Roche says to acquire Ventana for $3.4 billion
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Roche Holding AG  has agreed to  buy Ventana Medical Systems Inc  for $3.4 billion to  boost its diagnostics business, the Swiss drugmaker said on  Tuesday, raising its earlier bid.
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Consolidation in Europe's drugs  sector gathered steam on Thursday as Germany's Merck unveiled a  $13.3-billion deal to buy Europe's top biotech firm Serono, and  Denmark's Nycomed won the drugs unit of Altana.
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FRANKFURT/ZURICH  - German drugmaker Merck KGaA   MRCG.DE unveiled a surprise 16.6-billion-Swiss franc ($13.3   billion) deal to buy Swiss biotech firm Serono on Thursday,   creating a new force in European pharmaceuticals.
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Dutch Philips Electronics  said on Friday it is to buy U.S. medical products company Respironics for 3.6 billion euros ($5.17 billion) or $66 per share to strengthen its healthcare business.
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Drug and nutritional products maker Perrigo Co. is buying pharmaceutical company Agis Industries Ltd. for about $818 million as part of its effort to expand into the generic prescription drug market.
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Cognos Inc., the largest Canadian software maker, offered to buy Sweden&#39;s Frango AB for 390.8 million kronor ($51.7 million) to expand in corporate performance management software.
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The nation's fourth-largest bank plans to shore up $3.5 billion
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Gruppo di Novara ha acquistato 4,4 mln di azioni sul mercato
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Groupe Danone, the worldâs largest yogurt products company, said it planned to buy Royal Numico for 12.3 billion euros ($16.8 billion).
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The Swiss pharmaceuticals giant Roche, manufacturer of anti-flu drug Tamiflu, said its first-half net profit had increased by 37 percent to 4.54 billion Swiss francs (2.9 billion euros, 3.62 billion dollars).
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Australia's Centro Properties  Group  and Centro Retail Trust  have agreed to  buy New Plan Excel Realty Trust  for about $3.4 billion  in cash, accelerating Centro's push into the United States.
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The database software said it would buy Hyperion, which makes business analysis software, for $3.3 billion.
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Private investment firm Colony Capital  LLC has agreed to pay 4 billion euros ($5.4 billion) for  Libya&#39;s European oil company Tamoil and Oilinvest.
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THE REGION Cytyc Corp., a Marlborough maker of medical testing products, increased its offer to buy Australia's Vision Systems Ltd. to $517 million, topping a rival $346 million bid from Tucson-based Ventana Medical Systems Inc. Cytyc's new offer, up from its Sept. 17 offering of $377 million, came two days after Ventana said it had paid about $47.4 million to ...
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ZURICH/GENEVA  - Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG dug in for a takeover battle for Ventana Medical Systems Inc. on Tuesday as the U.S. company's shares traded above Roche's $3 billion hostile offer price.
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German drug firm Schwarz Pharma is being bought in a 4.4bn euros deal, the third industry tie-up in recent days.
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Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG  said on Tuesday it still hoped its $3 billion hostile bid for Ventana Medical Systems Inc.  could turn friendly but declined to say whether it would sweeten the deal.