Houghton Mifflin to Buy Harcourt Units
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Houghton Mifflin agreed to buy the Harcourt education and trade publishing units from the publisher Reed Elsevier for $4 billion in cash and stock.
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IHOP Corp. , which operates a chain of pancake restaurants, plans to buy Applebee's International Inc.  for $25.50 per share in cash, the companies said on Monday.
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NEW YORK - A group of investors led by Sony Corp has agreed to buy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc for nearly $5 billion, US news reports said Monday.
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Iomega plans to buy ExcelStor Great Wall Technology in China in a stock deal that would nearly quadruple the size of Iomega, with its revenue going from $300 million a year to about $1.1 billion a year, and the number of employees growing from less than 300 to about 3,000.
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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- The Blackstone Group agreed to buy Prime Hospitality Corp., which owns Wellesley Inn and AmeriSuites hotels, for $790 million, including the assumption of debt.
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Newspaper publisher GateHouse Media Inc.  said on Friday that it will buy seven newspapers in Massachusetts from Journal Register Co.  for $70 million.
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LOS ANGELES - Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is to be bought for about US$2.85 billion ($4.4 billion) by a group headed by Sony of America.
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The Riverdeep Group was close to a deal to acquire the textbook publisher Houghton Mifflin for about $3.5 billion, including debt.
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By Eric Benderoff, Chicago Tribune  Jun. 2--At a time when everyone from stay-at-home moms to international media conglomerates call themselves publishers, a small Chicago company sitting in the middle of a distribution revolution was purchased Friday by Web giant Google Inc.
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Anglo-Dutch publisher Reed Elsevier   is close to a deal to sell its U.S. education arm  Harcourt to rival Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep for about $4  billion, people familiar with the situation said on Monday.
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Children's Place Retail Stores Inc.  on Wednesday said it will buy Walt Disney Co.'s  chain of North American retail stores and pledged to invest &#36;100 million in them.
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General Electric Co. , with businesses from lighting to jet engines, agreed to buy 147 properties across the United States from a fund run by the Trammell Crow family's investment firm for $2.2 billion.
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The Washington Post Co. WPO.N said  on Tuesday it would buy Microsoft Corp.'s MSFT.O online  magazine Slate.
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Riverdeep Inc., an Irish educational software publisher, agreed to buy U.S. textbook publisher Houghton Mifflin for about $1.75 billion in cash and the assumption of about $1.61 billion in net debt, the companies said on Wednesday.
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The Sony Corporation today agreed to buy the Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and its valuable film library after rival Time Warner withdrew from the bidding.
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The Japanese electronics giant struck an agreement to buy the fabled movie studio yesterday after rival Time Warner dropped out of the race.
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French technology firm Thomson  on Monday said it would join Microsoft Corp. and Time Warner Inc. in a venture to buy U.S.-based anti-piracy software maker ContentGuard, a move that could defuse objections by European regulators.