South Africa's Naspers to buy UK's Tradus for $1.9 bln
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Africa's largest media firm Naspers Ltd  will buy British-based Internet auction company Tradus (QXL Ricardo Plc)  for 946 million pounds ($1.90 billion), the company said on Tuesday.
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DUTCH media group VNU is selling off its yellow pages directory business, World Directories, to World Directories Acquisition for Â£1.
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NEW YORK  SanDisk Corp. , a maker of flash  memory used in cell phones and digital cameras, said on Sunday  it would buy Israel-based Msystems  for $1.55 billion  in stock.
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Cendant Corp., which owns Days Inn hotels and Avis Rent A Car Systems Inc., agreed to buy the UK&#39;s Gullivers Travel Associates and Octopus Travel Group Ltd.
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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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Royal Dutch/Shell Group announced Wednesday that it would spend US$1.8 billion on exploration and production in the North Sea, including building a pipeline to transfer gas from Norway to Britain.
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General Electric Co. (GE.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Wednesday said it would buy Ionics Inc. (ION.N: Quote, Profile, Research) for about $1.1 billion to build out its water treatment and services business.
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VNU, the Dutch market research and information group, yesterday sold its directories business for â¬2.1bn (Â£1.4bn) to venture capital groups Apax Partners and Cinven.
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Cendant, the world&#39;s largest travel group, yesterday continued its buying spree with the $1.1bn (Â£570m) purchase of Gullivers Travel Associates and Octopus.
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Cendant Corp. said Thursday it has agreed to acquire Gullivers Travel Associates and Octopus Travel Group Ltd. of Britain for about &#36;1.1 billion in cash.
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Top Chinese car maker SAIC Motor Corp  will sign an agreement to buy the manufacturing assets of  smaller rival Nanjing Automobile Group on Wednesday, the  Shanghai Securities News said, in a deal worth up to $1.9  billion.
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Private equity firm Blackstone said on Monday it was buying Madame Tussauds waxworks owner Tussauds group for 1 billion pounds ($1.92 billion).
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Cendant, the worldâs largest travel group, continued its buying spree, saying on Thursday it had agreed to buy privately held Gullivers Travel Associates, the UK-based travel company, and Octopus Travel for about $1.1bn cash.
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Private equity firm Blackstone said on  Monday it was buying Madame Tussauds waxworks owner Tussauds  group for 1 billion pounds ($1.92 billion).
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Temasek Holdings , the Singapore government-owned investment agency, has approached Nasdaq  to buy its 30 percent stake, worth 800 million pounds ($1.6 billion), in the London Stock Exchange , a newspaper reported on Sunday.
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LONDONâWPP Group PLC, the London-based advertising giant, said yesterday it was buying US-based Grey Global Group Inc. in a $1.52 billion (US) cash and stock deal.
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The London Stock Exchange   is to buy its Italian counterpart for 1.6 billion euros ($2.15  billion), a statement from the two confirmed on Saturday, the  latest step in a global consolidation of exchanges.