Naspers buys UK's Tradus for $1.9 bln
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Africa's largest media firm, Naspers Ltd , said on Tuesday it would buy UK Internet auction firm Tradus  for 946 million pounds ($1.90 billion) to extend its reach into central and eastern Europe.
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WPP Group (WPPGY:Nasdaq ADR - news - research) sank 3% after the British ad agency agreed to buy New York&#39;s Grey Global (GREY:Nasdaq - news - research) for about $1.
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ARM Holdings, the British semi-conductor design company, said it has agreed to buy US technology group Artisan Components Inc. for 913 million dollars (743 million euros) in a cash and stock deal.
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UK aerospace to medical goods group Smiths buys one of the world's leading medical products manufacturers, Medex, for $925m.
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Britain's Imperial Tobacco has agreed to buy Franco-Spanish rival Altadis for Â£11bn.
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Business & money: Â· Drinks group signs Â£460m deal with Ketel OneÂ· Dutch vodka expected to cut into top seller's market
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Diversified manufacturer Ingersoll-Rand Co Ltd  said on Monday it would buy Trane Inc , a maker of heating and air conditioning systems, for about $9.56 billion in cash and stock.
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Britain's Imperial Tobacco  agreed to buy Franco-Spanish rival Altadis  on Wednesday in a 16.2 billion euros ($22.4 billion) deal that includes debt.
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General Electric Co.  on Wednesday said it would buy Ionics Inc.  for about &#36;1.1 billion to build out its water treatment and services business.
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Charterhouse has beaten off competition from another private equity player to buy Saga, the company that provides services to the over-50s, for Â£1.
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Smiths Group Plc, which makes insulin pumps and anthrax-detection systems for the US Postal Service, agreed to buy Medex Inc. for $625 million in cash to expand its medical-equipment division.
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Australian financial software group Computershare Ltd. (CPU.AX: Quote, Profile, Research) has agreed to buy US share registrar EquiServe for $292 million from DST Systems Inc.
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Cendant Corp. said Thursday it has agreed to acquire Gullivers Travel Associates and Octopus Travel Group Ltd. of Britain for about &#36;1.1 billion in cash.
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General Electric Co. (GE.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Wednesday said it would buy Ionics Inc. (ION.N: Quote, Profile, Research) for about $1.1 billion to build out its water treatment and services business.
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Africa's largest media firm  Naspers Ltd (NPNJn.J) will buy British-based Internet auction  company Tradus (QXL Ricardo Plc)  for 946 million  pounds ($1.90 billion), the company said on Tuesday.
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News Corp. on Monday said it has  agreed to buy a U.K. jobs recruitment site for an undisclosed  sum to reach a younger audience.
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Linux distributor Red Hat Inc. RHAT.O  said on Thursday that it had bought Netscape's computer user  identification and management technology from America Online  Inc., a unit of Time Warner Inc. TWX.N