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- News Corp purchases Telecom Italia's equity.(Italy)(Brief Article)
- News Corporation of Rupert Murdoch has purchased 19.9 percent equity of Telecom Italia's in Ski Italia. News Corp. now completely controls the Italian company, which is a pay-television provider. The company spent nearly $164.7 million to buy the stake, which Telecom Italia sold to...
- Research articles 2004-11-01
- BNET Daily Dispatch: Take-Two, AT&T, Barnes & Noble, and Retail Theft
- The SEC opened an investigation yesterday into Take-Two Interactive Software, maker of the "Grand Theft Auto" video game series, over its past stock-option grants practices. In February, Take-Two's CEO pled guilty to criminal charges over backdating options, and became the first ex-CEO to do so. Take-Two said reviews of its...
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
- Evening Standard, London, Business Briefs Column.
- Evening Standard, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 11--BIDDERS CLOSE ANGLO-ITALIAN DIRECTORIES DEAL: Europe's largest venture capital buyout was completed today as three British bidders allied to an Italian partner shelled out euro5.65 billion (UKpound 3.99 billion) for Telecom Italia's majority...
- Research articles 2003-06-11
- Good News in Italy.
- Apr 03, 2003 (The Mercury - ABIX via COMTEX) News Corporation's $A1.6bn acquisition of Italian pay television operator Telepiu has been approved. Shares in the global media group increased $A0.36 to $A11.39 on the Australian sharemarket on 3 April 2003, with its preferred scrip...
- Research articles 2003-04-04
- Lehman runs its first European equity-linked bond of 2002.
- Byline: Shanny Basar Lehman Brothers was a bookrunner on a European equity-linked issue for the first time this year as the US bank sold a [euro]350m ($343m) exchangeable bond for Olivetti, the holding company that controls Telecom Italia.Lehman has close links with the Italian...
- Research articles 2002-07-30
- Pirelli shuffles property hand ahead of real estate IPO.
- Byline: Ben Hoyle Pirelli & C Real Estate, the property arm of the tyres-to-telecoms conglomerate, has paved the way to a late summer flotation with a merger that centralises property assets from across the Pirelli group. A portion of the property portfolio held by...
- Research articles 2002-05-29
- VIVENDI SET TO GAIN 100% CONTROL OF STREAM.
- Vivendi Universal is set to gain 100% control of the Italian pay-television platform, Stream, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, it was announced on February 13. News Corporation is due to buy the 50% stake owned by Telecom Italia, its partner in the joint...
- Research articles 2002-02-21
- Utilities deals boost Italy and Spain.
- On the surface, Spanish and Italian advisers enjoyed contrasting fortunes in 2001. In the absence of any significant telecoms or banking deals, Spain suffered along with the rest of Europe from the M&A downturn. Meanwhile, Italy boasted two of the Continent's most significant...
- Research articles 2002-01-07
- News pay-TV deal gets Messier.
- Dec 19, 2001 The Australian Financial Review ABIX via COMTEX -- Media giants, News Corporation and Vivendi, are negotiating an Italian pay-television takeover deal. It is not clear, however, which group will shoulder the burden of a $US2 billion loss incurred by the joint...
- Research articles 2001-12-18
- And the winner is...(acquisition and mergers)
- Deal of the year has to go to Olivetti's $34bn takeover of Telecom Italia but there were some interesting runners-up. Peter Shearlock reviews the M&A deals of 1999 New records for the volume of international M&A activity tell only part of the story of...
- Research articles 1999-12-01
- The daring bids of May.(European corporate bids)
- The year 1999 is promising to be a year of mergers and acquisitions for Europe's business sector. Easily topping the list is Italian conglomerate Olivetti's $65 billion bid for Telecom Italia while $35 billion is involved in the possible merger between French corporations BNP, Societe Generale and Paribas. The hostile...
- Research articles 1999-05-01
- DEUTSCHE TELEKOM: Deutsche Telekom and Telecom Italia -- a merger of equals?
- M2 PRESSWIRE-26 April 1999-DEUTSCHE TELEKOM: Deutsche Telekom and Telecom Italia -- a merger of equals? C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:220499 On 22nd April, 1999, Telecom Italia and Deutsche Telekom announced an intention to merge their companies, forming the largest telecommunications company...
- Research articles 1999-04-26
- As The Wheel Turns
- In the continuing saga of Telecom Italia [TI], the European Commission EC Friday raised no objections to Olivetti's proposed acquisition of Italy's incumbent telco and gave DeTeMobil, a wholly owned subsidiary of Germany's Deutsche Telekom [DT], the go-ahead to proceed with its planned acquisition of Austrian cellular operator max.mobil. ...
- Research articles 1999-04-26
- RCS Editori Enters Stream Consortium
- Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Ltd. [NWS] reportedly is trying to persuade RCS Editori SpA to take a 15 percent-to-20 percent stake in the Italian satellite and cable TV consortium Stream. Reports from Italy suggest News Corp. unit News Corp. Europe is on the verge of acquiring an 80 percent...
- Research articles 1999-01-15
- Structured hedging in Asia
- This is the fourth in a series of articles by UBS in which we discuss specific risk management tools used by corporations investing in North America, Europe, Southeast Asia, Australia, and Japan. In this series we are providing up-to-date intelligence on the markets, outlining alternative strategies using derivative products, and...
- Research articles 1997-12-01
- Chile: The prospects for Entel.
- Chilean telecoms Entel is going through a decisive stage, as it expects Olivetti to decide the future of Telecom Italia investments in Latin America, while on the other hand there is the cash injection of Luksic to develop the company. Stet (Tel ...
- Research articles 1999-06-24
- Brazil: Telecom Italia schedules US$1.5bil investments.
- Telecom Italia announced it will invest US$1.5bil in 2000 to develop business of its subsidiaries in Brazil. Chairman Mr. Roberto Colaninno said the sum was earmarked for industrial related investments, and does not include possible mergers & Telecom Italia announced it will...
- Research articles 1999-11-17
- Chile: The prospects for Entel.
- Chilean telecoms Entel is going through a decisive stage, as it expects Olivetti to decide the future of Telecom Italia investments in Latin America, while on the other hand there is the cash injection of Luksic to develop the company. Stet (Tel ...
- Research articles 1999-06-28
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- Brazil is likely to approve investment in Telecom Italia.(BRAZIL)
- <TX Shares of Telecom Italia and Pirelli increased amidst expectations that BrazilEs telecommunications watchdog Anatel will allow new investors to acquire a dominant stake in the Italy based telecom group. Some Italian investors as well as Spainbased Telefonica had agreed to...
- Research articles 2007-09-01
- Brazilian regulator mulls intervention of Brasil Telecom.(Opportunity International to sell its shares in Brasil Telecom S.A. to Telecom Italia)(Brief Article)
- Anatel is deliberating on whether it should intervene for the incumbent operator in the event that the Brazilian courts maintain the position to suspend the contract agreed to between the investment bank of Daniel Dantas, Opportunity, and Telecom Italia. Opportunity and Telecom Italia have...
- Research articles 2005-07-01
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