British Buyer to Get U.S. Law Publisher
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Incisive Media, a British provider of business news, said that it would pay about $630 million to buy the publisher of The American Lawyer and other publications in North America.
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Kidde PLC, a British fire and safety equipment maker, agreed Wednesday to open its books to United Technologies Corp. after receiving a new takeover offer from the US engineering giant.
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Is the newspaper publisher's interest in the online magazine a stab at building a pay product?
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The new magazine for investment bankers, called Dealmaker, will make its debut in the U.S. in November and in Europe next spring.
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The Washington Post is buying Slate, the pioneering online magazine, from Microsoft for a sum estimated to be between $15m (Â£7.8m) and $20m.
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Houghton Mifflin agreed to buy the Harcourt education and trade publishing units from the publisher Reed Elsevier for $4 billion in cash and stock.
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Media & professional: Despite opposition, Rupert's $5bn bid for the Wall Street Journal is likely to succeed - with implications for British papers. James Robinson reports.
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Media & professional: The Financial Times's parent company, Pearson, is seeking partners to mount a takeover bid for the Wall Street Journal.
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British advertising group WPP said over the weekend it would acquire rival Grey Global of the United States in a cash and stock deal worth 1.520 billion euros (1.246 billion dollars).
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Federal-Mogul, the engineering company whose bankruptcy in the US is threatening the pensions of thousands of workers at its subsidiary Turner &amp; Newall, is sizing up a sale of its UK businesses.
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If Pope Benedict hopes his first book will sell like Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code," he wound up with the right U.S. publisher.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, the British publisher of the smash Harry Potter series, said Wednesday it has agreed to buy Walker Publishing Co. Inc., which publishes adult nonfiction and children's books.
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Chicago-based publisher Hollinger International Inc. (HLR.N: Quote, Profile, Research) is considering the sale or merger of assets at its new media arm, a British newspaper said on Monday.
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Deal to buy UK travel company expected to close next April, funded with Wright IPO proceeds. NEW YORK  - Travel and real estate company Cendant Corp.
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Canadian electronic publisher  Thomson Corp  won conditional permission from antitrust  regulators at the U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday to buy  Reuters Group Plc , a deal that will create the world's  leading provider of news and data for professional markets.
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Media & professional: Wall Street Journal's publisher takes control of negotiations over possible sale to Rupert Murdoch.
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The Atex Group, a British maker of publishing software, agreed to buy the Unisys CorporationÂs media unit, another publisher of software, for undisclosed terms. Atex, based in Reading, England, raised more than $50 million for the purchase and for the costs of integrating the businesses. The media unit makes software that helps publishers manage production tasks and news agency reports. The acquisition may increase AtexÂs newspaper clients by almost half. Unisys, based in Blue Bell, Pa., is selling the unit to focus on computers and consulting services.