QRS ditches JDA merger
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QRS, a provider of commerce technology to retail companies, has terminated a merger pact with JDA Software Group to accept a more lucrative $116 million offer from Inovis International.
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Johnson & Johnson's $25.4 billion takeover of Guidant Corp. and the $35 billion union of Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications Inc. are leading the busiest quarter for mergers in more than four years. -The Washington Post
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Japan's Supreme Court ruled on Monday  that troubled bank UFJ Holdings Inc. can pull out of a deal to  sell its trust business to a smaller rival, clearing the way  for a full takeover of UFJ by larger Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial  Group (MTFG).
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Cable &amp; Wireless yesterday sold its Japanese business to Softbank Corp for Â£72.4m. The move is the last big part of the company&#39;s retrenchment and leaves it focused on Britain and a handful of former British colonies.
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Australian banking group ANZ has watered down its plan to combine the National Bank with the New Zealand arm of ANZ. The ANZ, which bought the National Bank from Britain&#39;s Lloyds TSB for
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Capital Radio and GWR saw Â£45m wiped off their combined stock market values yesterday as investors digested details of their proposed merger alongside trading updates published simultaneously by both companies.
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Johnson & Johnson's $25.4 billion takeover of Guidant Corp. and the $35 billion union of Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications Inc. are leading the busiest quarter for mergers in more than four years.  -The Washington Post
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An appeals court yesterday removed the final obstacle standing in the way of a merger between Whole Foods and Wild Oats, setting the stage for the nation's two largest sellers of organic and natural foods to combine operations.
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Sprint Nextel has decided to consolidate its two headquarters, eliminating a relic of the merger of Sprint and Nextel Communications in 2005.
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Johnson & Johnson will acquire the cardiac device manufacturer for $25.4 billion. The acquisition is the largest business deal in J&J's 118-year history
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JP Morgan Chase &amp; Co. on Tuesday shuffled top management at the firm which led to chief financial officer Dina Dublon resigning from the Wall Street giant and investment banking chairman David Coulter being reassigned to control West Coast operations.
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A breakup between XM and Starbucks, and two good buys.
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JP Morgan Chase is cancelling a $5bn IT outsourcing deal with IBM and bringing the service back in-house. IBM will hand over the running of the investment bank&#39;s data centres, help desks, distributed computing, data and voice networks from January 2005.
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Don't mind the mergers. Watch the valuation.
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Cazenove&#39;s investment banking unit, which advises nearly half of Britain&#39;s leading companies, is to be merged with the rival operation run by JP Morgan, ending 181 years of independence.
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British bank Standard Chartered Plc (Stanchart) dismissed the idea of merging its Indonesian operation with Bank Permata&#39;s, saying it would keep the two separate.
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No more tentative agreements--in what the two companies deem a &quot;merger of equals,&quot; Sprint and Nextel officially announced a definitive agreement to merge.