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		<title><![CDATA[No More Lonely Planets: BBC Blocked From M&A]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ BBC Worldwide, the BBC&#8217;s profit-making commercial wing, is being barred from doing any mergers or acquisitions unless in &#8220;exceptional circumstances&#8221;, after its £89 million acquisition of three quarters of travel publisher Lonely Planet ruffled commercial rivals&#8217; feathers.Concluding an 18-month review in to BBCWW, the regulating BBC Trust says it...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:16:01 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[IAC's Mindspark Changes CEOs; Fisher Takes Corporate M&A Lead]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Joey Levin moves from corporate M&A and finance to CEO of Mindspark Interactive Network, the IAC collection of &#8220;fun web products&#8221; like Zwinky, succeeding John Park, who wants a more entrepreneurial life after a decade with IAC (NSDQ: IACI). Levin was SVP for M&A and finance. On the M&A...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:05:50 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[PolyOne Inc. Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Frank Mitsch - BB&T Capital Markets.  Frank Mitsch - BB&T Capital Markets  I wanted to ask about the shelf. I think you said Bob that the three areas that you would look to use it would be M&A,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:03:13 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Global Stocks, Oil Rise Ahead of Fed Policy Verdict]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Natsuko WakiLONDON (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - World stocks rose from the previous day's four-week low on Wednesday while the dollar slipped ahead of a policy decision by the Federal Reserve, expected to affirm its commitment to ultra-low interest rates.A survey showed the euro zone's dominant service sector expanded for the second...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:15:23 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[National Oilwell Varco Inc. Q3 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Marshall Adkins - Raymond James. Marshall Adkins - Raymond James I am going to leave it up to the next five guys to ask you about your backlog, ten different ways. I want to hear about your M&A stuff. It...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:07:12 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Industry Moves: Yahoo Hires GE Exec As New M&A Head]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has hired former General Electric (NYSE: GE) executive Andrew Siegel as its new head of mergers and acquisitions. Siegel had been at General Electric sine January 2005, according to his LinkedIn profile, serving as a general manager of corporate business development at the conglomerate and later...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:50:31 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Reality Check: How Wall Street Sees Korn/Ferry]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Research analyst Mark Marcon evaluates Korn/Ferry under Gary Burnison?s leadership.   Is the Whitehead Mann Acquisition Likely to Succeed?    I think [CEO Gary] Burnison&#8217;s sense is even if the  worst isn&#8217;t completely over, the worst of the worst has probably  passed and the longer-term...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[@Variety Ent/Tech Summit: More 'Cheap' M&A Deals By Big Media Companies On The Horizon]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Online ad spending and M&A forecasts are a dime-a-dozen &#8211; but that hasn&#8217;t stopped investment research firms like Soleil-Media Metrics from continuing to make them. Laura Martin, the firm&#8217;s managing director, told Variety Tech/Ent Summit attendees that she&#8217;s seeing signs &#8211; particularly in the advertising industry &#8211; that the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:55:10 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Tech M&A Blip Belies a Long Term Problem]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across this story about tech M&A with a pointer to data from Thomson Reuters about tech industry M&A activity. As I look at the numbers, and the graphs that fall out, there's a very interesting pattern that brings into question the uptick in activity that seems to be...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:04:37 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Roy Behren and Michael Shannon: How to Make Money from Mergers]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Merger Fund's managers share their views on the  recent surge in corporate takeovers, and how you can profit from it.    	  Professionals use the fairly conservative strategy of merger  arbitrage &#8212; buying the stock of the firm about to be acquired and ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[M&A Volume Still Low in W3; Mobile and Education Picking Up Slack]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Earlier we talked about future deals coming in our sector. Now a look back: M&A pace in the media/info sector picked up during third quarter of this year, compared to the first two quarters, according to data compiled by boutique bank The Jordan, Edmiston Group. A total of 168...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:05:05 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[PepsiCoâ€™s Big Steal: The Middle Man at a $1 Billion Discount]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2403-13241_23-346150.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Indra Nooyi needed to make PepsiCo more nimble by buying back its bottlers. The stock market crash gave the CEO the perfect moment to make her move â€” and save $1 billion.        PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi    PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[M&A Activity To Boost Profits Of Some Financial Firms; Goldman Sachs Lags Morgan Stanley]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When market conditions steam ahead after a period of declines, it is common for activity in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) to soar. And so it is this time round, too.    There's somewhat of a cash bubble going on right now: cash flow at U.S. corporations rose to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:09:38 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Playing The M&A Boom With Mutual Funds]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1173423]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Specialized mutual funds that invest in mergers and acquisitions have provided slow and steady returns in recent years, protecting investors from painful market corrections. With takeover activity reviving after deals waned during the credit crunch, these so-called merger-arbitrage funds are finding more opportunities and may be poised for better days. ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Nokia Opens Up Maps To Developers; Adjusts M&A Strategy And Addresses U.S. Market Concerns]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ On the final day of Nokia&#8217;s own Nokia (NYSE: NOK) World event in Stuttgart, Germany, the handset maker announced it was making its maps available to developers so that they could integrate directions into their applications and mobile internet services. Nokia executives also answered journalists&#8217; questions about the company&#8217;s...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[eBay to Sell Most of Skype Stake -- How Unsurprising]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here's an old truism in business: the big majority of mergers and acquisitions never deliver the value they promised. That's not anecdotal, but the finding of one study after another, usually indicating that upwards of three-quarters of M&A activity doesn't deliver to shareholders. So the fact that eBay has announced...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:21:29 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[EMC Touts M&A Skill Set]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you wonder why companies are so desperate to make acquisitions, especially when everyone knows the rate of successful mergers is pretty low.    This summer's cat fight between EMC and NetApp over Data Domain is a case in point although plenty of rationalizations were offered. EMC's Chuck...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:00:41 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Industry Moves: Gamestop Appoints Petrovic as Digital Head; Big M&A Budget and Mandate]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Gamestop, the offline games retail giant, is finally moving into digital in a much bigger way: just last week it announced the launch of an online casual games store, and now, it has appointed Chris Petrovic, former head of mobile at Playboy (NYSE: PLA), as its new GM of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:36:47 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bankrate Inc. Q2 2009 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions We will take our first question from Youssef Squali with Jefferies. Youssef Squali - Jefferies Thank you very much and Tom, congrats on the deal; a couple of quick ones. First on the deposit side, can you talk a little bit more about pricing, the...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Merger and Acquisition Activity To Pick Up As Lockheed Moves First?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last major down turn in defense spending during the Clinton Administration there was a severe contraction in the number of firms doing defense work.  Rather then companies going under as they had in past down periods many merged with others.  This was actually encouraged by the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:51:59 -0700</pubDate>
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