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Apple sets sights on Lala.com

Apple is near completion of the purchase of the music streaming and retailing site Lala.com.

 

Comcast to buy controlling stake in NBC Universal

Comcast to buy controlling stake in NBC Universal

Comcast Corp. announced Thursday it plans to buy a majority stake in NBC Universal for $13.75 billion, giving the nation's largest cable TV operator control of the Peacock network, an array of cable channels and a major movie studio....

 

Hewlett-Packard to Acquire 3Com

Hewlett-Packard to Acquire 3Com

The $2.7 billion deal, valued at $7.90 a share, has already been approved by directors of both companies.

 

Exclusive: Google Has Acquired Gizmo5

Last month Skype was in talks to acquire VoIP startup Gizmo5. It was a perfect backup plan in case all that IP litigation didn't work out.

 

Buffett to buy Burlington Northern in $34 billion deal

Buffett to buy Burlington Northern in $34 billion deal

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc has struck a deal to buy the rest of railroad Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp for $26 billion, Buffett's biggest acquisition ever.

 

Photobucket To Be Valued At $60 Million In Sale To Ontela

Lots more details are coming in on the Photobucket fire sale by MySpace/News Corp. The sale is all but complete, say new sources.

 

US and Canada regulators approve Pfizer-Wyeth deal (AP)

Pfizer Inc.'s $68 billion purchase of Wyeth will close Thursday after antitrust regulators in the U.S. and Canada cleared the deal, which will make Pfizer the world's largest drugmaker by revenue.

 

Bloomberg to acquire BusinessWeek

Bloomberg to acquire BusinessWeek

Bloomberg is buying BusinessWeek in a deal that brings together a financial news service specializing in rapid-fire updates with a print publication struggling to adapt to the Internet.

 

Cisco to Purchase Starent for $2.9 Billion

Cisco to Purchase Starent for $2.9 Billion

Networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. agreed to acquire Starent Networks, a maker of infrastructure equipment used by wireless carriers, for about $2.9 billion. The technology bellwether—which has been hurt by a pullback in customer ...

 

GM Completes Hummer Sale Pact

GM Completes Hummer Sale Pact

GM completed an agreement to sell Hummer to China's Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery.

 

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