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Cargill to buy Norwegian fish feed maker Ewos for $1.5 bn
18 Aug 2015
The proposed deal is the second Cargill has invested in aquaculture over the last month
Birla Corp to buy two cement plants in eastern India from LafargeHolcim for Rs5,000 cr
18 Aug 2015
The mega deal requires approval from regulators in around 17 countries, and the two companies would have to sell assets worth more than $11 billion to comply with competition concerns
Housing.com acquires HomeBuy360 for $2 mn
17 Aug 2015
Goldman to buy GE bank’s $16-bn of deposits
14 Aug 2015
Earlier this year, GE announced plans to divest the bulk of its banking operations to simplify its business and focus on its core operations
Roche to buy GeneWEAVE BioSciences
14 Aug 2015
Google’s Niantic Labs to become independent company
13 Aug 2015
The split with Niantic suggested that Google might be looking to slim itself as part of its proposed reorganisation
Tata Steel to continue exploring sale of European long-products business as talks with Klesch Group collapse
13 Aug 2015
TPG Capital in advanced talks to buy US-based software firm Ellucian Co for around $3.5 bn
13 Aug 2015
Pearson to sell stake in The Economist to Agnelli family for $731 mn
13 Aug 2015
Within three weeks of the sale of its popular Financial Times (FT) business newspaper, British publisher and education major Pearson Plc has sold a significant chunk of the coveted weekly publication The Economist
Fidelity National to buy financial software maker SunGard Data Systems for $9.1 bn
12 Aug 2015
US payment services provider Fidelity National Information Services Inc (FIS) today struck a deal to buy privately-held financial software maker SunGard Data Systems Inc for $9.1 billion, including debt
Symantec Corp to sell data storage unit Veritas for $8 bn
12 Aug 2015
The deal, the biggest US leveraged buyout this year, would give Symantec much-needed funds to compete in the cyber security market with Microsoft , Intel and Kaspersky Labs
Capital One to buy GE Healthcare Finance for $9 bn
12 Aug 2015
Capital One, which has emerged as the seventh largest US bank, hopes to bolster its healthcare lending operations through the acquisition
Alibaba invests $4.6 bn in electronics retailer Suning
11 Aug 2015
The investment demonstrates Alibaba’s appetite for brick-and-mortar selling space despite its dominant position in online shopping
Google restructured under holding arm `Alphabet’, Sundar Pichai made CEO
11 Aug 2015
Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be the CEO and president of Alphabet, respectively while chairman Eric Schmidt will continue in that role at Alphabet as well
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