Freescale Considers Rival Bids
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Two private equity groups are now dueling to take over Freescale Semiconductor for more than $16 billion, people involved said.
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German stock market operator Deutsche Boerse is offering to manage its derivatives business Eurex from London as a sweetener to convince the London Stock Exchange of the advantages of a merger, according to a report in the Financial Times (FT).
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U.S. software firms SunGard Data Systems   and Fiserv Inc FISV.O top the list of suitors expected to   submit bids for UK software company Misys by a deadline set for   later this week, sources close to the matter said on Monday.
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The London Stock Exchange faces a likely takeover war after Euronext joined the battle for the 200-year-old British institution with a takeover approach pitting it against Germany's Deutsche Boerse.
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AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Google and Chevron are among the applicants for next month's 700MHz spectrum auction.
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The firm that owns the Philadelphia Inquirer says it is interested in mounting a rival bid for the Dow Jones.
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Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), the owner of the Dubai stock exchange, is mulling a rival bid to Nasdaq's  agreed $3.7 billion takeover of Nordic markets owner OMX , the Sunday Times reported.
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Chip maker Freescale Semiconductor   Inc. FSL.N said on Friday it agreed to be bought for $17.6   billion, or $40 a share in cash, by a private equity consortium   led by Blackstone Group, in what could be the biggest leveraged   buyout of a technology company.
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A bidding war for the London Stock Exchange (LSE) looked increasingly likely after Euronext said it had approached the group about a possible counterbid to Deutsche Boerse's 2.0-billion-euro offer.
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Freescale, Motorola&#39;s semiconductor subsidiary until July of this year, announced first details about its dual-core core strategy for the e600 PowerPC platform.
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An Internet entrepreneur and a Wall Street group have joined a list of potential rivals to News Corp.'s $5 billion bid for Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones &amp; Co., an adviser to the Dow Jones employee union said yesterday.
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The Nasdaq says it may work with a group planning a rival  trading platform if its London Stock Exchange bid fails.
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PC users might look at competitors after dealing with patches for patches.
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In a move regulators hailed as a breakthrough for freer competition, the software giant will share technical information with its rivals on terms it had resisted.
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The London Stock Exchange (LSE) is facing a possible bidding war after receiving its second takeover approach in a week. Paris-based rival Euronext made an approach just a week after the LSE said it had knocked
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There is intense competition among the world&#39;s stock exchange markets to attract companies to list with them, as exchanges make money by charging fees on listed firms.
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Software firm iSoft, which is being probed for alleged accounting irregularities, is reportedly a bid target.