Dimon to acquire rival Standard Commercial
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DANVILLE, Va. -- Dimon Inc., the world&#39;s second largest dealer of leaf tobacco, said Monday it had agreed to acquire rival Standard Commercial Corp.
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Fairfax County is looking for a partner to develop 1 million square feet of retail and commercial office space on nine acres next to a planned Metro station in Reston.
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Alphion Corporation, a privately held company, that develops,  manufactures and markets communication systems, sub-systems, and  integrated photonic components based on its proprietary QLightÂ®  technology, announced today, the launch of it's  GPON product family.
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Britain's Imperial Tobacco  agreed to buy Franco-Spanish rival Altadis  for 12.6 billion euros ($17.4 billion) on Wednesday in a deal that will see it jump to No 2 from 4 in Europe's cigarette industry.
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The tire maker plans to brand a GPS device.
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The Carlyle Group, a Washington-based private equity firm, said today that it has agreed to acquire Annapolis-based ARINC Incorporated, a provider of communicaitons for transportation systems.
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British advertising firm WPP has agreed  to buy smaller U.S. rival Grey Global for $1.31 billion,  equally divided in cash and shares, to put it on par with  industry leader Omnicom.
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The European medical products manufacturer Smith & Nephew is expected to place a bid for the medical device maker Biomet sometime this week.
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Dell said it will buy MessageOne, which was co-founded by Michael Dellâs brother, for $155 million as it aims to compete with Microsoft and Google.
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The company charged with developing  the standard for digital radio in the United States said on  Wednesday it has struck deals to convert another 2,000 stations  nationwide to its format.
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AirTran Holdings Inc.  said on Wednesday it had offered to buy rival Midwest Air Group Inc. .
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Standards will make advertising easier, more cost-effective, say GSM and Vodafone CEOs. Also, Yahoo announces new ad deals.
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Trex hopes to gain market share and deck the competition.
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Natick-based edocs Inc. is being acquired by San Mateo, Calif.-based Siebel Systems Inc. for $115 million in cash. The deal&#39;s size could expand if edocs meets unspecified performance goals next year.
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SHOPPING centre giant Westfield Group has drafted rival Multiplex and the billionaire Reuben brothers into its pound stg. 585 million ($1.
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Yahoo has acquired Maven Networks for $160 million in a deal that will help the search provider boost its video advertising capabilities.Media companies including Fox News, CBS Sports, and&#160;Sony BMG use Maven&#39;s platform to manage, distribute, and earn advertising revenue from their online video content. The platform includes an advertising insertion engine, as well as inventory management and reporting tools. Companies use it to post videos on their sites and insert interactive ads into the videos.On Tuesday, Yahoo&#160;said it plans to contribute its display advertising sales force and technologies to Maven&#39;s platform to help publishers display more targeted ads in videos. The deal means that advertisers can buy video, search, and display ads through Yahoo, which believes that video is a fast-growing segment of the online ad market.Maven has become a wholly owned subsidiary of Yahoo, which has established a Cambridge, Mass., office with the acquisition.Yahoo makes the acquisition in the midst of an increasingly hostile&#160;attempt by Microsoft to buy the search company. In response to&#160;Yahoo&#39;s rebuttal of its buyout offer, Microsoft on Monday said that it thinks its offer was fair and that it might&#160;take the offer directly to Yahoo shareholders.
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Artisoft Inc. has agreed to acquire Vertical Networks Inc. for as much as $19 million in cash in a deal that will create a vendor of IP (Internet Protocol) telephony software for call centers, medium-sized businesses and large enterprises.