Houghton Mifflin accepts &#36;1.8B buyout
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Houghton Mifflin Co. on Wednesday agreed to a nearly $1.8 billion buyout that will pair a venerable name in educational textbook publishing with Riverdeep Inc., a smaller firm whose complementary strength is in educational software.
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Textbook publisher Houghton Mifflin will be acquired by Riverdeep, an Irish educational software publisher, for $1.75 billion, the companies said on Wednesday.
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G.E. said it agreed to sell its advanced materials business for about $3.8 billion and use the income to expand its industrial division.
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Textbook publisher Houghton Mifflin  will be acquired by Riverdeep, an Irish educational software  publisher, for $1.75 billion, the companies said on Wednesday.
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Merrill Lynch &amp; Co., in its biggest acquisition in almost 10 years, agreed to buy First Republic Bank for $1.8 billion to gain clients with an average net worth of $20 million.
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Casino operator Penn National Gaming Inc.  has agreed to be acquired in a deal worth $8.9 billion, including $2.8 billion in assumed debt, the company said on Friday.
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Eastman Kodak Co. says it&#39;s agreed to buy the Imaging business of National Semiconductor Corp., which develops and manufactures complimentary metal oxide semiconductor image sensor devices.
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On Sunday, Equity Office accepted a $36 billion offer from the Blackstone Group. It would be the costliest buyout in history.
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Irish investment company HM Rivergroup said that it has agreed to buy two US publishers, Houghton Mifflin and Riverdeep for a combined 4.6 billion dollars (3.5 billion euros).
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Oracle Corp.  on Monday said rival business software maker PeopleSoft Inc.'s  board has accepted a sweetened purchase offer of about &#36;10.3 billion, ending a long and bitter hostile takeover battle.
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China's largest personal computer maker, Lenovo Group Ltd. (0992.HK), said on Wednesday it is buying control of IBM's PC-making business for &#36;1.25 billion, capping the U.S. tech giant's gradual withdrawal from the business it helped pioneer in 1981.
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Britain's biggest bus company, FirstGroup Plc , said on Friday it had agreed to buy Laidlaw International Inc. , the U.S. company that runs Greyhound buses, for $2.8 billion plus debt.
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The deal, announced Thursday, brings to an end a 16-year run for Reader's Digest as a publicly traded company. It was not yet clear whether the deal would result in management changes
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BlackRock Inc., the largest publicly traded US mutual-fund company, agreed to buy the investment unit of Quellos Group LLC for as much as $1.7 billion, more than doubling its hedge-fund assets.
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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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Martha Stewart, the jailed founder of media company Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc., sold about &#36;8 million worth of shares this week, according to a regulatory filing.
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International Paper Co.  said Friday it completed the sale of 1.1 million acres of forest lands in Maine and New Hampshire for about &#36;250 million to a forest investment management company.