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Aetna to buy Coventry Healthcare in $5.7-bn deal
22 Aug 2012
US health insurer Aetna Inc, on Monday signed a deal to buy rival Coventry Healthcare Inc for $5.7 billion in order to expand its Medicaid business
BAA agrees to sale of Stansted
21 Aug 2012
Qatar Holding buys stake in British airport operator BAA in $1.4 bn deal
18 Aug 2012
Qatar Holding, which has bought out Spanish infrastructure firm Ferrovial S A, will buy another 10 per cent from Britannia Airport Partners and Singapore’s GIC, taking a fifth of the airport operator’s equity for €1.144 billion ($1.4 billion)
Heineken raises bid for Asia Pacific Breweries to $4.5 billion
18 Aug 2012
At S$53 per share, the offer is still S$2 less than the price offered by Thai Beverage for a partial stake in Singapore-listed APB
Sharp denies plan to sell Sakai solar cell plant
16 Aug 2012
TCS acquires Pune-based strt-up for Rs188 crore
16 Aug 2012
Carlyle Group to buy Getty Images for $3.3 bn
16 Aug 2012
Carlyle Group, the world’s second-largest private-equity firm, has teamed up with the management of Getty Images Inc to buy the world's biggest stock-photo agency from Hellman & Friedman
Google to buy Frommer brand of travel guidebooks
14 Aug 2012
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