Houghton Mifflin to Be Acquired by Irish Publisher
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Riverdeep Holdings, an Irish educational software company, agreed yesterday to acquire the American textbook publisher Houghton Mifflin for $1.75 billion.
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Newspaper publisher GateHouse Media Inc.  said on Friday it will buy seven newspapers in Massachusetts from Journal Register Co.  for $70 million.
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Irish budget airline Ryanair has said that shareholders owning 0.9 percent of rival Irish airline Aer Lingus had accepted its takeover offer.
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IBM Corp. said Wednesday it is buying an Irish-based financial outsourcing firm, Equitant Ltd., as part of its transition from a computer-maker to a provider of financial outsourcing expertise.
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Polaroid Corp. of Waltham yesterday said it would end 68 years as an independent company and will be acquired by Petters Group Worldwide LLC of Minnetonka, Minn., a private conglomerate the buys and operates consumer products companies, for $426 million.
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An investor group led by two  well-known Philadelphia-area executives could seal a deal this  week to buy the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News newspapers  for up to &#36;600 million, a source close to the matter said on  Monday.
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The Danske Bank Group has signed an agreement with National Australia Bank to purchase Northern Bank (www.nbonline.co.uk) in Northern Ireland and National Irish Bank (www.
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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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The Association of American Publishers is offering financial assistance for U.S. publishers interested in releasing English-langauge editions of three Iranian novels, to help open up a tight market for books in translation.
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MTS buys a controlling stake in the leading Armenian cell operator.
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For the third time in five years, Boston publisher Houghton Mifflin Co. has a new owner.
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Eastman Kodak EK.N on Monday said it  would buy printing technology firm Creo Inc. CREO.O CRE.TO  for about $980 million in cash to bolster its strategy to push  more aggressively into commercial printing.
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UK publisher Emap has agreed to sell its Irish radio stations to Communicorp Group for 200m euros ($275m; Â£135.3m) in cash.
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The Tribune Company sold Hoy New York, its Spanish-language newspaper, to ImpreMedia, a leading Spanish-language publisher.
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Warner Bros. Pictures  has pre-emptively picked up the rights to "Here, There Be  Dragons," an upcoming children's novel by James A. Owen.
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Dutch publishing group VNU is to sell its directories business, including the Golden Pages in Ireland, to venture capital groups Apax and Cinven for just over â¬2 billion.
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Irish investment company HM Rivergroup said that it has agreed to buy two US publishers, Houghton Mifflin and Riverdeep for a combined 4.6 billion dollars (3.5 billion euros).