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		<title><![CDATA[Informa In Talks To Buy Springer Science And Business Media]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ B2B magazine and data publisher Informa is in preliminary talks to buy German academic publisher Springer Science + Business Media, majority owned by European PE houses Cinven and Candover. As it no doubt often has to point out, Springer is not part of German newspaper and mag publisher Axel...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:43:13 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Jason Goldberg Leaving Xing After A Year; New Startup & Investments]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Jason Goldberg, the chief product officer of Xing, the European biz social network that Burda just bought a big stake in, is leaving the company with this deal, about 12 months after his social news startup Socialmedian was sold to the Germany-headquartered company. The Socialmedian sale price at that...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:40:48 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[GM to Present Opel Restructuring Plan]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Feliciano TiseraZARAGOZA (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=ReutersUK">Reuters UK</a>) - U.S. carmaker General Motors GM will present a new viability plan for Opel in mid-December as it aims to reduce capacity across Europe by about 20 percent, a top executive said on Thursday.GM this month reversed a decision to sell a majority stake in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:45:35 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Mag Publisher Burda Buying A Quarter Of Xing; $287 Million Valuation]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ German mag publisher Burda Media is buying a 25.1 percent stake in the business-focused social networking site Xing.com for a total of ?48.29 million (£42.7 million, $71.9 million), making it Xing&#8217;s biggest single shareholder.Burda is making the deal through its Burda Digital division, buying 1.32 million shares priced ?36.50....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:23:40 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[GM Still Wants State Aid For Opel]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Christiaan Hetzner and Angelika GruberFRANKFURT (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=ReutersUK">Reuters UK</a>) - General Motors GM reaffirmed on Friday it wants state aid to help overhaul European arm Opel after a newspaper quoted GM's chairman as saying the U.S. carmaker will not ask German taxpayers for help.The topic is politically sensitive since GM this...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:15:33 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Liberty Global Pays $3 Bln For Unitymedia]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Nicola Leske and Philipp HalstrickFRANKFURT (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=ReutersUK">Reuters UK</a>) - Liberty Global LBTYA, the international cable operator controlled by John Malone, has agreed to buy Unitymedia from a private equity group for $3 billion (1.8 billion pounds) in its first German acquisition.The sale of Germany's second-biggest cable network by a shareholder...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:15:38 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[GM Still Wants State Aid For Opel Restructuring]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Christiaan Hetzner and Angelika GruberFRANKFURT (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=ReutersUK">Reuters UK</a>) - General Motors GM reaffirmed on Friday it wants state aid to help overhaul European arm Opel after a newspaper quoted GM's chairman as saying the U.S. carmaker will not ask German taxpayers for help.The topic is politically sensitive since GM this...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:15:33 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[GM CEO Starts Opel Charm Tour at HQ]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Christiaan HetznerFRANKFURT (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=ReutersUK">Reuters UK</a>) - General Motors CEO Fritz Henderson began his bid to win Germany over to his decision to keep the Opel unit, with government cash for its restructuring, while some said it wasn't budgeting nearly enough for the job.Berlin, which had brokered a deal for Canada's...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:17:33 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Yahoo Lands Another Mobile Search Distribution Deal?This Time In Germany]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) continues to push ahead with mobile search distribution deals, despite its search agreement with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT). The latest example: The company has displaced Google to become the default search provider for German mobile operator O2 Germany; O2 will also integrate Yahoo properties into its mobile...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Biogen-Idec's Tysabri Problems May Be Fault of European Doctors]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As mentioned in my last BNET Pharma posting, Biogen Idec's key multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri had been linked to 23 worldwide cases of a potentially deadly brain infection called progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, or PML -- with most confirmed cases centered in Europe, in particular Germany. Could there be a link...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:47:40 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Germany seeks to soothe Opel fears]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Germany's government has dismissed fears that General Motors' sale of its Opel business may have to be halted or delayed because of European Commission concerns about the proposed deal.Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, economy minister, said the plan for Opel to be sold to Magna International, a Canadian car parts supplier,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:23:39 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Comparison Shopper Become.com Acquires German E-commerce Firm Pangora]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Become.com, one of the few remaining indie comparison search and shopping engines, has acquired Pangora GmbH, a German e-commerce technology firm. Financial terms were not disclosed, though the companies expect the transaction to close by the end of the month. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Become.com has an office in London, but...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Unitymedia poised for partial listing]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Germany's second-largest cable television company is poised for a partial flotation early next year, bankers have said.Unitymedia "would be ready to go in a few weeks" once its private equity owners, BC Partners and Apollo, judged the time right, a media banker said. It would be the first big...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[TheFeedRoom Acquired By KIT Digital For Mere $10 Million in Stock; After $61 Million Funding]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ TheFeedRoom, the grandaddy of online video and streaming services companies, has been acquired by international video tech provider KIT Digital, for about $10 million, all in stock. FeedRoom has been around since 1999, and has raised at least $61 million since launching. Also, KIT is announcing another acquisition: German...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:10:23 -0700</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The pro-business credentials of Germany's incoming coalition government gave a modest boost to the country's equity markets yesterday, with investors quick to judge that some of Europe's biggest power generation companies would be among the corporate winners from Sunday's general election.Shares in Eon and RWE, the utility companies, led...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[How good is your German?    If you'd like to earn a free college degree, Germany is eager to help. Tuition at German universities isÃ‚Â routinely a freebie and remarkably Germans are happy to extend this deal toÃ‚Â foreigners including Americans.    Ã‚Â And it gets better than that....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:52:11 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Reunification legacy erodes appetite for EU]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Unlike last November's US presidential election, or last month's parliamentary elections in Japan, next Sunday's German contest will not transform the nation's political landscape. Angela Merkel seems certain to win a second term as chancellor. The main doubt is whether her centre-right Christian Democrats will extend their "grand coalition"...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The president of a leading European business group has condemned Germany's plan to sweeten the sale of Opel, General Motors' European arm, to a Canadian-led consortium with an offer of billions of euros in subsidies."I'm totally against the decision that the federal German government has taken," JÃ¼rgen Thumann, head...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[ First Germany, now France. Nicolas Sarkozy&#8217;s government has written to a US court urging it to stop a $125 million settlement between Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and US book publishers, warning that Google will have unfair control over European works and a &#8220;monopoly on digitising European orphan works without permission&#8221;...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Germany Opposes Google's Books Settlement In US Court Filing]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Germany has declared itself an enemy of Google&#8217;s ambitious and controversial plans to digitise millions of out-of-print books, fearing the creation of an unfavourable &#8220;new copyright regime&#8221;. In a filing to a New York court on Tuesday, Angela Merkel&#8217;s administration urged US authorities not to green light Google&#8217;s settlement...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:53:02 -0700</pubDate>
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