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| Jan.26 |
 Netherlands |
  $74 million deal saves Saab General Motor's Swedish brand has been saved from certain death thanks to a last-minute deal with Dutch exotic car builder Spyker
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| Dec.20 |
Netherlands |
  New offer made for Saab Spyker, a maker of exotic cars, said that it had made a new offer to General Motors for the Swedish car brand
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| Dec.13 |
 England |
Cadbury and Hershey in bid talks Cadbury and Hershey are in talks with a view to the Kraft Foods making a bid for the Birmingham based confectioner
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| Dec.3 |
 Japan |
 Peugeot, Mitsubishi eye capital tie-up PSA Peugeot Citroėn is in talks with Mitsubishi Motors over a broad-based alliance which may include a capital tie-up
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| Nov.12 |
 London |
 British Airways, Iberia close to merger BA and Iberia announced that they have agreed the basis for a proposed merger between the airlines which is expected to be completed in late 2010
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| Nov.3 |
Detroit |
 General Motors cancels Opel sale| GM has cancelled plans to sell a majority stake in its European car business Opel, including its UK brand Vauxhall | |
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| Sep.7 |
United Kingdom |
T-Mobile UK and Orange to merge A business with sales of 9.4bn euros (£8.2bn; $13.5bn) is becoming the UK's biggest mobile phone firm with 28.4 million customers
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| Sep.6 |
United Kingdom |
Kraft in £10.2bn move for Cadbury US food giant Kraft has proposed buying confectionary giant Cadbury in a $16.7bn move
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| Aug.31 |
 Southern California |
Disney to buy Marvel in $4bn deal Entertainment giant Walt Disney is to buy Marvel Entertainment (Spider-Man and the X-Men) in a shares and cash deal valued at $4bn
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| Aug.19 |
 USA |
MySpace to acquire music service MySpace will acquire the popular music discovery service iLike that allows users listen to and share music across social networks
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| Jul.23 |
 Germany |
VW prepares to take over Porsche| Europe's biggest carmaker, Volkswagen, plans to buy German sports car firm in stages while retaining the latter's independence | |
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| Jun.8 |
U.S. Supreme Court |
Chrysler's sale to Fiat delayed
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| May.29 |
Berlin |
Germany picks Magna to save Opel| Germany has agreed a deal with Canadian car parts maker, to take over Opel, part of the European wing of US carmaker GM | |
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Magna 'agrees to buy GM Europe' Canadian-Austrian car parts maker has reached an agreement in principle to rescue GM Europe, owner of Opel and Vauxhall
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| May.27 |
Berlin |
Opel talks break down
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| Nov.3 |
 Brazil |
Itaś and Unibanco to merge operations Itaś and Unibanco will merge their banking, credit, and insurance operations, creating the largest financial services group in the Southern ...
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| Sep.17 |
United Kingdom |
Barclays agrees $1.75B Lehman deal| British bank Barclays said it had reached a deal to purchase key units of U.S. investment bank, as global markets continued to worry | |
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| Sep.14 |
New York |
Barclays quits Lehman sale talks Barclays has pulled out of talks to buy most of troubled investment bank because it was unable to obtain guarantees
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| Aug.14 |
London |
BA seals alliance with American
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| Jul.13 |
Missouri |
Anheuser-Busch agrees to InBev sale
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San Francisco Bay Area |
Yahoo turns down another Microsoft offer
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| May.3 |
Microsoft |
Microsoft walks away from Yahoo Microsoft has dropped its 3-month-old bid to buy internet firm because the two sides cannot agree on an acceptable sale price
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| Mar.26 |
England |
Tata buys Jaguar in $2.3bn deal
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| Mar.16 |
New York |
JPMorgan to acquire Bear Stearns JPMorgan Chase has said it is to buy Wall Street's 5th-largest investment bank for $2 a share
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| Feb.1 |
Microsoft |
Microsoft wants to purchase Yahoo| Microsoft has offered to buy the search engine company for $44.6bn in cash and shares. The offer is 62% above Yahoo's closing share price | |
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| Jan.2 |
 Hong Kong |
 Singapore Airline bid hits trouble The bid to buy a 24% stake in China Eastern Airlines for US$923.8 million appeared in trouble after a major shareholder criticized the deal
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| Jul.31 |
New York |
Murdoch wins Dow Jones battle Media tycoon has won his battle to take over the American media giant, publisher of the Wall Street Journal
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| Jul.22 |
China |
China could buy stake in Barclays
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| Jul.20 |
New York |
DJ director quits to protest sale
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| Jul.17 |
New York |
Dow Jones CEO 'agrees' to deal
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| Jul.12 |
Australia |
Rio Tinto launches $38B bid for Alcan
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| Jul.3 |
Southern California |
Blackstone buys Hilton for $26bn
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| Feb.11 |
United Kingdom |
Vodafone buys Indian mobile firm
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| Jan.30 |
United Kingdom |
Indian firm wins race for Corus
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| Oct.9 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Google buys YouTube for $1.65bn  Google is buying video-sharing website for $1.65bn in shares. The companies will continue to operate independently
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| Jan.24 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Disney buys Pixar in $7.4bn deal
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| Dec.15 |
USA |
Sprint to Buy Nextel in $36 Billion Deal
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| Sep.3 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
HP buying Compaq for $25 billion
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| Jan.10 |
USA |
American Airlines buys TWA
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| Dec.14 |
Washington |
AOL, Time Warner merger approved
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| Jan.24 |
USA |
AOL planned to purchase Time Warner America Online plan is the biggest merger ever was greeted as a historic day for corporate America
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