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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The Dutch navigation systems company said it plans to make a cash offer of 21.25 euros per share for digital map supplier Tele Atlas, valuing the company at 2 billion euros ($2.76 billion).
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EU regulators on Friday opened an antitrust probe of Universal Music Group's plans to buy BMG Music Publishing for about $2.1 billion, saying the deal could damage "the already concentrated music publishing market."
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Nearly a year since it was sold by Vivendi Universal (V) to private investors, online retailer eMusic has undergone a facelift that includes a panel of music critics to help users comb its trove of independent music.    The revamped service, scheduled to debut Wednesday, is the latest evolution for the pioneering retailer, the first to sell digital music files online in the late 1990s...
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Telecommunications equipment maker Ericsson AB  will buy data networking equipment vendor Redback Networks Inc.  for $2.1 billion in cash, the companies said on Tuesday.
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Microsoft Corp has offered to buy Norwegian Internet-search software firm Fast Search & Transfer for 19 crowns per share, valuing the company at about $1.2 billion, the companies said on Tuesday.
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The Warner Music Group, Viacom and the Universal Music Group are the final bidders for the BMG Music Publishing unit.
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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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Vivendi's Universal Music, the world's   largest seller of recorded music, is vaulting to the top spot   in music publishing too after agreeing to buy BMG Music   Publishing for 1.63 billion euros ($2.1 billion).
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Chemicals maker to repurchase $2B of its shares.
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The French media and telecommunications group Vivendi Universal said it would earn 1.5 billion euros (1.9 billion dollars) from the sale of a 15 percent stake in the utilities and water company Veolia Environnement.
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VNU, the Dutch market research and information group, yesterday sold its directories business for â¬2.1bn (Â£1.4bn) to venture capital groups Apax Partners and Cinven.
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PARIS Vivendi Universal, the entertainment and communications group, clinched a deal with the French government on Thursday that would reduce the company&#39;s tax bill by billions of euros over the next several years in exchange for a pledge to create
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Nexen Inc. agreed to buy fellow Canadian energy company EnCana Corp.&#39;s UK business for $2.1 billion, gaining control of Britain&#39;s biggest oil discovery in more than a decade amid record crude prices.
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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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U.S. media conglomerate Viacom has   teamed up with private equity group Apollo to submit an offer   for BMG Music Publishing in a bid battle that could top 1.5   billion euros ($1.92 billion), sources close to the matter   said.
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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.