Gartner to buy Meta Group in $162M deal
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NEW YORK -- Market-research firm Gartner Inc. has agreed to acquire fellow Meta Group Inc. for about $162 million in cash. Gartner Monday said it will pay $10 for each share of Meta, a 54 percent premium to
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Gartner says the addition of Meta&#39;s sales team will boost sales, and their complementary operations will improve efficiency. By Eric Chabrow.
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British advertising agency company WPP Group PLC has clinched a deal to buy Grey Global Group of New York in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $1.
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IT researcher GartnerÂ will pay about $162 million to acquire Meta Group, which also does IT research as well as consulting, Gartner announced Monday.
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Global Tower Partners, a U.S. wireless tower operator, is to be bought by a consortium of infrastructure funds managed by members of Australia's Macquarie Group in a deal valued at $1.4 billion.
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General Electric Co.  said on  Thursday it will sell its advanced materials business, which  includes silicones and quartz, to private equity firm Apollo  Management LP for about $3.8 billion in cash and securities.
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Global IT research major Gartner Inc is buying out IT consulting firm META Group for $162 million, in an all-cash transaction at $10.00 per share.
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TOKYO (CBS.MW) - General Electric Co. said Wednesday it will buy Australian Financial Investments Group, a holding company for home loan lenders, to boost its mortgage business in that country.
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Gartner Group, the information technology research company, has agreed to buy rival Meta Group, for $162m in cash. Gartner is offering $10 a share, a 54 per cent premium to Meta&#39;s previous closing price on Nasdaq.
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Independent oil and gas producer Plains Exploration & Production Co.  will buy peer Pogo Producing Co.  for $3.46 billion in stock and cash, nearly doubling its production capacity, Plains said on Tuesday.
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General Growth Properties Inc.  GGP.N, the No. 2 U.S. shopping mall owner, has agreed to buy  Rouse Co. RSE.N for $7.2 billion, expanding its holdings of  regional shopping centers and commercial property, the  companies said on Friday.
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Market-research firm Gartner Inc. has agreed to acquire rival Meta Group Inc. for about $162 million US in cash. Gartner said Monday it will pay $10 for each share of Meta, a 54 per cent premium
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LOS ANGELES: A group headed by Sony Corp of America on Monday agreed to buy Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for about US$2.
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Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall  Street Journal, has agreed to buy online financial news  provider MarketWatch Inc. for about $463 million in a bid to  boost its revenue from the fast-growing Internet advertising  market.
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Australia&#39;s Computershare Ltd has agreed to buy EquiServe of the United States for $292 million, making it the largest US share registrar and driving its shares up by a third.
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General Growth Properties Inc. (GGP.N), the No. 2 U.S. shopping mall owner, on Friday said it would buy Rouse Co. (RSE.N) for &#36;7.2 billion, expanding its holdings of regional shopping centers and commercial property.
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The real estate arm of diversified   conglomerate General Electric Co. GE.N agreed on Wednesday to   buy a $2.2 billion portfolio of U.S. industrial, residential   and commercial properties, but said it would sell some retail   properties to another investor.