Naspers buys UK's Tradus for $1.9 bln, shares dip
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Africa's largest media firm,  Naspers Ltd (NPNJn.J), said on Tuesday it would buy UK Internet  auction firm Tradus  for 946 million pounds ($1.90  billion) to extend its reach into central and eastern Europe.
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Singapore&#39;s state-owned Temasek Holdings   has approached Nasdaq  to buy its 30 percent  stake in the London Stock Exchange , a newspaper  reported on Sunday.
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Morgan Stanley and Apax Partners Worldwide LLP agreed to buy Chicago-based Hub International Ltd. for $1.8 billion in the second buyout of a US insurance brokerage in six weeks.
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Shares of Nastech Pharmaceutical Co.  Inc. NSTK.O jumped 23 percent before the bell on Monday after  the company said it tied up with Merck & Co. MRK.N to develop  and market Nastech's experimental nasal spray treatment for  obesity.
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The company behind the Madame Tussauds and London Eye tourist attractions is bought in a Â£1bn deal.
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Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., which lost its battle to cross the Atlantic with a failed bid for the London Stock Exchange, agreed Friday to buy Nordic stock exchange operator OMX AB for 25.1 billion kronor
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Australian financial software group Computershare Ltd. (CPU.AX: Quote, Profile, Research) has agreed to buy US share registrar EquiServe for $292 million from DST Systems Inc.
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To help fund the $877 million purchase, Auckland Energy Consumer Trust-owned Vector will float 24.9 percent of its shares on the stock exchange.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 31, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Gulfport Energy Corporation (Nasdaq:GPOR) today announced that it has priced a public offering of 1,150,000 shares of its common stock at $11.92 per share to the public.
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French technology firm Thomson  on Monday said it would join Microsoft Corp. and Time Warner Inc. in a venture to buy U.S.-based anti-piracy software maker ContentGuard, a move that could defuse objections by European regulators.
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Africa's largest media firm  Naspers Ltd (NPNJn.J) will buy British-based Internet auction  company Tradus (QXL Ricardo Plc)  for 946 million  pounds ($1.90 billion), the company said on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK, November 4  - Penn National Gaming Inc (PENN.NAS) has agreed to acquire Argosy Gaming Company (AGY) in a $1.
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Shares of Artisan Components (ARTI:Nasdaq - news - research) were among the best-performing technology stocks Monday after the company agreed to be acquired by ARM Holdings (ARMHY:Nasdaq - news - research) for $913 million in cash and stock.
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Telecommunication networking firm Applied Innovation Inc has agreed to be bought by KEG Holdings Inc for $52.7m in cash. The deal is worth $3.45 per share.  Hillsoboro, Oregon-based KEG is the parent company of high-speed network access equipment manufacturer Kentrox LLC.
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The Dutch Government has for Â£1.93 billion bought total control of a pipeline being built to tackle the gas shortages which have sent UK energy prices soaring, after Shell and Esso.
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British advertising agency company WPP Group PLC has clinched a deal to buy Grey Global Group of New York in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $1.
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Thomson, the world&#39;s largest supplier of television set-top boxes, said Monday that it would buy a stake in ContentGuard, a US maker of anti-piracy software, in a deal that would make it a partner with Microsoft and Time Warner.