U.S. retailer Neways for sale at $600-700 mln: sources
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U.S. cosmetics and health care company  Neways Inc. is on sale in Japan for about $600-700 million,  with private equity houses among the bidders, sources familiar  with the process said on Tuesday.
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Privately-owned British fashion retailer New Look may be sold for 2 billion pounds ($3.91 billion) after private-equity firms Apax and Permira received at least three bid approaches for the firm, The Sunday Times said.
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Spending by Americans shopping online during this year's holiday season rose 24 percent to $8.8 billion, with sharp gains in purchases of clothing and entertainment, Web company VeriSign Inc. said on Thursday.
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Internet services company Verisign said the month-long shopping season in Nov-Dec. was worth $8.8 billion, up 24%. The company reported gross sales of $8.8 billion (about Rs 42,000 crore).
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Mid-priced clothing retailer and maker  Jones Apparel Group Inc. JNY.N said on Thursday it was buying  Barneys New York Inc. BNNY.OB in a deal worth $400 million as  a move to expand into luxury apparel retailing.
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TROY, MI-Kmart and Sears have closed a deal in which Kmart will sell 50 stores to Sears for $575.9 million. Troy-based Kmart Holding Corp.
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Dutch retail giant Ahold has announced that it has sold its Spanish retail operations to European private equity firm Permira for around â¬685m (US$846.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc.  said on Monday it will cut prices on more than 16,000 items in its stores and launch a new ad campaign as the world's largest retailer tries to reinvigorate sales for the back-to-school shopping season.
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In a candid discussion of his classified ads site and its business model, Craigslist founder Craig Newmark said Tuesday he has considered open-sourcing some Craiglist technology, frowns upon banner ads, and believes the site's impact on newspaper ad sales is exaggerated.Speaking at the WebGuild Web 2.0 Conference &amp; Expo in Santa Clara, Calif. Tuesday morning, Newmark detailed how the site began as a simple events list in 1995 and evolved into a real company in 1999. Now, the site has grown to one that experienced 9 billion hits per month prior to the recent holiday season. Craigslist is run on Suse Linux, Apache, and MySQL, Newmark said.Pondering Craigslist's open-source plans, Newmark said the company has considered open-sourcing some of its caching technology but said staffing issues have prevented this from happening; the company has 25 employees.Asked the benefit of such a contribution, Newmark cited benevolence. "I don't know [the specific benefits], but it feels in the right neighborly spirit," he said.Craigslist, he said, has been successful because it has built a culture of trust working with people. The company makes money by charging for job postings in 11 cities and for apartment listings in one city. But the company has declined to do banner ads, said Newmark. He added he already makes enough money."Banner ads are often kind of dumb, and they slow the site down. I'm not interested," he said.Newmark recognized that the site has affected newspaper classified advertising, but he stressed that the impact has been greatly exaggerated. "I figure the biggest problems newspapers have these days have to do with fact-checking," said Newmark.Craigslist is growing, he said. "We are helping out lots of people, probably in the tens of millions. We need to be prepared for that growth," Newmark said. The company must improve its software and get new servers, he said.Newmark's own role has evolved from being the founder writing code to doing customer service, he said. "I haven't written code since the end of 1999. It makes me sad," said Newmark.Also at the conference, Gil Penchina, CEO of Wikia.com, which is community site supporting development of wikis, cited the company's open source search efforts with its Wikia Search project. The project currently is in an alpha stage of development.
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Jones Apparel Group Inc. (JNY.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , a mid-priced clothing retailer and maker, said on Thursday it was buying Barneys New York Inc.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc.  said on  Thursday it will charge less than $700 for two multimedia  desktop personal computer bundles from PC maker Dell Inc.   that it plans to start selling next month.
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Nuovo massimo storico sul mercato di New York
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Sometimes, buying new is worth the expense.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Monday said it expected sales at its US stores open at least a year to be in the middle of a previously forecast rise of between
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Boeing Co. could sell up to 50 of its new  7E7 planes to Japan Airlines Corp. (JAL) worth as much as $6  billion at list prices under a deal announced on Wednesday.
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U.S. retailers' sales rose 3.6 percent in holiday shopping, at the lower end of expectations, helped by a late-season spending surge on some items, according to data released on Tuesday by SpendingPulse.
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Kmart Holding Corp. will sell 18 stores to Atlanta-based The Home Depot Inc. for $271 million. Home Depot had previously agreed to buy up to 24 Kmart (Nasdaq: KMRT) stores for a price of up to $365 million.