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Electronic Arts to Buy PopCap Games for $750 Million
EA has moved to acquire PopCap Games, which includes the popular games Plants vs. Zombies, Bejeweled and Zuma. The workers at the studio and the intellectual property owned by the company will become...
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GE Capital Acquires Credit Agricole Commercial Finance UK
GE Capital has acquired Credit Agricole Commercial Finance UK – formerly known as Eurofactor UK Ltd. The accounts receivable financing business lent over £3 billion through invoice financing to UK...
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Glu Mobile Inc. Acquires Griptonite Games and Blammo Games
Glu Mobile Inc. has acquired Griptonite Games and Blammo Games to augment its offerings of social games for handheld devices such as smartphones and tablets. The company has 200 employees and is based...
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Google Announces Acquisition of Motorola, Attacks Microsoft and Apple
US markets bounced on the news on Monday 15th August 2011 that Google is to acquire Motorola Mobility. Larry Page, CEO of Google, outlined how the complete adoption of Google’s Android software across...
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Rakuten to Acquire Kobo for US $315 million
Rakuten has move into the eReader marketplace with the announcement that it will acquire the Canadian spin-out company, Kobo for $315 million in cash. The Toronto based headquarters, management team...
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Anderson Withdraw Bid for Books-A-Million
The Anderson family has withdrawn a non-binding bid for major book retailer Books-A-Million. The Andersons had been considering an offer for all outstanding publicly-held shares of the common stock of...
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Campbell Move into Chinese Sweet Biscuit Market
Campbell have entered into an agreement to acquire Kelsen Group A/S – a Danish company who have supplied butter cookies to the Chinese market for over twenty years. The primary sweet biscuit brands of...
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Pfizer Prices $4.5 Billion Debt Offering
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) has announced the pricing of a debt offering totalling $4.5 billion shortly before also announcing that an offer for AstraZeneca plc would represent “compelling shareholder...
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Pfizer Makes Final Cash and Shares Offer to AstraZeneca Shareholders
Pfizer have made a final offer to shareholders of AstraZeneca in a move which will proclude any further offers. Under the terms of the final proposal AstraZeneca shareholders would receive, for each...
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Electrolux to Acquire GE Appliances for $3.3 Billion
AB Electrolux is set to acquire the appliances business of General Electric for $3.3 billion in cash. GE Appliances is a manufacturer of kitchen and laundry products in the United States. Keith...
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