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Bell Canada's $51 billion sale hinges on bankers Bankers now find the ball back in their court as the proposed $51 billion buyout of Bell Canada won a key court decision late last week. Shares of Bell Canada's parent company jumped 7% on Monday after Canada's Supreme Court overturned a decision to block the deal, the largest leveraged-buyout ever Home > Rss Directory > Business > CNN |
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$52 Billion Deal for Bell Canada Private equity buyers apparently salvaged a record $52 billion deal for Bell Canada on Friday by postponing its closing date and canceling dividend payments. Home > Rss Directory > General > NY Time |
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$52 Billion Deal for Bell Canada Private equity buyers apparently salvaged a record $52 billion deal for Bell Canada on Friday by postponing its closing date and canceling dividend payments. Home > Rss Directory > Business > NY Time |
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A new CFO for Google at last Google has finally picked the replacement for retiring Chief Financial Officer George Reyes: Bell Canada's president of operations, Patrick Pichette.Pichette, who, like Reyes, will also sport the title of senior Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Bell Canada Sale Allowed to Go Ahead The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in favor of Bell Canada and its purchasers on Friday, allowing the largest leveraged buyout in history to proceed. Home > Rss Directory > General > NY Time |
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Bell Canada Sale Allowed to Go Ahead The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in favor of Bell Canada and its purchasers on Friday, allowing the largest leveraged buyout in history to proceed. Home > Rss Directory > Business > NY Time |
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Bell Canada Sale Allowed to Go Ahead The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in favor of Bell Canada and its purchasers on Friday, allowing the largest leveraged buyout in history to proceed. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > NY Time |
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Bell Canada chokes BitTorrent traffic on someone else's ISP Rocky VII: The Throttling On March 14, Bell Canada began throttling peer-to-peer traffic on pipes it rents to third-party ISPs. And it neglected to tell the third-party ISPs.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Update: HP buys EDS for $13.9 billion HP said Tuesday morning that it has signed a deal to acquire IT outsourcer EDS for $13.9 billion, or $25 per share.The deal has been approved by both companies' boards of directors, and is expected to close in t Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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EU Clears Way for Acer-Packard Bell Deal The European Commission gave the go-ahead for the takeover of Dutch computer maker Packard Bell by Acer of Taiwan, after a one-month examination of the deal. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > NY Time |
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Icahn to Yahoo: Sell to Microsoft for $49.5 billion Carl Icahn and Yahoo's board traded barbs once again on Friday as the billionaire investor increased his pressure on Yahoo to make a deal with Microsoft, demanding that the company put itself up for sale to Microsoft for a little more than $34 a share. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Update: HP in talks to buy EDS for up to $13 billion Hewlett-Packard has confirmed it is in talks to acquire IT services company Electronic Data Systems in a deal that would give it more competitive muscle against worldwide services market leader IBM.The price tag Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft says it offered $9 billion to Yahoo In a letter to employees on Friday, a Microsoft executive said the company had offered to buy Yahoo's search assets for $1 billion and invest $8 billion in the remaining company, before talks between the two ended. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Brocade to buy Foundry for $3 billion Storage networking company Brocade Communications Systems has agreed to acquire enterprise LAN vendor Foundry Networks for approximately $3 billion, the companies announced Monday.Brocade said the deal will make Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Update: Sun to acquire MySQL for $1 billion Sun Microsystems will pay $1 billion for Swedish software company MySQL, whose open source database is used for some of the most widely visited Web sites in the world.Sun said the deal will augment its position Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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House leaders plan hearing on Google-Yahoo deal Congressional leaders are planning to hold a hearing this summer on the competitive and privacy concerns of a search advertising deal announced last week between Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush (D Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Canada's Precision Drilling Trust Buys Grey Wolf For $2 Billion (AHN) (AHN) - Grey Wolf signed an agreement Monday that agreed to sell for $2 billion the Houston-based firm to Precision Drilling Trust, Canada's largest oilfield service provider. - Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:51:32 GMT Home > Rss Directory > Business > AllHeadline |
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Update: Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion Microsoft has offered to buy Yahoo for around $44.6 billion in cash and shares, to better compete with Google in the market for online services.CEO Steve Ballmer made the offer in a letter to Yahoo's board of di Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Update: Sprint and Clearwire seal $14.5 billion WiMax deal Sprint Nextel and Clearwire will form a joint venture worth $14.5 billion to deploy the first nationwide mobile WiMax network, they said Wednesday.The new company, which will be called Clearwire, is also backed Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft tops $60 billion in annual revenue Microsoft on Thursday announced it has topped $60 billion in yearly revenue for the first time in its history and posted a 25 percent year-over-year gain in net income for its fiscal year 2008.The company also p Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |