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Canary Wharf owner Songbird rejects revised $4.07 bn bid from QIA and Brookfield
05 Dec 2014
London's prestigious Canary Wharf owner Songbird Estates today rejected a sweetened £2.6 billion bid from Qatar Investment Authority and Brookfield Property Partners
GSK abandons sale of older drugs portfolio
05 Dec 2014
QIA - Brookfield Property raise bid for Songbird Estates to £2.6 bn
05 Dec 2014
Qatar Investment Authority and Brookfield Property Partners yesterday raised their bid for London's prestigious Canary Wharf owner Songbird Estates to £2.6 billion
Barnes & Noble to buy Microsoft's 17% stake in Nook e-reader unit
05 Dec 2014
The largest US bookstore chain, Barnes & Noble Inc operates Nook, one of the web's largest e-commerce sites, which features more than two million titles for its electronic reader, Nook Bookstore
Australian broadcaster Ten Network attracts several prospective buyers
04 Dec 2014
Beleaguered Australian broadcaster Ten Network Holdings yesterday confirmed that several parties have shown interest in taking control of the group
Telenor and TeliaSonera to merge Danish operations into equal JV
03 Dec 2014
The merged entity will have a combined mobile subscriber base of around 3.5 million, market share of approximately 40 per cent, revenues of more than DKK 9 billion ($1.5 bn) and significant synergy potential
US chipmaker Cypress in $4-bn merger deal with peer Spansion
02 Dec 2014
The merger of Cypress Semiconductor Corp and Spansion Inc, will create a leading global provider of microcontrollers and specialised memories for embedded systems
Warren Buffet’s Lubrizol to buy two units of Weatherford for $750 mn
02 Dec 2014
The acquisitions of these two businesses will give Lubrizol a more significant footprint in the $20-billion oilfield chemicals business
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