Investcorp to buy Thomson Media for $350M
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NEW YORK -- Investcorp SA, a private investment firm, has inked a $350 million all-cash deal to buy 54 business publications put on the block by The Thomson Corp.
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The takeover of British media giant Reuters by Canadian rival Thomson Corp will conclude in the second quarter of 2008, the pair said in a statement on Monday.
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Teck Cominco, a mining company and metals producer, has agreed to buy Aur Resources for 4.1 billion Canadian dollars ($3.9 billion) in cash and stock.
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Goldcorp Inc., Canada&#39;s fourth-largest gold producer, has agreed to buy Wheaton River Minerals Ltd. for $1.8 billion in stock, giving Goldcorp its first assets outside of North America, Chief Executive Robert R. McEwen said.
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Intuit plans to buy the Digital Insight Corporation for $1.35 billion, a move that will expand it into online banking software and services.
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Paris-based Thomson (www.thomson.net) enters into a partnership with current investors Microsoft Corp. (www.microsoft.com) and Time Warner Inc.
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Goldcorp Inc., Canada&#39;s fourth- largest gold producer, has agreed to buy Wheaton River Minerals Ltd. for $1.8 billion in stock, giving Goldcorp its first assets outside of North America, Chief Executive Robert R. McEwen said.
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Canadian mining company Goldcorp Inc.  G.TO GG.N plans to buy competitor Wheaton River Minerals  Ltd WRM.TO WHT.A for $2.09 billion in stock, marking  further consolidation in the mining industry, the companies  said Sunday in a statement.
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The maker of cable for communications companies has agreed to buy the Andrew Corporation for about $2.6 billion to bolster sales to mobile phone and wireless Internet companies.
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TORONTO (CP) - Thomson Corp. will slow the pace of acquisitions in 2005, after racking up roughly $1.5 billion in acquisitions this year and completing its evolution from newspaper publisher to electronic information provider, its CEO said Tuesday.
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Business & money: Murdoch group acquires 14.6% stake in Premiere, five years after losing Â£1bn on the German pay-TV operator
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Canadian electronic publisher Thomson Corp  won conditional permission from antitrust regulators at the U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday to buy Reuters Group Plc , a deal that will create the world's leading provider of news and data for professional markets.
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Canadian electronic publisher Thomson Corp  won conditional permission from the European Commission on Tuesday to buy Reuters , a deal that will create the world's leading provider of news and data for professional markets.
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Intuit Inc.  said on Thursday  it will buy Digital Insight Corp.  for $1.35 billion, a  move that expands the maker of the popular TurboTax and Quicken  financial software into online banking services.
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Media company Cox Enterprises Inc. said Tuesday it will take cable operator Cox Communications Inc. private, agreeing to purchase the 38 percent stake in the company that it doesn&#39;t already own for $34.
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Morgan Stanley has agreed to buy a real estate investor, the Investa Property Group of Australia, for 4.7 billion Australian dollars ($3.9 billion) in cash. Including debt, the offer values Australiaâs biggest publicly traded owner of office buildings at 6.6 billion Australian dollars. The bid is subject to an independent expertâs report confirming that the offer is in the best interests of shareholders.
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Australia-based News Corp. has bought Telecom Italia SpA&#39;s 19.9 percent stake in satellite television company Sky Italia for euro88 million (US$108.