Naspers buys UK's Tradus for $1.9 bln
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Africa's top media group, Naspers Ltd , 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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BT Group confirmed this morning it is to buy the Californian telecoms group Infonet Services Corp for Â£965 million. The news followed reports which said that the UK telecoms
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Aeroflex Inc. , which makes microelectronics for the telecommunications, aerospace and defense markets, said on Friday it struck a deal to be bought by private equity firms General Atlantic and Francisco Partners for about $1 billion.
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Shares of Nastech Pharmaceutical Co. Inc. (NSTK.O: Quote, Profile, Research) soared 70 percent on Monday after the company said it had formed an alliance with Merck &amp; Co.
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British Telecom is buying U.S.-based Infonet Services in a deal that values the company at almost $1 Billion.
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Kidde moved a step closer yesterday to being bought by America&#39;s United Technologies, which increased its offer for the UK fire extinguisher maker to Â£1.39bn.
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Ionics Inc., a Watertown water treatment company with global operations, agreed to be purchased yesterday by General Electric Co. for $1.1 billion in cash.
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ARM Holdings, the British semi-conductor design company, said it has agreed to buy US technology group Artisan Components Inc. for 913 million dollars (743 million euros) in a cash and stock deal.
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Media group Emap has agreed to sell its trade magazine and exhibitions businesses for Â£1bn.
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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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The Blackstone Group agreed to buy the Tussauds Group, owner of the Madame Tussauds wax museums, for Â£1 billion ($1.9 billion) in cash.
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GlaxoSmithKline PLC said Friday it had acquired the privately held biotechnology company Domantis Ltd. for 230 million pounds ($454 million) in cash.
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A North American energy company which operates a major North Sea oil field is selling its British division for 2.1 billion (Â£1.14 billion), it was announced today.
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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.
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Electronic publisher ProQuest Co. (PQE.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Tuesday it would buy privately held Voyager Expanded Learning, a reading curriculum provider, for $360
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Cendant Corp. said Thursday it has agreed to acquire Gullivers Travel Associates and Octopus Travel Group Ltd. of Britain for about &#36;1.1 billion in cash.
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WPP Group PLC, the London-based advertising giant, said Monday it was paying US$1.309 billion (euro1.068 billion) - half in cash and half in WPP equity - for the entire share capital of US-based Grey Global.