Independent buys into India paper
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Independent News & Media buys a 26% stake in Indian newspaper company Jagran, in a deal worth 25m euros.
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News Corp offers to buy out minority investors in Fox Entertainment Group, its TV and film subsidiary, for about $5.4bn.
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International Paper Co. IP.N, the  world's largest forest products company,  on Wednesday said it  would sell its fine paper business to privately held Mohawk  Paper Mills.
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DINESH DHAMIJA, the chairman and chief executive of Ebookers, last night looked set to land a Â£90 million windfall after agreeing to a takeover of the online travel group he founded.
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Stora Enso Oyj, one of the world's largest makers of paper products, is selling its North American unit for about $2.1 billion to an Ohio-based company owned by the private equity firm Cerberus Capital.
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Publishing group Washington Post Company buys up pioneering online magazine Slate from Microsoft.
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Tata Steel of India has bought Anglo-Dutch producer Corus for 13.7 billion dollars, beating Brazilian rival CSN in an auction that highlighted the growing global clout of emerging market companies.
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Business & money: Britain's best-known Indian food brand is being sold to Associated British Foods in a deal thought to be worth more than Â£100m.
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(InfoWorld) - Oracle Corp. intends to acquire another 20 percent of the equity of Indian financial software company I-Flex Solutions Ltd. Oracle informed the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) in Mumbai on Wednesday of its intention. Oracle has offered to buy 16.63 million equity shares in I-Flex for Indian Rupees 1,475.00 (US$32) per share. The deal will total about $531 million if I-Flex shareholders accept the offer, which opens Nov. 6 and closes Nov. 25. Oracle of Redwood Shores, California, already holds a majority stake in I-Flex, based in Mumbai. The company announced last month that it would invest $125 million in I-Flex to increase its stake from 52.5 percent to 55.1 percent. The investment would help I-Flex fund its $122.6 million cash acquisition of Mantas Inc., a vendor of anti-money laundering and compliance software and services in Herndon, Virginia, I-Flex said. Oracle had said in August that it intended to increase its stake in I-Flex to meet Indian regulations regarding the acquisition of shares and takeovers. A number of multinational companies that have bought stakes in Indian companies, have then bought out joint venture partners or minority shareholders. In 2003, Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) bought out the public share holding in Digital GlobalSoft Ltd., a software development and services subsidiary in Bangalore in which it had a majority holding. HP said at the time that it did not want a listed subsidiary in India because then it would be accountable to two sets of shareholders -- HPâs and Digital GlobalSoft's. IBM Corp. also bought out its joint venture partner, the Tata Group, to run its Indian operation as a wholly owned subsidiary. Oracle has, however, stated that it would like to retain the independence of the management and operations of I-Flex.
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Business services group Rentokil Initial has bought parcel delivery company Target Express for 210 million pounds in cash (311 million euros, 410 million dollars), adding that it was looking to sell its electronic security business.
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The share flotation of India's Reliance Power raises $3bn (Â£1.5bn), making it India's biggest initial public offering.
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ElectricInvest Acquisitions Ltd., a division of Bahrain-based Arcapita Bank BSC, said Friday it will buy Viridian Group PLC, Northern Ireland's main power supplier, for 1.62 billion pounds ($3 billion).
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Scottish &amp; Newcastle, the drinks group that sells Foster&#39;s and Kronenbourg lager in Europe, announced yesterday that it is investing $171m (Â£88m) in the largest brewer in India.
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London - Indian-born billionaire Lakshmi Mittal has agreed to acquire the US&#39;s International Steel Group for about $4.5 billion (R27.
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Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd., an Indian long-distance phone company owned by the $14 billion Tata group, said it will buy Tyco International Ltd.
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c50445  ) has announced the addition of Indian Media Market 2007 to their  offering.
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An investor group led by two  well-known Philadelphia-area executives could seal a deal this  week to buy the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News newspapers  for up to &#36;600 million, a source close to the matter said on  Monday.