Bill Gates buys stake in Mexican brewer Femsa
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Billionaire Bill Gates has taken a stake worth $392 million in Mexican brewer Femsa, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Thursday.
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Mexican state oil monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos has chosen potential private partners for a US$2.7 billion (euro2.15 billion) project to boost its faltering petrochemicals business.
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates was elected Tuesday to serve on the board of directors of prominent investment company Berkshire Hathaway.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- Mexico&#39;s Cemex has agreed to buy Britain&#39;s RMC Group for $4.1 billion in cash. Free! Sign up here to receive our Before the Bell e-Newsletter!
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OSLO/NEW YORK  - Microsoft Corp  made a  $1.2 billion offer to buy Norwegian Web search software company  Fast Search & Transfer  in a deal that would help the  world's largest software maker expand into the market for  business-oriented search.
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The Mexican cement giant reaches a crucial 90% stake in an Australian rival.
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Telecommunication networking firm Applied Innovation Inc has agreed to be bought by KEG Holdings Inc for $52.7m in cash. The deal is worth $3.45 per share.  Hillsoboro, Oregon-based KEG is the parent company of high-speed network access equipment manufacturer Kentrox LLC.
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Blog: A Mexican financial Web site says that, with an estimated net worth of more than $67 billion, tycoon Carlos Slim has overtaken the Microsoft chairman as the world's richest man.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Leading U.S. brewer Anheuser  Busch BUD.N sold its 20 percent stake in Chile's biggest  brewer CCU CCU.SN for $299 million in an auction on the  Santiago Stock Exchange on Friday.
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Blog: A Mexican financial Web site says that, with an estimated net worth of more than $67 billion, tycoon Carlos Slim has overtaken the Microsoft Chairman as the world's richest man.
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Bill Gates joined the board of Warren Buffett&#39;s Berkshire Hathaway investment company yesterday, formalizing the relationship between two bridge buddies who happen to be the richest men in the world.
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Mexican Cemex, being the third largest cement maker in the world, agreed to buy its British competitor - RMC Group - for $5.8 billion, as well as their debts in order to expand their activity on the building materials market of the USA and Europe.
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Microsoft buys a $240m stake in the social networking site Facebook, beating rival Google
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Mexico's Grupo TMM agreed to sell its  51 percent voting stake in Grupo Transportacion Ferroviaria  Mexicana SA de CV, or Grupo TFM, to Kansas City Southern  Industries Inc. for $200 million in cash and 18 million shares  of stock, the companies said on Wednesday.
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Microsoft Corp  said on  Wednesday it would pay $240 million for a 1.6 percent minority  equity stake in Facebook in a deal that values the popular  social networking Web site at $15 billion.
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German chemicals and pharmaceuticals giant Bayer said it had acquired the marketing rights for GlaxoSmithKline's erectile dysfunction treatment Levitra in a number of countries outside the US for 208 million euros (272 million dollars).
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Blog: Bill Gates' investment arm is among those investing $26 million to help prop up the struggling publisher for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender market.