Roche wins Ventana with raised $3.4 bln bid
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Roche Holding AG  has overcome Ventana's  resistance to its takeover bid by raising the price, acquiring the diagnostics maker for $3.4 billion to boost its cancer testing business.
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BASEL, Switzerland  - Core net profit at Roche  Holding AG rose by less than expected in 2004 despite strong  sales of cancer drugs, as products such as flu drug Tamiflu  suffered a weaker fourth quarter.
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PRA International Inc., a McLean company that manages clinical trials for drug companies worldwide, said it raised $68.4 million yesterday in its initial public offering.
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Ventana Medical Systems said that its board had rejected an unsolicited $3 billion cash tender offer from the Swiss drug maker Roche Holding.
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Swiss drugmaker Roche  said on  Tuesday it still hoped its $3 billion hostile bid for Ventana  Medical Systems Inc.  could turn friendly but declined  to say whether it would sweeten the deal.
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Lear Corp.  said on Monday that  it had accepted a higher takeover offer of about $3 billion  from billionaire Carl Icahn&#39;s American Real Estate Partners LP   after shareholders balked at the previous proposal.
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Australian dairy group National Foods says its shares are worth up to 22% more than a hostile $A1.6 billion takeover offer by New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra.
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XSTRATA, the diversified miner, will have to increase its A$7.4 billion (Â£3.1 billion) bid for WMC Resources if it is to succeed, analysts have said.
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After a four-year competition, Lockheed Martin Corp. won a Navy contract worth up to $3.3 billion yesterday to develop satellites that could help soldiers and sailors communicate.
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SYDNEY/NEW YORK  - Ventana Medical Systems Inc.   VMSI.O said it would not raise its A$497 million ($374   million) bid for Australian diagnostic group Vision Systems   Ltd. VSL.AX, ceding the company to higher bidder Cytyc Corp.   CYTC.O and knocking Vision System's shares.
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Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche has posted a record full year net profit of 9.2 billion Swiss francs (7.4 billion dollars, 5.7 billion euros) in 2006, but its shares fell in morning trading as investors opted for profit-taking.
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Bulgaria's Black Sea resort Albena stocks on Wednesday rose by 1.4% storming an unprecedented high of leva (BGN) 60.00 in average price in the morning trade at the Sofia Stock Exchange.
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Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG  has lodged a complaint against Ventana Medical Systems Inc. , claiming the U.S. company is using an unfair defense against its hostile takeover offer.
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Lockheed Martin Corp. won a contract potentially worth $3 billion to provide managed network services to the U.S. Postal Service.
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Consolidation in Europe's drugs   sector gathered steam on Thursday as Germany's Merck unveiled a   $13.3-billion deal to buy Europe's top biotech firm Serono, and   Denmark's Nycomed won the drugs unit of Altana.
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Better test results for Elan Corp's key  Antegren drug lifted the Irish company's shares more than 10  percent as analysts said the data improved its chances of  becoming the leading multiple sclerosis treatment.
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