Carlyle lines up $8bln bid for Virgin Media: report
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Private equity group Carlyle is poised  to launch an $8 billion bid for Britain&#39;s Virgin Media  , the cable company whose largest shareholder is  Richard Branson, the Sunday Telegraph newspaper said, citing  City sources.
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The potential bid for Sir Richard Bransonâs Virgin Media could be worth more than $20 billion.
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The Carlyle Group is in discussions with Virgin Media, the British cable company whose largest investor is Richard Branson, over a potential bid worth around $20 billion, a person familiar with the negotiations said yesterday.
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Oracle yesterday raised its hostile takeover offer for rival software company PeopleSoft by 14%, to $8.8bn (Â£4.37bn), and for the first time set a deadline for acceptance of the bid.
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Cable network on the block again Virgin Media, bowed by its protracted legal tussle with Sky, has again become the target of a takeover approach by private equity carpetbaggers.â¦
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Media & professional: Rupert Murdoch has succeeded with his Â£2.5bn bid for Dow Jones, the Business magazine reports on its website.
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Wireless telecommunications company Vodafone Group Plc  has been considering a $160 billion takeover bid of Verizon Communications , the Financial Times reported on Monday on its Alphaville site.
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U.S. private equity firm Carlyle Group   is expected to buy Libya's European oil company  Tamoil, Britain's The Business newspaper reported on Sunday,  citing a source close to the deal.
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Financial Times publisher Pearson Plc  is seeking partners to make a possible bid for Wall Street Journal owner Dow Jones & Co. Inc. , the Journal reported on its Web site on Friday.
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British cable operator Virgin Media  has appointed Goldman Sachs to seek a possible buyer after it received approaches from various private equity firms, people familiar with the situation said on Sunday.
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SYDNEY, Australia -- Qantas Airways said Thursday it had accepted an $8.64 billion takeover offer from a private equity consortium including Australia's Macquarie Bank and the Texas Pacific Group _ one of the biggest corporate buyouts in Australian history.
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NEW YORK/TAIPEI  - A private equity consortium led by The Carlyle Group plans a $5.5 billion bid for the world's top chip packaging firm, Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. (ASE), Taiwan-based ASE said on Friday.
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NOVAR, the UK conglomerate, is recommending that its shareholders accept an Â£800 million cash bid from Honeywell International, the aerospace to transport multinational.
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Shares in Reuters Group Plc, the world&#39;s largest publicly traded provider of financial information, rose as much as 8.4 percent after the company said the number of contracts signed
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NEW YORK/TAIPEI  - A private equity consortium led by The Carlyle Group  is planning to make a $5.5 billion bid for the world's biggest microchip packaging firm, Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. (ASE)  , the companies said on Friday.
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Media & professional: Private equity group has made preliminary offer for Virgin Media, according to reports.
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Hanjin Shipping Co. has been approached by US private equity fund Carlyle Group LP to acquire some of the South Korean company&#39;s transport and logistics assets, Hanjin officials said.