Stake Is Bought in IAC/Interactive
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The Liberty Media Corporation, the entertainment and Internet retailing company controlled by the billionaire John C. Malone, purchased 14 million shares of IAC/InterActiveCorp, the company controlled by Barry Diller, for $339.5 million.
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Swedish-Dutch chemicals and paints group Akzo Nobel's announced Wednesday that it had completed the purchase of peer ICI.
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Advanced Micro Devices will receive preferred shares in exchange for its investment in company whose financial performance has fallen lately.
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French advertising group Publicis said on  Thursday it had bought a 49 percent stake in interactive  marketing agency Business Interactif and would make a public  offer for the rest of the company.
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EMC Corp. of Hopkinton is selling a $218.5 million stake in its VMware Inc. software subsidiary to chip maker Intel Corp. The move comes as EMC prepares to raise up to $949 million by selling about 10 percent of VMware to the public.
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The business development company makes a rare share repurchase.
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(InfoWorld) - Koninklijke Philips Electronics has completed the sale of an 80.1 percent stake in its chip division to a group of private investment houses, the company said Saturday. The stake in NXP Semiconductors, theÂ new nameÂ of the chip unit,Â was sold to a groupÂ including Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), Silver Lake Partners, and AlpInvest Partners. Philips expects to take in â¬6.4 billion ($8.12 billion) in cash from the sale, after taxes. The European electronics giant will keep a 19.9 percent share of the business. Philips said the deal places the value of NXP at â¬8.3 billion. There have been a number of chip industry deals this year, including aÂ $17.6 billion offer for Freescale SemiconductorÂ last month. In July,Â Intel soldÂ its communications and application processor business to Marvell Technology Group for $600 million, while earlier this year,Â PMC-Sierra acquiredÂ the storage semiconductor business formerly owned by Agilent Technologies for $425 million.
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He put it together and he can take it apart. When the dot-com bubble burst, Barry Diller scooped up the pieces and formed them into an e-commerce travel and entertainment empire, IAC/InterActiveCorp (nasdaq: IACI - news - people ).
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EBay looks set to complete the purchase of an online auction business in South Korea. On Thursday it filed a tender offer to acquire the remaining shares of Internet Auction (IAC) that it does not already own, in a deal valued at about $4m (Â£2.
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An agreement has been reached on the sale of the portfolio of SIV Portfolio, a structured investment vehicle, to bidders including Goldman Sachs , the fund's receivers Deloitte & Touche said on Monday.
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An investment product worthy of a spitball.
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IAC/InterActiveCorp is probably not interested in combining with AOL. But such a deal may be a good way to deal with the competition posed by Microsoftâs proposed acquisition of Yahoo.
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IAC/InterActiveCorp  is talking to potential investors interested in the four business units the Internet conglomerate plans to spin off, such as its HSN shopping network and Ticketmaster box office service, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.
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ElectricInvest Acquisitions Ltd., a division of Bahrain-based Arcapita Bank BSC, said Friday it will buy Viridian Group PLC, Northern Ireland's main power supplier, for 1.62 billion pounds ($3 billion).
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The private equity firm said it had agreed to buy an Indian back-office company, Intelenet Global Services Ltd., for an undisclosed sum.
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ExcelStor, owned by the Chinese government, is being acquired in a stock deal.
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WASHINGTON, Aug 17  - Investment company Leucadia National Corp. (LUK.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Tuesday it had bought a 4.96 percent stake in MCI Inc. (MCIP.O: Quote, Profile, Research) for about $245.9 million.