Nonghyup to lend $180 mln to KKR for First Data deal
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South Korea&#39;s National Agricultural  Cooperative Federation, better known as Nonghyup, will lend  $180 million to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts&#39; $26 billion purchase  of First Data, a Nonghyup official said on Thursday.
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KKR & Co. LP , the prominent U.S. buyout firm that pioneered the leveraged buyout industry, filed with regulators on Tuesday to raise up to $1.25 billion in an initial public offering.
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Bangladesh's largest mobile phone operator, GrameenPhone, plans to list on the Dhaka stock exchange by June, a statement said Wednesday, after it holds what is expected to be the nation's biggest IPO.
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A Saudi consortium has awarded four international firms 1.5 billion riyals (&#36;400 million) worth of contracts to set up the second GSM network in the kingdom.
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ESPOO, Finland, September 18  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Nokia  has signed a nationwide supply contract with the Philippine telecommunications company Globe Telecom Inc.
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A consortium led by Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group agreed Thursday to pay 1.27 billion British pounds (US$2.5 billion; euro1.8 billion) for NTL Inc.
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A consortium led by Australia&#39;s Macquarie group will pay Â£1.27 billion ($2.5 billion) for the broadcast infrastructure business of Britain&#39;s NTL Group.
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The deal, valued at $35 billion, will create a large wireless service provider to compete with wireless rivals Cingular and Verizon.
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Digital media specialist RealNetworks (Nasdaq: RNWK), sensing an opening in a competitive yet promising market, is offering a new licensing program for mobile phone makers and has reached agreement with top vendor Nokia (NYSE: NOK) to integrate Real throughout the Nokia product line.
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The second-largest cellphone operator in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States said the $4.3 billion deal will create the regionâs first integrated fixed-to-mobile provider.
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Internet and telecoms giant Softbank Corp  (9984.T) will spend about 40 billion yen ($350 million) to  start operations next year at a new data centre in southwestern  Japan, the Nikkei business daily said on Sunday.
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Standard Chartered has agreed to buy US$1.5 billion (HK$11.7 billion) worth of loans from Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) to beef up its project finance operation.
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German industrial conglomerate Siemens AG said Monday it has secured a 180 million euro ($224 million) order to modernize Libya's electricity network.
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The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) has qualified 12 bidders for the government's Next Generation National Broadband Project. The announcement comes follows IDA's December 2006 call for interested companies and consortiums to demonstrate their capabilities for approval to bid on the project.
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KBR , a former unit of Halliburton Co. , Dyncorp International Inc.  and Fluor Corp.  were awarded parts of a U.S. Army contract with a combined potential value of up to $150 billion to provide services to the military in the Middle East.
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The $41 billion deal will create the country's largest mobile phone provider.
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The deal, which was leaked to the press last week, will see the UK-based mobile operator deliver data services -- such as games, ringtones and entertainment -- through a platform that has been credited with making NTT DoCoMo the force that it is in