Electronic Arts Buys Stake in a Rival Game Maker in France
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By Bloomberg News. Electronic Arts, a maker of video games, said yesterday that it bought 19.9 percent of a French competitor, Ubisoft Entertainment, the maker of games based on Tom Clancy novels.
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French video game  publisher Ubisoft is entering the CGI entertainment business in  a big way, with plans to invest almost $400 million in an  expansion of its production center in Montreal with a goal to  make movies.
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Archipelago Holdings, US owner of ArcaEx, the world's largest electronic stock market, is leading the race to buy Instinet, an electronic brokerage owned by the British news and information giant Reuters.
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The world's largest computer games publisher, Electronic Arts, has opened a European test centre in Madrid, providing hundreds of video game fans from across the continent with a dream job.
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A group of video game and film  industry executives said on Monday they have formed a new video  game company with $400 million in backing from investors led by  private equity firm ABRY Partners.
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Electronic Arts Inc. , the world's biggest video game publisher, said on Thursday it had struck deals with two in-game advertising providers, taking its first steps into the online advertising business.
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Shares in French video games publisher Ubisoft Entertainment SA surged Wednesday on a report that it discussed a 'white knight' deal with Vivendi Universal SA to fight a possible takeover bid from U.S. rival Electronic Arts Inc.
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The French telecommunications operator France Telecom wants to buy the 46 percent of business telecom-services unit Equant it does not already own, marking another step in its general integration strategy.
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French video games maker Ubisoft Entertainment SA said Thursday it is not in talks with any potential merger partner as it seeks to fend off a possible takeover bid by U.S. rival Electronic Arts Inc.
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A Russian bank buys a 5% stake in EADS, the Franco-German firm which owns the Airbus fleet of aircraft.
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PARIS, Nov 12  - The European Aeronautic, Defence and Space Company (EADS) will soon launch a bid for French defence electronics group Thales in a deal orchestrated by the French government, which owns just over 15 percent of EADS and 31 percent of
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Electronic Arts Inc  posted a 44 percent rise in quarterly profit on Thursday and gave forecasts in line with Wall Street estimates, but shares  in the world's top video-game publisher fell 6 percent.
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The electronic-payment processor agreed to buy a rival, the eFunds Corporation, for about $1.8 billion to bolster its debit card business.
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Games giant Electronic Arts takes a slice of smaller French rival Ubisoft, makers of Prince of Persia and Splinter Cell.
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Wireless Internet company Tom Online Inc. on Friday said it signed a definitive agreement to buy a majority stake in Indiagames Ltd.
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Clayton, Dubilier &amp; Rice Inc. and two partners will buy an electrical-equipment supplier from France&#39;s Pinault-Printemps-Redoute SA for 2.6 billion euros ($3.45 billion), the New York-based firm&#39;s third European takeover this year.
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Electronic Arts Inc. ERTS.O, the   world's biggest video game publisher, said on Thursday it had   struck deals with two in-game advertising providers, taking its   first steps into the online advertising business.