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MGM bid opens today; Reliance Entertainment may enter race
15 Jan 2010
The studio, known for such classics as The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind and the James Bond and Pink Panther series, made only one movie in 2009
Hershey prepares to bid for Cadbury: report
14 Jan 2010
US-based confectioner Hershey is planning to make a counter-bid to its larger rival Kraft’s $16.7-billion unsolicited takeover offer for Cadbury
M&A activity declines 34 per cent in 2009
14 Jan 2010
GTL Infra set to buy Aircel’s tower business for Rs8,500 crore
14 Jan 2010
The deal, which expected to be signed as early as today, will be in the range of Rs8,500 crore, which works out to an average of Rs48.5 lakh a tower
Symantec to acquire Gideon Technologies
13 Jan 2010
VMware to buy Yahoo’s Zimbra software division
13 Jan 2010
HCL Technologies to merge with HCL Technoparks
12 Jan 2010
Bharti to take 70 per cent stake in Bangladesh’s Warid Telecom
12 Jan 2010
Bharti plans to make $300 million fresh investment in the company, to take the overall investment to $1 billion, to cover new funding to cover capacity expansion, coverage and new products
China's Bright Foods bids $1.4 billion for CSR's sugar business
12 Jan 2010
Shanghai municipal government owned food producer Bright Food Group Co. is planning to acquire the sugar and renewable energy business of Australia’s CSR Ltd.
Heineken beats SABMiller to acquire Femsa's beer unit for $7.6 billion
11 Jan 2010
Heineken edged out London-based brewing giant SABMiller Plc in an auction to acquire the beer operations of the largest brewer in Latin America, in an all stock transaction valuing it at $7.6 billion
PE investments in India decline for second straight year to $4 billion
11 Jan 2010
Private Equity firms invested $1,392 million over 84 deals in India during Q4 2009, taking the annual investment numbers to $3,824 million over 232 deals
Santos to sell Gladstone LNG stake to fund growth projects
11 Jan 2010
According to analysts, the stake sale will relieve Santos from its tight liquidity position, and help the company finance the requirements at Gladstone and the Papua New Guinea LNG
No plan to merge BSNL and MTNL: Pitroda
09 Jan 2010
Sam Pitroda, IT advisor to the prime minister said on Friday that the government was not planning to merge BSNL and MTNL but efforts were on to sell stake in BSNL
No plan to merge BSNL and MTNL: Pitroda
09 Jan 2010
Sam Pitroda, IT advisor to the prime minister said on Friday that the government was not planning to merge BSNL and MTNL but efforts were on to sell stake in BSNL
No plan to merge BSNL and MTNL: Pitroda
09 Jan 2010
Sam Pitroda, IT advisor to the prime minister said on Friday that the government was not planning to merge BSNL and MTNL but efforts were on to sell stake in BSNL
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