Riverdeep close to Houghton Mifflin deal: sources
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Riverdeep Inc., an Irish educational software publisher, is close to a deal to buy U.S. textbook publisher Houghton Mifflin for about $3.5 billion including debt, two sources familiar with the situation told Reuters on Wednesday.
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Yahoo Inc would consider a business alliance with Google Inc as one way to rebuff a $44.6 billion takeover proposal by Microsoft, a source familiar with Yahoo's strategy said on Sunday.
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Procter & Gamble Co. is near a deal to  buy Gillette Co. for more than $54 billion in stock, creating a  dominant consumer products manufacturer with unprecedented sway  over retailers, sources familiar with the situation said on  Thursday.
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- Houghton Mifflin Co. said it agreed to acquire Anglo-Dutch publisher Reed Elsevier's  Harcourt education and trade arms in a deal valued at about $4 billion to strengthen its educational publishing business.
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In the past 24 hours sources claiming to be working on the alleged IBM deal have named Lenovo -- China&#39;s largest maker of personal computers -- as the probable buyer.
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The deal, announced Thursday, brings to an end a 16-year run for Reader's Digest as a publicly traded company. It was not yet clear whether the deal would result in management changes
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General Motors Corp.  and bankrupt auto parts maker Delphi Corp.  are "very close" to a deal with the United Auto Workers union that would help the supplier emerge from bankruptcy, a source familiar with the situation said on Thursday.
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The New York Times reports this morning that a deal is imminent between Liberty Media chairman John Malone and News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch, in which Malone will acquire one of Murdoch's prize assets - satellite service provider DirecTV - in exchange for Malone's 19% voting stake, plus 15% non-voting stake, in News Corp.
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Britain-based brewer SABMiller and a number of international rivals are interested in snapping up Colombian brewer Grupo Empresarial Bavaria, a source close to the case revealed.
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By Leslie Brooks Suzukamo, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Feb. 7--Digital River Inc. said Tuesday it will take a stock-options charge of $9.4 million after an internal investigation found the e-commerce company used the wrong measurement dates for some grants going back to 1998.
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U.S. software firms SunGard Data Systems   and Fiserv Inc FISV.O top the list of suitors expected to   submit bids for UK software company Misys by a deadline set for   later this week, sources close to the matter said on Monday.
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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.
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Textbook publisher Houghton Mifflin will be acquired by Riverdeep, an Irish educational software publisher, for $1.75 billion, the companies said on Wednesday.
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British estate agency firm Countrywide Plc  is in talks to be acquired by U.S. buyout group Apollo Management, a source familiar with the situation said on Sunday.
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Tishman Speyer Properties and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. are close to a deal to acquire the real estate investment trust Archstone-Smith Trust , the online edition of The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday.