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Price Waterhouse to buy stake in Origin
News Price Waterhouse is to buy an undisclosed stake in Philips Electronics' $1.5 billion global consulting and technology subsidiary Origin. Price Waterhouse and Origin formed a strategic alliance earlier this year to market and deliver third-party...
[October 10, 1997, 14:26]
Fujitsu to buy out Siemens' stake in joint PC business
News Fujitsu is to buy out Siemens' stake in the companies' joint venture, the PC manufacturer Fujitsu Siemens. Under the terms of the deal, announced on Tuesday, Fujitsu will pay €450m (£363m) for Siemens' 50 percent stake in the business.
[November 4, 2008, 14:17]
Microsoft may buy stake in Cable & Wireless
News While no agreement has been reached and terms of the deal haven't been hammered out, analysts say such a stake would fetch more than $4bn (£2.43bn). In February, Microsoft paid $500m for a 5 percent stake in NTL Ltd.another big cable operator in...
[May 12, 1999, 15:17]
News Burst: Energis to buy stake in Geo
News Telecoms operator Energis is set to take a stake in Geo Interactive Media, an Israel-based maker of audio and video streaming technology. Energis will pay £7.5m for a 5.6 percent stake, giving it exclusive European rights to the proprietary Emblaze...
[November 11, 1999, 9:47]
Google tipped to buy AOL stake
News Google may pay $1bn (£565m) for a 5 percent stake in America Online as part of an exclusive deal with Time Warner that would strengthen ties with the search giant instead of dumping Google for Microsoft.
[December 19, 2005, 9:20]
Intel to buy stake in Samsung chip business
News Intel already has a 10 per cent stake in Samsung's semiconductor plant in Austin, Texas but Samsung is allegedly asking for around $1bn to be pumped into its Korean factories. A source close to Samsung said that "Samsung needs to raise money in...
[February 20, 1998, 10:12]
Psion wins Symbian sale vote
News The result of Friday's vote doesn't mean that Nokia will definitely buy Psion's 31 percent stake in Symbian. Psion shareholders have approved the sale of the company's stake in Symbian to Nokia, despite the opposition of Phoenix Asset Management...
[March 12, 2004, 16:10]
Amazon.com misses estimates but sets profit roadmap
News On Monday, Amazon said it bought a stake in Audible in a deal where Audible will give the online retailer $30m over three years. One day later, Amazon bought a stake in Living.com in exchange for promotion.
[February 3, 2000, 9:43]
The Day Ahead: Value America board members throw cash into the pit
News Vulcan's stake is worth $29m less since the first trading day of 2000. Vulcan's stake today is worth $424m less than it was when Value America closed its first day of trading in April 1999 just above 55.
[May 11, 2000, 12:03]
Hutchison 3G tipped to buy mobile phone group
News Hutchison Whampoa holds a 65 percent stake in Hutchison 3G. Japanese mobile giant NTT DoCoMo owns a 20 percent stake of Hutchison 3G, while another 15 percent belongs to Dutch group KPN Mobile. Hutchison 3G, the only holder of a UK third-generation...
[December 17, 2001, 11:39]
Softbank sells Yahoo! shares
News The sale reduces Softbank's stake in Yahoo to 22.58 percent from the previous 23.18 percent, but it is still the biggest shareholder in the US company. It is the latest in a series of sales by Softbank, which owns a stake in ZDNet.
[June 1, 2000, 14:11]
Comdex: Buy.com takes on Amazon
News Softbank Holdings owns a stake in Buy.com. The new stores will run under the buy.com portal, officials for the company said. It's pretty clear that Amazon.com is our major competitor," said Buy.com CEO Scott Blum.
[November 17, 1998, 9:11]
Should Vodafone buy BT?
News We have made our interest in acquiring Vodafone's stake in Verizon Wireless clear," a Verizon source told the newspaper. On Sunday, that strategy came once again under scrutiny as UK newspaper The Business reported that Verizon had made an informal...
[March 13, 2006, 15:55]
A Year Ago: Adobe: "We are not for sale"
News Creative software giant Adobe has reacted sternly to the advances of the relative minnow Quark, which last week attempted to buy a stake in the firm. Stephens believes Quark's reasoning is quite straight forward: "Adobe issues a warning, its share...
[August 26, 1999, 7:00]
BT Buys Back Concert From MCI
News After WorldCom beat BT in the bid for MCI, BT said it intended to buy out its stake in Concert, but terms were not set until Wednesday. BT Thursday said it would pay about $1bn (£.6bn) to take back its 24.9 percent stake in Concert - its joint...
[August 14, 1998, 6:42]
Nokia thwarted in bid for Symbian majority
News Ericsson has now succeeded in persuading its fellow shareholders to use their pre-emption rights, with which they have each been able to buy up part of Psion's stake. Nokia's attempt to win a majority stake in Symbian has been blocked by three...
[July 7, 2004, 16:15]
Ericsson, STMicro form semiconductor joint venture
News According to a statement, ST will also buy out NXP's 20 percent stake in ST-NXP Wireless — itself a joint venture that only began operations at the start of this month. Frans van Houten, NXP's chief executive, said in the statement that the...
[August 20, 2008, 13:36]
Olivetti Group starts seeing black
News The PC operation Olivetti Computers Worldwide, of which the Olivetti Group still owns a 10 per cent stake, was sold off in January while Mannesmann will buy a 25 per cent stake of Olivetti's telecomms assets by December 15 for L1,100 billion.
[December 12, 1997, 11:52]
