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Vivendi Universal on Thursday sold a 15 per cent stake in its former water subsidiary Veolia Environnement, raising about â¬1.5bn for the French group to pay back debt and tighten its focus on media and telecommunications.
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Alltel Corp., the sixth biggest U.S. cellular carrier, has agreed to buy Western Wireless Corp., a Northwest regional carrier which owns the Cellular One brand, for about $4.4 billion in cash and stock.
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Daum Communications Corp. completed the purchase of all shares in Lycos Inc. from Spain s Terra Networks SA, Terra Networks said in a note to the Spanish stock market regulator yesterday.
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Pinault-Printemps-Redoute SA has entered exclusive talks to sell its controlling stake in electrical parts distributor Rexel to a trio of private investment firms for euro1.92 billion (US$2.55 billion), the French retail and luxury group said Tuesday.
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Montgomery-based Colonial BancGroup Incorporated has agreed to buy Union Bank of Florida for about 233 million dollars. In a statement Tuesday, Colonial says Union Bank operates 18 branches and holds 687 million in total deposits.
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Big Blue's deal with mobile provider Orange prompts it to join the Internet security consortium and take a seat on its board.
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BRUSSELS  - European Union regulators on Friday cleared the acquisition by Singapore's Flextronics International Ltd. of manufacturing actives from Nortel Networks Corp., Canada's largest technology company.
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Siemens bought a 16 percent stake from a private investor in November and launched a bid of 55 euros ($72.05) a share for the remaining shares.
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Belgian drugmaker UCB UCBBt.BR has   agreed to buy Germany's Schwarz Pharma SRZG.DE for around 4.4   billion euros ($5.6 billion) in stock and cash, in the third   major drug sector transaction in Germany in five days.
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IT services vendor LogicaCMG Plc's involvement in the mobile communications software space is over following the sale of its telecoms products division to a private equity group for 265m pounds ($348m) in cash.
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UCB, a Belgian drug maker, said it had agreed to buy Schwarz Pharma of Germany for 4.4 billion euros ($5.6 billion) to gain experimental medicines for ParkinsonÂs disease, epilepsy and bladder control. Schwarz investors will get 91.10 euros a share in cash and stock, 20 percent more than the closing price on Friday, UCB said. The Schwarz-Schuette family, which owns 60 percent of the company, backed the offer. Schwarz, based in Monheim, Germany, is the third European family-owned drug maker to sell in less than a week as the cost of developing new products rises. UCB, which faces patent expirations on its top sellers starting next year, will get three drugs that may provide more than 2 billion euros in annual revenue.
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French video games group Ubisoft   said it had sold its 18.89 percent stake in Gameloft  , Europe's biggest provider of games for cell phones,  to French bank Calyon  for 81.3 million euros ($112.2  million).
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State-owned development bank KfW is selling up to 4 billion euros ($4.9 billion) worth of shares in Deutsche Telekom, the latest step in the privatization of the former German phone monopoly.
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A consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland  unveiled a bid for ABN AMRO  on Tueday valued at 38.40 euros per share, worth a total 71.1 billion euros ($95.6 billion).
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PepsiCo. Inc., the world&#39;s No. 2 soft- drink maker, plans to buy General Mills Inc.&#39;s stake in their European joint venture for $750 million in cash, giving it complete ownership of Europe&#39;s largest snack-food company.
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FRANKFURT/LONDON Oct 11  - Germany sold a 6.3  percent stake in phone operator Deutsche Telekom on Monday,  raising up to 4.5 billion euros ($5.6 billion) to help it curb  a burgeoning budget deficit.