ISoft Takeover Hope As Losses Mount to Â£356m
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By James Rossiter, Evening Standard, London  Dec. 11--Troubled NHS software supplier iSoft is ploughing on with  takeover talks as it struggles with Â£74 million of debt and only 11 months to  refinance it or risk going under.
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Software firm iSoft, which is being investigated over its accounts, reports widening losses and falling sales.
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ACQUISITION fever gripped markets on both sides of the Atlantic yesterday including a Â£1.3-billion-pound takeover approach for the mid-cap London Stock Exchange from its rival Deutsche BÃ¶erse.
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Software firm iSoft, which is being probed for alleged accounting irregularities, is reportedly a bid target.
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LONDON/NEW YORK  - Nasdaq  launched a 2.7-billion-pound ($5.3-billion) hostile bid for the London Stock Exchange  on Tuesday, needing just over a fifth of LSE shareholders to accept for it to take control.
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Deutsche Boerse AG, Europe&#39;s largest stock exchange by market value, made a 1.35 billion-pound ($2.6 billion) takeover offer for London Stock Exchange Plc, its second attempt in five years to buy the UK company.
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Business & money: Overspend on Â£17bn programme to upgrade network could be more than double previous estimate.
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Marks &amp; Spencer experienced poor summer trading and is expected to announce terms for its Â£2.3bn tender offer substantially below the 400p per share that billionaire Philip Green was prepared to pay to take over the ailing retailer two months ago.
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By Daily Mail, London  Feb. 17--Struggling NHS software supplier iSoft (up 4 3/4p at 49 3/4p)  could be bought by one of its biggest rivals.
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Â· Rose also promised Â£4.5m in shares if targets are met  Â· Shopworkers in line for payouts of Â£500 each
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A LOSS of Â£2.7 million at the half-year stage was today described by management at clothing group Austin Reed as &quot;unacceptable&quot;.
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MARKS &amp; Spencer set the price of its share buyback at 362 pence per share today, in an operation that will see Â£2.3 billion returned to shareholders.
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Nhs software firm iSoft has said it has initiated legal proceedings over the refusal of a key partner to endorse a pounds 132.3m takeover.
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Shares in Australian Leisure &amp; Hospitality Group yesterday raced ahead of the latest takeover offer, gaining 23 Â¢ to $3.14 as investors speculated Coles Myer was building a strategic stake in the pub and poker machine operator.
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The London Stock Exchange today said it had rejected a Â£1.35 billion takeover approach from German rival Deutsche Boerse. Shares in the LSE have risen 25 per cent in recent weeks as investors anticipated a possible takeover bid.
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Shares in UK buy-to-let mortgage lender Paragon sink 35% after it unveils plans to raise Â£287m.
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The world&#39;s airline industry is set to rack up losses of almost $5bn (Â£2.6bn, 3.6bn euros) this year, global airline body AITA has forecast.