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 New York |
Time Warner rejects Fox takeover bid| US media giant Time Warner has rejected an initial takeover approach from rival 21st Century Fox estimated at $80bn | |
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| May.28 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Apple agrees to $3bn Beats deal Apple has confirmed it will buy headphone maker and music-streaming service provider Beats Electronics
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| May.18 |
Dallas |
AT&T agreed to buy DirecTV for $48.5 billion AT&T Inc. agreed to buy satellite TV provider for $95 per share to give telecommunications company a larger base of video subscribers
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| Apr.25 |
Microsoft |
 Microsoft and Nokia complete mobile phone unit deal  Microsoft has completed its purchase of Nokia's mobile phone business for 5.44bn euros ($7.5bn; £4.5bn)
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| Mar.25 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Facebook buys virtual reality firm Facebook has announced it will buy Oculus VR, a Californian company which specialises in virtual reality products, for around $2bn
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| Mar.10 |
 Ireland |
World's largest banana firm created Irish fruit firm Fyffes and US rival Chiquita are to merge to create the world's largest banana company, worth about $1bn
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| Feb.19 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Facebook to buy WhatsApp for $19bn Facebook has bought messaging app in a deal worth a total of $19bn in cash and shares. WhatsApp has over 450 million monthly users
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| Feb.18 |
 France |
Peugeot signs rescue deal with China's Dongfeng Motor Struggling French carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroen has sealed a long-awaited rescue deal that will see its founding family cede control of the c...
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| Feb.13 |
Philadelphia |
Comcast buys Time Warner Cable Comcast has confirmed a deal to acquire Time Warner Cable for about $45bn, creating a company that could control 3/4 of the US cable industry
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| Feb.2 |
 Germany |
Porsche faces 1.8bn euros lawsuit Porsche's chairman Wolfgang Porsche and board member Ferdinand Piech are being sued by seven hedge funds over its failed takeover for Volksw...
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| Jan.29 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Google sells Motorola unit to Lenovo
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| Jan.13 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Google to buy Nest Labs for $3.2bn
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Illinois |
Japan's Suntory buys Jim Beam drinks group in $16bn deal
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Germany |
VW eyes $7bn N America investment
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| Dec.16 |
Boston |
Google buys military robot-maker
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| Dec.9 |
USA |
American Airlines and US Airways merger finalised
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| Nov.12 |
USA |
American Airlines and US Airways settle merger suit
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| Nov.4 |
Canada |
Blackberry abandons sell-off plan
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| Sep.23 |
Canada |
Blackberry agrees possible sale
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| Sep.2 |
Microsoft |
Microsoft to buy Nokia phones unit
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Vodafone sells stake to Verizon Vodafone has sold its 45% stake in Verizon Wireless to telecoms group Verizon Communications in one of the biggest deals in corporate history
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| Sep.1 |
USA |
Vodafone's Verizon talks 'advanced'
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| Aug.13 |
Washington |
US moves to block airlines merger
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| Aug.12 |
Canada |
Blackberry to explore sale option
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| Jul.28 |
France |
Merger makes world's biggest ad firm
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| Jul.1 |
New York |
Piano maker Steinway sold for $438m
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| May.30 |
China |
China to buy US pork firm for $4.7bn
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| May.20 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Tumblr 'will boost Yahoo revenue'
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| May.19 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Yahoo 'to buy Tumblr for $1.1bn'
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| Feb.14 |
Pittsburgh |
Warren Buffett in $28bn Heinz deal Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway company and private equity firm 3G have agreed to take over the food company, famous for its ketchup
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| Feb.13 |
USA |
American and US Airways 'to merge'
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| Feb.5 |
Texas |
Dell to be bought back by founder Michael Dell has said that he will buy back the world's number three PC manufacturer that he founded and that carries his name for $24
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| Oct.30 |
Southern California |
Disney buys firm behind Star Wars| Disney is buying Lucasfilm, the company behind the Star Wars films, from its chairman and founder George Lucas for $4.05bn | |
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| Feb.13 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Google Motorola bid wins approval |
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| May.10 |
Microsoft |
Microsoft buys phone firm Skype
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| Oct.24 |
Singapore |
Singapore bourse launches ASX bid
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| Nov.12 |
London |
British Airways, Iberia close to merger
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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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| 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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| 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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Austria |
Magna 'agrees to buy GM Europe'
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| Nov.3 |
Brazil |
Itaś and Unibanco to merge operations
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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
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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.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
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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.3 |
Southern California |
Blackstone buys Hilton for $26bn |
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| Oct.9 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Google buys YouTube for $1.65bn
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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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