Goldman to sell S.Korea cable operator stake: paper
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Goldman Sachs  is selling its 30.48  percent stake in South Korean cable TV operator C&M, valued at  $970 million, the Maeil Business Newspaper said on Monday,  citing unnamed investment banking and industry sources.
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China Network Systems, Taiwan's largest  cable TV operator, has decided to sell itself to MBK Partners,  in a deal expected to fetch up to $1.6 billion, according to  media reports on Monday.
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HSBC Holdings, Europeâs biggest bank, agreed to buy a 51 percent stake in Korea Exchange Bank for $6.3 billion as it attempts to bolster its presence in the fast-growing Asian market. The purchase of the stake from the United States private equity group Lone Star Funds would allow Lone Star, based in Dallas, to exit a controversial investment. HSBC, based in London, said that it did not intend to make an offer for the remainder of the Korean bankâs shares and that the bank would remain listed on the Korea Exchange. The acquisition would catapult HSBC past its foreign rivals Standard Chartered and Citigroup. Both have bested HSBC in the past in purchasing local banks during the post-Asian crisis turmoil. A local court in South Korea has been investigating allegations that Lone Star manipulated the stock price of the Korean bankâs credit card unit in 2003 so that the bank could take it over at a lower price.
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NEW YORK  - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Ltd. will sell its stake in Sky Latin America to DirecTVGroup , another company which it controls, for $579million in order to consolidate operations of the two satellitebroadcasters, the companies said on Monday.
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British telecommunications company Cable &amp; Wireless PLC is selling its Japanese business to Tokyo-based broadband services provider Softbank Corp. for 12.3 billion yen (&#36;115 million).
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Liberty Media Corp. (LN: Quote, Profile, Research) on Monday said it is doubling its voting stake in News Corp. ahead of time in a share-swapping transaction with Merrill Lynch expected to be completed in mid-January.
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Liberty Media Corp. is set to announce  it has bought a controlling stake in Bodybuilding.com, a  Website operator and retailer targeting exercise buffs, for  more than $100 million, The Wall Street Journal reported on  Monday.
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Sanyo Electric Co. said Monday it will sell its troubled mobile phone operations to Kyocera Corp.
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Time Warner Inc.'s  cable division said on Tuesday it has become a public company and expects its shares to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange and start trading as early as March 1.
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. , moving to regain full control of its majority-owned Fox television properties, is offering to buy the remaining publicly held shares of Fox Entertainment Group Inc. in a nearly $5.9 billion stock deal.
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Internet auctioneer eBay Inc. said on Tuesday it has agreed to buy $325 million worth of shares of South Korean online trading peer, Internet Auction Co.
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The New York Times Co. , owner of The Boston Globe, said it will buy a 49 percent stake in Metro Boston, the free newspaper distributed to commuters.
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Hon Hai , Taiwan's top electronics parts maker, is likely to buy part of the stake Philips  wants to sell in South Korea's LG.Philips LCD , local newspapers reported on Saturday.
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp (NWSa.N)  will sell eight U.S. television stations to private equity firm  Oak Hill Partners for about $1.1 billion.
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By Bloomberg, AP and Staff Reports  Liberty Media Corp. says swapping its stake in Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. for an operating asset like DirecTV would be "attractive" and bolster Liberty's ability to distribute media content such as TV shows and movies.
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Private equity house Lone Star sold a larger-than-expected 13.6 percent stake in lender Korea Exchange Bank, raising $1.28 billion, a source said, as the U.S. firm begins to exit an investment burdened by legal challenges.
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Network operator Cable and Wireless PLC (C&W) has agreed to sell its Japanese business, Cable & Wireless IDC Inc., to Softbank Corp. for Â£72.4 million (US$133.3 million), the London-based company announced Tuesday.