ProSiebenSAT1 to buy SBS for 3.3 bln euros
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ProSiebenSAT1, the German commercial television group, said Wednesday that it planned to buy rival group SBS Broadcasting for 3.3 billion euros (4.4 billion dollars).
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Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has returned to the German TV market by buying a near-15 percent stake in the country's largest pay-TV broadcaster, Premiere , for 287 million euros ($421.6 million).
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Standard Chartered said it had acquired Korea First Bank for 3.3 billion dollars (2.5 billion euros) in cash, the largest foreign investment in South Korea's financial industry.
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Bouygues SA, the world&#39;s third- biggest builder, may sell its Saur unit, France&#39;s No. 3 water business, to buyout firm PAI Partners for 1.04 billion euros ($1.
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Societa' Usa spende 3,65 mld dlr per quota UnitedGlobalCom
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Swiss telecoms group Swisscom  has proposed a 3.7 billion euro ($4.9 billion) friendly takeover bid for Italian broadband operator Fastweb  in a move to break free from stagnant growth in its home market.
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Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch  has returned to the German TV market by buying a near-15  percent stake in the country's largest pay-TV broadcaster,  Premiere, for 287 million euros ($421.6 million).
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Deutsche Telekom AG, Europe's biggest telecommunications company, said Monday it will buy the remainder of SunCom Wireless Holdings Inc. for $1.6 billion in cash.
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Variety - CANNES -- Jan Mojto was back on the Croisette on Tuesday with a slew of productions from his recently acquired Beta Film, just as former Beta topper Jens Richter was making the rounds as ProSiebenSat 1's new head of international sales.
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The Swiss drug maker said it would start a tender offer to acquire Ventana Medical Systems for about $3 billion.
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Operazione da 3,3 mld per controllata France Telecom
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The company ponies up $3 billion for key spectrum in buying out bankrupt NextWave Telecom.
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Swisscom, Switzerland's biggest telecoms group, said Monday it had launched a friendly takeover bid for Italian rival Fastweb worth 3.7 billion euros (4.9 billion dollars).
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Deutsche Bank, the biggest bank in Germany, is interested in buying Abbey Life -- the direct insurance unit of Lloyds TBS estimated to be worth 1.38 billion euros (1.9 billion dollars) -- the Financial Times Deutschland reported Monday.
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Brewers Carlsberg and Heineken will buy beermaker Scottish & Newcastle for $15.3 billion, the companies said Friday.
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German banks and the regional government have agreed how they will cover some 17.5 billion euros ($25.70 billion) worth of troubled state lender SachsenLB's risks as part of a deal to rescue the bank, several sources familiar with the situation said on Thursday.
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Deutsche Telekom said it had sold its remaining 7.3 percent stake in SES Global, the world's leading satellite operator, for approximately 345 million euros (449.5 million dollars).