Walgreen Co said it would buy a 45 percent stake in KKR & Co-backed Alliance Boots for $6.7 billion in a cash and stock deal.
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News Corp in $2 billion Australia pay-TV bid; Packer cashes up
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp (NWSA.O) made a $2 billion takeover offer for Australia's Consolidated Media Holdings (CMJ.AX) on Wednesday.
KKR builds Singapore team as SEAsia competition intensifies
KKR has reached a first close of $3 billion for its $6 billion Asian fund. KKR & Co LP is setting up its first deals team in Singapore as the U. S.
Rio Tinto approves $3.7 billion Australia iron ore expansion
Rio Tinto (RIO.AX) (RIO.L) will spend $3.7 billion to boost its Australian output of iron ore. Rio Tinto (RIO. AX) (RIO. L) will spend $3. 7 billion to boost its Australian output of iron ore, its most profitable business, shrugging off forecasts of waning demand and a looming global supply glut as Chinese manufacturing slows.
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jobs search engine Bright has secured $6 million in initial venture capital to kick off a service that analyzes job seekers and matches them with posted jobs across the Internet.
Kenyan investment firm Centum (ICDC.NR) posted a 40 percent drop in full year profit on Tuesday without issuing a profit warning beforehand as required by market rules, sending its shares tumbling.
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Index Ventures said it raised a 350 million euro fund - about $441 million - to invest in seed and early-stage technology companies.
A Hong Kong investor will plough about 480 million pounds ($751 million) into a development in east London's Greenwich peninsula to take a majority stake in the 150-acre scheme.
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Global food and dairy companies are making another round of big bets on China's fast growing dairy sector.
British buyout group Melrose Plc is in talks to buy German utility-meter maker Elster Group SE in a deal worth $2.3 billion.
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