AXA retracts offer for Asian affiliate
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SYDNEY Shares of AXA Asia Pacific Holdings slumped Monday after the European insurer AXA withdrew a 3.4 billion Australian dollar, or $2.
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France Telecom's  Orange  unit has pulled out of the bidding for the UK Internet  connection business of Time Warner Inc.'s  AOL, an  industry source close to the matter said on Thursday.
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Ambac Financial, which insures against sub-prime losses,  abandons share sale
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Ponders withdrawing support for non-stickered product
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ABN Amroâs board said Sunday that it would not recommend either of the two takeover offers it had received.
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Sanofi-Aventis has withdrawn its  marketing application for its Multaq heart arrhythmia treatment  in the European Union, the world's third-largest drugmaker said  on Thursday.
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A new, optional log-on service from America Online that makes it harder for scammers to access a persons online account will not be available for Macintosh
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MELBOURNE (Dow Jones)--France&#39;s AXA SA (AXA) faces a six-week delay in its attempt to move to full ownership of its Australian insurance subsidiary, with the Australian
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MELBOURNE (Dow Jones)--Australian insurer AXA Asia Pacific Holdings Ltd. (AXA.AU) rebuffed Monday a buyout proposal from major shareholder AXA SA (AXA) after it wouldn&#39;t agree to the A$3.
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eBay Inc. EBAY.O offered about $530  million to buy the remainder of South Korean affiliate Internet  Auction Co. Ltd. as it pushes deeper into Asia, saying key  shareholders had accepted a 79 percent increase to an earlier  offer.
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Lycos Europe has axed the distribution of a controversial screensaver designed to target websites that profit from spam, claiming that the company has made its point.
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ARM gets slapped for making a pricey buy.
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eBay is reportedly pulling out of the Chinese market, instead opting to replace it with a new site that would be run by Bejing-based Tom Online, the Wall Street Journal reports. So far, the auction site has refused to confirm the speculation.
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AXA Asia Pacific Holdings yesterday delivered a $3.4 billion &quot;non&quot; to its French parent&#39;s bid to take over the remaining 48 per cent share, sending the share price into a nosedive and provoking
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By Kyodo News International, Tokyo  Dec. 14--SYDNEY -- Australia's Qantas Airways said Thursday it has  accepted a revised A$11.1 billion (about US$8.7 billion) buyout offer by a  consortium led by a local investment bank, a local newspaper reported.
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Asian shares fell on Tuesday as a soft dollar and concerns about weak holiday spending in the key U.S. market prompted investors to unload shares in exporters such as Samsung Electronics  and Honda
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Satellite operator Intelsat is pulling out of its Hong Kong pay-TV joint venture with Television Broadcasts Ltd. (0511.HK: Quote, Profile, Research) , saying growth in Galaxy Satellite TV Holdings Ltd.