WPP Bids for Gray Global -WSJ
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Britain&#39;s WPP Group Plc has offered to pay more than $1.25 billion for advertising firm Gray Global Group, the Wall Street Journal said on Thursday, citing an unidentified person familiar with the matter.
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Investment bank Lehman Brothers  Holdings Inc. is negotiating to buy GLG Partners, a leading  British hedge fund, the Wall Street Journal reported on  Thursday, citing unnamed sources.
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Financial Times publisher Pearson Plc  is seeking partners to make a possible bid for Wall Street Journal owner Dow Jones & Co. Inc. , the Journal reported on its Web site on Friday.
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LONDON, England -- UK-based advertising giant WPP Group says it has won the bidding to acquire US agency Grey Global. WPP, the world&#39;s second-largest advertising company, said Sunday it had reached agreement
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Dow Jones & Co. delivered a proposal to safeguard its editorial independence to News Corp. on Friday, the first step in a negotiation about a possible News Corp. takeover, according to the online edition of the Wall Street Journal.
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General Electric Co. and Pearson Plc may challenge News Corp.'s $5 billion bid for Dow Jones & Co., with a plan that could let Dow Jones's controlling Bancroft family keep an interest in the company, the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal reported on their Web sites on Sunday.
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General Electric Co.  and  Microsoft Corp.  discussed joining forces for a  competing bid for Dow Jones & Co.  in recent weeks, but  the idea was abandoned, the Wall Street Journal reported on  Monday.
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Meeting on the deadline to submit bids to buy Grey Global Group, Havas&#39; board of directors Wednesday morning approved the recommendation of the Paris-based ad holding company&#39;s executive committee to make a play for Grey.
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Members of the Bancroft family,  which controls Dow Jones & Co. Inc. , met in Boston on  Monday to consider a $5 billion offer by Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News  Corp (NWSa.N)  for the publisher of The Wall Street  Journal.
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The General Electric Company and Pearson are exploring a joint bid for Dow Jones & Company, people familiar with the talks said.
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UK advertising group WPP beats France's Havas to win a bidding war for US firm Grey Global which could cost as much as Â£750m.
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Media & professional: The Financial Times's parent company, Pearson, is seeking partners to mount a takeover bid for the Wall Street Journal.
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WPP Group PLC, the London-based advertising giant, said Monday it was buying U.S.-based Grey Global Group in a &#36;1.52 billion cash and stock deal.
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BOSTON/NEW YORK  - Members of the Bancroft family that controls Dow Jones & Co Inc met in Boston on Monday to consider a $5 billion offer by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp  for the publisher of The Wall Street Journal.
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NEW YORK Each quarter seems to bring a new, sizable acquisition by an industry holding company scrambling to add to its digital portfolio. In the last year alone, Publicis has added Digitas in a $1.3 billion headline-grabbing deal, and has also spent over $200 million on digital shops in France and China. WPP, in addition to a flurry of investments in emerging media, has purchased 24/7 Real Media for $649 million, Schematic and, sources say, is finalizing a deal to snap up Canadian digital shop Blast Radius. ...
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French advertising group Havas said last night it would bid for US rival Grey Global, joining expected bids from the UK&#39;s WPP and an American buyout firm.
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LONDON With its agreement to buy Grey Global Group, Sir Martin Sorrell has placed his London-based WPP Group in position to rival Omnicom Group as the world&#39;s largest advertising company.