Orange pulls out of bidding for AOL UK: source
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PARIS/LONDON  - France Telecom's FTE.PA Orange   unit has pulled out of the bidding for the UK Internet   connection business of Time Warner Inc.'s TWX.N AOL, an   industry source close to the matter said on Thursday.
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Lycos Europe has taken down their &quot;Make Love Not Spam&quot; campaign. After a short but popular campaign the company decided to stop their mission.
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Olivant Advisers dropped its bid for troubled British mortgage lender Northern Rock, saying its offer would not satisfy both the government and its own interests.
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Dutch computer services company PinkRoccade NV said Thursday it has broken off takeover talks with Ordina NV in favor of better bid from Getronics NV.
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Orange data users spend a day disconnected The Orange mobile phone network lost its data connectivity yesterday over most of the country.â¦
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After $536 million deal, Novell agrees to pull out of the European antitrust case
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Time Warner's  AOL Europe has hired Google  to provide advertiser-sponsored search results for its Internet service, replacing Yahoo's  Overture unit, the company said on Tuesday.
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By SOPHIE FREEMAN Daily Post Business Staff  THE merger between Carphone Warehouse and the UK arm of AOL was approved by the European Commission yesterday, after the regulatory body decided the move would not "significantly impede" effective competition in the sector.
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Cable firm NTL  has dropped plans to bid for ITV  after its 4.7-billion-pound ($9.3 billion) proposal was rejected by the British broadcaster and rival BSkyB  swooped to take a blocking stake in ITV.
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HBOS said it had decided against bidding for the British mortgage bank Abbey National, clearing the way for an agreed offer from Spain's Banco Santander Central Hispano (SCH).
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Investment group Olivant said Monday it had withdrawn from the running to offer a rescue package for troubled British bank Northern Rock, shortly before the deadline expired for bids to be presented.
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And good luck with the portal, guys... Orange UK disclosed the details of its Christmas range of handsets last week - giving the bum's rush to two of the biggest phone manufacturers.â¦
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Time Warner Inc. withdrew its bid  for Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on Monday, after  sources said a rival bidder group headlined by Japan's Sony  Corp. raised its offer to nearly $5 billion.
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Olivant Advisers dropped out of the bidding, saying it failed to come up with an offer that would satisfy both it and the government. The move increased the chances for Richard Bransonâs Virgin Group.
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Three senior executives are leaving AOL following a recent shake-up that brought in a veteran NBC executive as the online company's new chief executive, two people familiar with the matter said Friday.
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ABC has pulled its latest contract renewal offer with the Bowl Championship Series, a move that could result in the Orange, Sugar and Fiesta bowls moving to another network starting in 2006.
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EBay says it is ending its ad pullout from Google's U.S. AdWords network.