Reuters buys Moneyline Telerate for up to $175m
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Global news and information provider Reuters Group Plc has agreed to buy loss-making market data firm Moneyline Telerate in a deal worth up to $175million to beef up its presence in fixed income markets.
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France will sell up to 12.1 percent of France Telecom in Europe&#39;s largest share placement in four years, bringing as much as 5.75 billion euros ($6.
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FRANKFURT/LONDON  - Germany sold 6.3 percent in  phone operator Deutsche Telekom on Monday, raising up to 4.4  billion euros ($5.5 billion) as part of a privatization drive  to help it tackle a burgeoning budget deficit.
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The Dutch navigation systems company said it plans to make a cash offer of 21.25 euros per share for digital map supplier Tele Atlas, valuing the company at 2 billion euros ($2.76 billion).
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Deutsche Telekom, the largest European phone company, has offered to buy out investors in T-Online International, its Internet division, for about E3 billion, aiming to revive growth at its fixed-line business.
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Vodafone buys a controlling stake in Indian mobile phone firm Hutchison Essar for $11bn (Â£5.7bn).
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BT Group Plc will buy Infonet Services  Corp. for $965 million in cash, giving the UK's top fixed-line  telecoms company 1,800 multinational corporate clients and an  expanded presence in the United States and Asia.
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Transatlantic exchange NYSE Euronext   said on Thursday it agreed to acquire the American Stock Exchange (Amex) for $260 million in stock to boost its options business, exchange traded funds (ETFs) and cash products.
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Canadian electronic publisher Thomson Corp  won conditional permission from antitrust regulators at the U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday to buy Reuters Group Plc , a deal that will create the world's leading provider of news and data for professional markets.
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Transatlantic exchange NYSE Euronext  said on Thursday it agreed to acquire the American Stock Exchange (Amex) for $260 million in stock to boost its options business, exchange traded funds (ETFs) and cash products.
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(InfoWorld) - Vodafone Group has denied a Monday report by the Financial Times that it was considering buying Verizon Communications in a huge $160 billion deal. The paper, citing unnamed sources, said the international mobile operator was contemplating such a deal but hadn't approached Verizon and wouldn't necessarily go ahead with it. But Verizon's shares were up $1 at $42.76 in afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Vodafone issued a statement to the London Stock Exchange to squelch the report. "Vodafone notes press speculation that it is considering a possible offer for Verizon Communications. Vodafone wishes to make it clear that it has no plans to make such an offer," the statement said. Vodafone owns 45 percent of Verizon Wireless, the rest of which is owned by incumbent wireline carrier Verizon Communications. The dual ownership could tie Verizon's hands as it goes up against rival AT&T, which now owns all of its mobile business and is moving toward "quad-play" bundles of broadband, video, wireline voice, and mobile services. The arrangement gives Vodafone a stake in a profitable U.S. mobile business but doesn't allow it to chart its own course in the market. Vodafone tried to acquire AT&T Wireless in 2004 but was outbid by Cingular. The company has expanded aggressively in other countries, including Germany, where it bought Mannesman in 2000. Buying all of Verizon would create a company valued at about $300 billion. But as part of the deal, Vodafone might spin off Verizon's wireline business in order to build an all-wireless carrier, the Financial Times said. Verizon is the second-largest U.S. carrier behind AT&T in both wired and wireless customers. It had 60.7 million wireless subscribers and 7.4 million broadband customers at the end of the first quarter. Its Fios TV fiber-to-the-home service had attracted about 348,000 households. Verizon also operates a global enterprise communications business. Vodafone, based in Newbury, U.K., had 198.6 million customers across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Â and the Asia-Pacific region at the end of last year.
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Telekom Austria AG said Monday it has agreed to purchase call rights to acquire Mobiltel AD of Bulgaria for about 1.6 billion euros ($2.09 billion).
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Telekom Austria, Austriaâs largest telecoms operator, obtained access to the relatively underdeveloped East European mobile services market by winning the right to purchase the Bulgarian mobile operator MobilTel for â¬1.6billion ($2.12billion).
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Finnish-Swedish telecommunications group TeliaSonera revealed on Wednesday a plan to buy back 1.1 billion euros worth of shares.
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Finland plans to sell as much as 1.37 billion euros ($1.83 billion) worth of shares in TeliaSonera AB, the Nordic region s largest phone company, as part of the country s program of stock sales to reduce debt.
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Telecom Italia SpA has taken time off from a reorganization that has plunged the country's politics into turmoil by paying 675m euros ($870m) cash for Time Warner's AOL Germany internet access business in a deal that will make it Germany's second largest ISP.
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BANGALORE, Oct. 7. - Reuters, the Â£3.2-billion information group, opened its back office here today, its fourth such centre in the world after Tiverton in the UK, New York and Singapore.