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M & A wrap: Swift takeover for Olympus unlikely
Olympus Corp should be the easiest of takeover targets: a profitable business with its share price in tatters, its management in utter disgrace and its balance sheet in need of fresh capital. But not...
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M & A wrap: “Chief Yahoo” resigns
Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang has quit the company he started in 1995, appeasing shareholders who had blasted the Internet pioneer for pursuing an ineffective personal vision and impeding investment...
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M & A wrap: Kodak files for bankruptcy
Eastman Kodak, which invented the hand-held camera and helped bring the world the first pictures from the moon, has filed for bankruptcy protection, capping a prolonged plunge for one of America’s...
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M & A wrap: Takeover talk swirls around BlackBerry maker
Takeover talk swirled around Research In Motion as investors and analysts pondered whether new Chief Executive Thorsten Heins had been appointed to lead a turnaround of the struggling phonemaker or...
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M & A wrap: NYSE-Deutsche Boerse deal faces tough vote
NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Boerse are unlikely to garner enough support from European Union commissioners to overturn a looming veto over their plan to create the world’s largest exchange, Bloomberg...
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M & A wrap: Roche goes hostile for gene firm Illumina
Roche is offering $5.7 billion in cash to buy U.S. gene sequencing company Illumina Inc in an unfriendly takeover bid that marks a major play by the Swiss drugmaker into the gene technology field. AMR...
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M & A wrap: Illumina unveils poison pill to stave off Roche
Gene sequencing company Illumina unveiled a “poison pill” defense strategy against a hostile bid from Swiss drugmaker Roche, saying it would trigger a rights agreement if any party bought 15 percent of...
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M & A wrap: Owners, insiders jockey ahead of LME sale
Market parties are jockeying ahead of a sale of the London Metal Exchange (LME), a deal that could radically alter the sway that banks and brokers hold over the world’s largest metals market....
View ArticleM & A wrap: Can Facebook live up to the hype?
As Facebook is expected to submit paperwork to regulators for its initial public offering, Reuters Social Media Editor, Anthony De Rosa, uncovers three problems standing in the way of Facebook’s future...
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M & A wrap: Glencore and Xstrata in mega merger talks
Xstrata and Glencore are in talks over an all-share merger that could create a combined group worth more than $80 billion, shaking up the industry with its biggest deal to date. Glencore, the world’s...
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