TAP-Air Portugal in talks to buy stake in rival Portugalia
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TAP-Portugal is in talks to buy a stake in rival airline Portugalia from financial services group Grupo Espirito Santo, the Portuguese flag carrier said,
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VIENNA: Telekom Austria, seeking faster growth in eastern Europe than it can find at home, is in exclusive talks to buy Bulgariaâs largest mobile phone operator for about e1.6bn ($2.1bn), it said on Monday.
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Five companies were picked by the government as finalists in the bidding for its stake in Alitalia, the ailing state-controlled carrier. The bidders include the Texas Pacific Group, the private equity firm; UniCredit, the bank; as well as financier Carlo De Benedettiâs Management and Capitali, MatlinPatterson Global Advisers; and Carlo Toto, owner of Italyâs No. 2 carrier, Air One, the finance ministry said. They have until mid-April to submit preliminary offers. Italy decided in December to sell its stake in the countryâs largest airline after the government abandoned turnaround efforts. Alitalia last reported a profit in 2002 and has forecast a loss in 2006.
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Air France KLM , under pressure  from Rome to commit to a merger with Alitalia, announced  exploratory talks with the ailing carrier on Thursday but  reaffirmed conditions for a deal.
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Brazilian steel firm CSN wants to make a rival bid for Corus before the Anglo-Dutch group's shareholders meet on December 4 to consider an offer from India's Tata Steel.
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WPP and a US buyout firm will submit offers for US ad agency Grey Global today, while France&#39;s Havas faces opposition to its bid from one of
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French-Dutch airline Air France KLM   is planning to team up with two Spanish firms to bid  for Spain&#39;s Iberia  against a group led by private  equity group TPG, Expansion newspaper said on Wednesday.
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Lufthansa is in talks to buy a stake of just under 25 percent in JetBlue Airways , The New York Times reported on its blog DealBook on Thursday.
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The German telecommunications operator Deutsche Telekom wants to gain control of Poland's leading mobile phone operator PTC through an option to buy shares held by the Polish electricity and telecoms group Elektrim, it said.
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Air France-KLM said Monday it had offered to take over Alitalia via a share swap, planning a major upgrade of the loss-making Italian flag carrier.
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German flag carrier Lufthansa is interested in buying a 20-percent stake in British airline BMI currently held by Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS).
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Telecommunications companies Swisscom AG and Telekom Austria AG are in talks over a possible merger, Swisscom said.
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Brazilian mining giant Vale said  Monday it was in talks with Anglo-Swiss rival Xstrata about a  takeover, a deal that analysts said could top $100 billion in  one of the biggest mergers ever.
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Telecom Italia SpA, Italy&#39;s largest phone company, plans to buy the 44 percent of wireless unit Telecom Italia Mobile SpA it doesn&#39;t already own, a stake with a market value of about
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Eleven private investors, including a rival carrier, a private equity fund in the United States and an Italian industrialist are interested in buying the struggling Italian airline Alitalia, the economy ministry said. AP Holding, led by the chairman of Air One, Carlo Toto; the Texas Pacific Group; and the private equity fund Management and Capitali, which is operated by Carlo De Benedetti, are among those having expressed interest in Alitalia, the ministry said. The Italian government holds 49.9 percent of the airline and is seeking to sell at least 30.1 percent. The ministry said that others interested in Alitalia included a private equity fund, MatlinPatterson Global Advisers; an Italian banking group, UniCredit; and an Italian investor, Paolo Alazraki.
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Air France KLM said it was looking at the possibility of a tie-up with Spanish airline Iberia, which is already a takeover target.
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Lufthansa is in talks to buy a stake of just under 25 percent in JetBlue Airways, the discount airline, people briefed on the matter told DealBook .