Vivendi to buy BMG for $2.1 bln
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Vivendi's Universal Music has agreed to   buy BMG Music Publishing for 1.63 billion euros ($2.1 billion)   in a long-expected deal that makes the world's biggest seller   of recorded music also the largest in music publishing.
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German media group Bertelsmann agrees to sell its BMG Music Publishing Group to Vivendi's Universal Music for 1.63bn euros.
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has   agreed to buy 51 percent of Verisign Inc.'s ringtones unit   Jamba for $187.5 million, Berlin-based Jamba said on Tuesday,   confirming a report in the Wall Street Journal.
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German media company Bertelsmann AG has signed a "definitive agreement" to sell BMG Music Publishing Group to Vivendi for $2.09 billion, the companies announced Wednesday.
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Microsoft has offered to buy Norwegian Internet-search software firm Fast Search & Transfer for about $1.2 billion.
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The German media company Bertelsmann agreed today to sell its music publishing business to a French competitor, Vivendi.
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The Dutch publisher VNU, which owns the Nielsen TV ratings service, said Monday it signed a deal to sell its World Directories unit for $2.
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Bertelsmann AG plans to retain ownership  of Sony BMG after determining it can afford to pay 4.5 billion  euros (&#36;5.8 billion) to buy back a stake in the German media  conglomerate without selling its half of the world&#039;s second  biggest music company.
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Chemicals maker to repurchase $2B of its shares.
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Bertelsmann [BERT.UL] expects it will cost around 370 million euros ($445 million) to bring together and restructure Sony BMG, its music joint venture with Japan&#39;s Sony (6758.
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By From news reports  Vivendi's Universal Music Group unit said Wednesday that it would acquire BMG Music Publishing from Bertelsmann for about $2.1 billion, making Universal the world's largest music publisher, with a catalog that includes performers of the standing of Elton John and B.B.
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VIVENDI, whose Universal Music arm is the worldâs biggest music group, has been given the go-ahead by the French government to file returns under a new tax regime that will save it roughly Â£2.
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US software giant Microsoft said on Tuesday it would offer to buy the Norwegian Internet search company Fast Search and Transfer for 1.2 billion dollars (836 million euros).
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Vivendi's Universal Music has agreed to  buy BMG Music Publishing for 1.63 billion euros ($2.1 billion)  in a long-expected deal that makes the world's biggest seller  of recorded music also the largest in music publishing.
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French media and telecommunications giant Vivendi on Wednesday reported full-year adjusted net profit of 2.61 billion euros (3.43 billion dollars), up 17.9 percent from a year earlier.
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Microsoft Corp  has offered to buy Norwegian Internet-search software firm Fast Search & Transfer  for 19 crowns per share, valuing it at about $1.2 billion, the companies said on Tuesday.
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Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday it agreed to buy a Norwegian search company for $1.2 billion, aiming to shore up its search technology for businesses against competition from Oracle Corp. and IBM Corp.