ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian regulators expect to make a decision on a proposed deal between Foxtel and Optus Television by August 2002 at the earliest. The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission ACCC chairman, Allan Fels, says the two ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian regulators...
ABIX via COMTEX) -- Foxtel stakeholders will revise a proposed deal with Optus, after it was rejected as anti-competitive. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's ACCC chairman, Alan Fels, said on 21 June 2002 that the proposed content ABIX via COMTEX) -- Foxtel stakeholders will revise...
INTRODUCTION Hydrometeors, such as water drops and ice crystals, scatter incident electromagnetic waves. Polarization of backscattered field depends on the shape, size, orientation and type of the particles. While models of backscattering from water drops and snowflakes separately are well developed, the mixed ensemble of hydrometeors requires more...
Chas faces a lonely evening with Orange Looking forward to Orange's Christmas press party? Nor us either, given that the credit crunch seems to have got to them too: "Tired of foie gras and champagne?" they ask, before proposing to take people to the pub instead. There...
Bank union fears loss of 40,000 jobs in tie-up deal A new UK banking giant came a bit closer to reality yesterday after Lloyds TSB shareholders overwhelmingly voted through the company's takeover of its smaller rival HBOS, paving the way for the Government-brokered deal to...
Lawrences' Third Offer to Purchase Company Rewards Shareholders While Providing State with Viable Solution to Restore Water Flow to Everglades NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Lawrence Group, lead by Gaylon Lawrence, Sr. and son Gaylon Lawrence, Jr., one of the nation's largest owners of farm land, announced a $300...
Byline: By HENRYK ZIENTEK Business Reporter SHAREHOLDERS at Lloyds TSB have backed a proposed takeover of ailing rival HBOS. Investors voted 95.98% in favour of the controversial deal at Lloyds TSB's general meeting in Glasgow. They also backed plans to raise a total of...
PROVO -- Utah County government departments have tightened their belts so residents won't have to open their wallets for a tax hike. The three county commissioners announced Tuesday they won't raise taxes after two of them who were considering doing just that to deal with shrinking tax...
Briefing HBOSS CHAIRMAN has warned shareholders that the group faces being nationalised if they don't back the proposed takeover by Lloyds TSB. Dennis Stevenson told shareholders that the group will have to raise 12bn if the deal collapses, and that the financing would be more expensive...
Shareholders of Republic Services Inc. and Allied Waste Industries Inc. on Friday approved a merger creating the second- largest U.S. trash-hauling company. Shareholders approved Republic Services' purchase of Allied Waste in an all-stock deal that was valued at $6.07 billion when it was announced in June. It's...
MASS Petroleum Inc. (OTCBB: MASP) is pleased to announce a progress update of its planned acquisition of Uraltransneft and Uralneft, two private Russian oil and gas companies. All parties are still actively pursuing and trying to facilitate the goal of closing the acquisition transaction. The principals of Uraltransneft and Uralneft...
Baron International, Inc, a wholly ownedsubsidiary of BIH Corporation (PINKSHEETS: BIHC) announced today that theyhave signed a multi-million dollar renovation deal to supply and providelabor and materials for 20 Applebee's outlets in the tri-state (NY, NJ andCT) area. Baron per agreement will be the sub-contractor on this job to...
SPORTS clubs have been invited to apply for a share of a new pounds 500,000 investment fund. Councillors voted to commit the cash over three years. Any club can apply to Kirklees Council for up to pounds 50,000 to expand its facilities or move in to...
Alameda Power & Telecom's quest for a way out of its financial quagmire may be resolved by a deal with cable giant Comcast. The proposed $17 million offer from Comcast won't solve all the problems of the troubled telecom system, but it's a better deal than many...
Cable giant Comcast has offered $17 million for Alameda's beleaguered telecommunications business, and if the City Council approves the deal, the company could take over next Friday. Alameda Power & Telecom's general manager, Girish Balachandran, announced the deal at a public workshop Wednesday to discuss the future...
SANTA CRUZ -- A 19-year-old French student accused of raping a Contra Costa County woman on a levee in August pleaded no contest Wednesday to a lesser sex crime and is being deported. Pierre Miximilien Anton had faced up to eight years in state prison, but instead...
Byline: SHAN OAKES BARACK Obama's success gives us all a long overdue cause for new hope. People are delighted worldwide. The new Green Party leader, Caroline Lucas, said Obama's election could "turn the page for the US on green policies, looking at his proposals for greening...
A day after Tim Lincecum became the second Cy Young award winner in Giants history, the agent for the young right-hander said he would be open to discussing a multiyear contract with club officials. "I never draw a line in the sand," said agent Rick Thurman, softening...
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. today announced that a majority of its shares have been voted to approve the proposed combination between InBev N.V./S.A. and Anheuser-Busch during a special shareholder meeting held today. At the closing of the transaction, Anheuser-Busch shareholders will...
The city has been buying up Willets Point properties bit by bit. And with last week's property acquisition agreements for two more parcels, the city says it now controls 40% of the 62-acre site. A deal with Indian food distributor House of Spices adds four acres,...
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