Riverdeep close to Houghton Mifflin deal: sources
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Riverdeep Inc., an Irish educational  software publisher, is close to a deal to buy U.S. textbook  publisher Houghton Mifflin for about $3.5 billion including  debt, two sources familiar with the situation told Reuters on  Wednesday.
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Yahoo Inc  would consider  a business alliance with Google Inc  as one way to  rebuff a $44.6 billion takeover proposal by Microsoft, a source  familiar with Yahoo's strategy said on Sunday.
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An interim production deal between  striking Hollywood writers and the Lionsgate film and  television studio is imminent, said to source close to the  talks on Thursday.
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Yahoo Inc would consider a business alliance with Google Inc as one way to rebuff a $44.6 billion takeover proposal by Microsoft, a source familiar with Yahoo's strategy said on Sunday.
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Dutch office goods supplier Corporate  Express  is in early-stage talks to be bought by U.S.  rival Staples , a Dutch newspaper said on Tuesday,  citing an unnamed source within Staples.
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Clothing retailer American Apparel  Inc. is close to a deal to be bought by Endeavor Acquisition  Corp.  for $244 million, the Wall Street Journal  reported on its Web site on Monday.
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British estate agency firm Countrywide Plc  is in talks to be acquired by U.S. buyout group Apollo Management, a source familiar with the situation said on Sunday.
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SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK  - Yahoo Inc would consider a business alliance with Google Inc as one way to rebuff a $44.6 billion takeover proposal by Microsoft, a source familiar with Yahoo's strategy said on Sunday.
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Deal moves closer to completion, but is still subject to shareholder approval.
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Anglo-Dutch publisher Reed Elsevier   is close to a deal to sell its U.S. education arm  Harcourt to rival Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep for about $4  billion, people familiar with the situation said on Monday.
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British estate agency firm Countrywide  is in talks to be acquired by U.S. buyout group Apollo Management, a source familiar with the situation said on Sunday.
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Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News Corp. and Dow  Jones & Co. Inc. have &quot;basically agreed&quot; on safeguards to the  editorial independence of Dow Jones&#39; news operations, a source  familiar with the matter said on Tuesday, setting the stage for  Dow Jones to accept a $5 billion buyout offer.
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Newspaper publisher Pulitzer Inc.  PTZ.N is considering a sale of the company that could attract  bids of up to $1.5 billion, sources familiar with the matter  said on Friday.
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The New York Times reports this morning that a deal is imminent between Liberty Media chairman John Malone and News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch, in which Malone will acquire one of Murdoch's prize assets - satellite service provider DirecTV - in exchange for Malone's 19% voting stake, plus 15% non-voting stake, in News Corp.
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News Corp.  is willing to go further than it has before in acceding to tighter safeguards of editorial independence as a condition of buying Dow Jones & Co. Inc. , The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing sources close to News Corp.
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The Riverdeep Group was close to a deal to acquire the textbook publisher Houghton Mifflin for about $3.5 billion, including debt.
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Procter & Gamble Co. is near a deal to  buy Gillette Co. for more than $54 billion in stock, creating a  dominant consumer products manufacturer with unprecedented sway  over retailers, sources familiar with the situation said on  Thursday.