Liberty Gets Rest of UGC for $3.5 Bln
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Cable mogul John Malone moved to  consolidate his holdings on Tuesday, announcing that Liberty  Media International agreed to buy the rest of cable provider  UnitedGlobalCom Inc. for about $3.5 billion.
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Shares in Manchester United Plc rose 3.1 percent after a newspaper report yesterday said the soccer club&#39;s two biggest investors may sell their stake to billionaire Malcolm Glazer for 310 pence ($5.
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Liberty Media is taking a bigger stake in Barry Diller's company.
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LIBERTY Media&#39;s move last week to grab up to 17.1 per cent of News Corporation voting stock has prompted the launch of a defensive shareholder rights plan.
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InfoWorld - The Business Software Alliance has collected a record settlement of nearly $3.5 million from an international media firm that was using&#160;unlicensed software, the trade group announced Tuesday.
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Nasdaq Stock Market Inc  said  on Friday it sold its remaining 5.3 million shares in London  Stock Exchange Group Plc  for 18 pounds a share.
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MCIÂ on Monday announced an approximately $3.5 billion charge against its third-quarter financial results to reflect a decrease in the value of the company's assets.
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United Breweries Limited has decided to enter into a partnership with Scottish &amp; Newcastle, S&amp;N. Under this agreement, S&amp;N will get 17.5% of UBL&#39;s stake through a preferential allotment for Rs 217 crore (Rs 2.17 billion), or Rs 575 per share.
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Dominion Resources  said on Monday that it would sell most of its gas and oil exploration and production operations to two different companies for about $6.5 billion as part of its plan to focus on its power business.
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A combination of National, Alamo, Thrifty and Dollar in a deal valued at more than $3 billion is being discussed.
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The Liberty Media Corporation, the entertainment and Internet retailing company controlled by the billionaire John C. Malone, purchased 14 million shares of IAC/InterActiveCorp, the company controlled by Barry Diller, for $339.5 million.
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Utility firm AWG has said it had agreed a consortium takeover worth 2.213 billion pounds (3.272 billion euros, 4.145 billion dollars) -- but has also received approaches from other bidders.
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French oilfield services group   Compagnie Generale de Geophysique (CGG) and Texas-based Veritas   DGC Inc. said on Tuesday that CGG agreed to buy Veritas in a   cash and stock deal worth about $3.1 billion.
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The South African casino operator Gold Reef Resorts agreed to be acquired by a group including Ethos Private Equity and Goldman Sachs for 34 rand a share, or about 9.85 billion rand ($1.37 billion). Gold Reef, which operates the Gold Reef City theme park and casino in Johannesburg and other casinos and hotels around the country, said after markets had closed that the deal implied an enterprise value of 11.6 billion rand. The company said Aug. 13 it was in exclusive talks with the buyout group, which also includes Gold Reef management and black investors, though Goldman Sachsâs involvement was not disclosed at the time. Goldman Sachs and Nedbank Corporate have agreed to provide financing for the deal.
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Englewood-based Liberty Media reported increased operating cash and higher revenue for the third quarter of 2004. Liberty (NYSE: L, LMC.
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Bond trader Cantor Fitzgerald is combining its electronic brokerage eSpeed , which has been a takeover target, with its BGC Partners inter-dealer broker into a new publicly listed company in a $1.3 billion deal.
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UnitedHealthcare Insurance Co., a branch of UnitedHealth Group, will pay $3.5 million to settle charges that it defrauded the Medicare program, the US Department of Justice announced Monday.