Thomson-Reuters deal wins U.S. antitrust approval
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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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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Thursday approved Google's $3.1 billion purchase of DoubleClick, saying the much-criticized deal did not pose a threat to competition in Internet advertising.
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Thomson, the world&#39;s largest supplier of television set-top boxes, said Monday that it would buy a stake in ContentGuard, a US maker of anti-piracy software, in a deal that would make it a partner with Microsoft and Time Warner.
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Shareholders in European stock market operator Euronext have approved an alliance with the New York Stock Exchange that would create the world's first intercontinental stock exchange.
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U.S. antitrust authorities approved plans by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc.  on Monday to acquire CBOT Holdings Inc. , saying the proposed combination of the two largest U.S. futures markets probably would not hurt competition.
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Company settled legal disputes Monday with two of its largest remaining antagonists in a move that will ensure its antitrust deal will not be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. -The Washington Post
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Thomson Corporation said Tuesday it expected to close its 17-billion-dollar takeover of British media group Reuters in April after regulatory approval in the US, Canada and European Union.
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The House of Representatives on Thursday approved a huge corporate tax bill aimed at ending a trade dispute with the European Union while giving American manufacturers a new tax break.
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Shareholders approved Aether Systems Inc.'s sale of one of its two remaining operating divisions yesterday, a deal that will take the Owings Mills company out of the wireless business and nearly complete its transformation into a mortgage investment fund.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium -- European Union antitrust regulators on Wednesday approved the acquisition of U.S.-based Solectron Corp. by Singapore's Flextronics International Ltd., saying the $3.6 billion deal did not pose any competition concerns.
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The European Commission approved US software company Oracle&#39;s 7.7 billion-dollar takeover bid for its American rival in the business software market Peoplesoft on Tuesday.
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Shareholders in the Chicago Board of Trade approve its $11.9bn (Â£5.9bn) merger with Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
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NYSE Euronext launched on Thursday an  exchange offer for all outstanding shares of pan-European  bourse operator Euronext  after the U.S. securities  regulators approved its translatlantic merger.
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Thomson Corp. completed its evolution into an electronic purveyor of financial, legal and scientific information today as it sold Thomson Media - the last of its traditional advertising-based publishing businesses â-or $350 million US.
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U.S. antitrust authorities said on Thursday they approved plans by German conglomerate Siemens AG  to buy industrial design software maker UGS Corp. for $3.5 billion.
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U.S. antitrust authorities yesterday approved a plan by Lockheed Martin Corp. and Boeing Co. to merge their government rocket businesses, creating a monopoly in a multibillion-dollar market that the Federal Trade Commission acknowledged will probably lead to higher prices and lower quality.
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US anti-monopoly officials approve Johnson & Johnson's purchase of Pfizer's over-the-counter medicines.