Finns Buy Independent Media for $186M
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Finnish media giant Sanoma has agreed to pay 142 million euros ($186 million) for all of Dutch-owned Independent Media, the largest publisher of consumer magazines in Russia, both companies said Wednesday.
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Kemira Oyj will acquire all shares in Finnish Chemicals Oy from Erikem Luxembourg S.A., the acquisition vehicle for private investors led by PPM Ventures together with Montagu Private Equity and MB Funds.
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The Finnish media has transfixed the nation with the story of a mother who has defied the Finnish Supreme Court for over a month by refusing to comply with an order to return her children to their American ...
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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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The Swedish-Finnish telecommunications operator TeliaSonera said it had bought the remaining 10 percent stake in Lithuania's major mobile company Omnitel that it did not already own for 63.5 million dollars (51.4 million euros).
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Blog: Stock photo site continues its push into the digital media market by purchasing the independent music licensing company for $42 million.
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Walt Disney&#39;s international  television arm said on Monday it would let viewers of Finnish  commercial broadcaster Nelonen pay to watch hit shows on the  Internet four days after their U.S. release.
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Getty Images said it planned to buy the celebrity photo distributor WireImage for $200 million and is in talks to acquire another rival, Jupitermedia.
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Internet service provider's subscribers will be able to buy its premium services individually through Valista's technology.
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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 &#36;2.6 billion to a group assembled by the private equity firms Apax Partners Worldwide and Cinven Group Ltd.
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Torstar Corp. and Metro International  S.A. said on Thursday they will acquire the interest of Metro  free daily newspapers in Vancouver and Ottawa held by CanWest  MediaWorks Publications Inc..
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$160m cash purchase to propel digital music market entry
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The Finnish government said it would sell between 250 and 300 million shares, or as much as 6.4 percent of its stake, in Nordic telecommunications operator TeliaSonera.
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Jupitermedia forges ahead with the purchase of MediaBistro.com.
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Blog: The Finnish cell phone manufacturer announces that it has bought the Redmond, Wash.-based start-up, which specializes in multimedia sharing.
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GTech Corp. has signed a five-year contract with Veikkaus Oy, the operator of the Finnish national lottery, worth up to $67 million.
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Brown-Forman Corp., the maker of Jack Daniel&#39;s whiskey and Southern Comfort liqueur, said Monday that is buying the remaining 20 percent of Finlandia Vodka Worldwide Ltd.