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Mentor’s Aesthetic and Reconstructive Medical Products Complement Ethicon’s Industry-Leading Surgery Portfolio
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Omrix's Biopharmaceutical Expertise Complements ETHICON's Industry-Leading Surgery Portfolio
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Henkel has agreed to sell in total approximately 67.1 million shares of
Ecolab common stock, as a result of the public offering of its stake in
Ecolab Inc., St. Paul, Minnesota, and the share buy back by Ecolab.
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The Spanish investor group Bestinver has sold its stake of approximately 13 percent in Ciba Holding AG to BASF outside the public tender offer.
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IBM today announced the commencement of cash tender offers in France and the United States, by CITLOI S.A.S., a wholly-owned subsidiary of IBM, for all outstanding shares (including shares represented by American Depository Shares and warrants of ILOG.
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Via Scintilla AG, Solothurn, an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Robert Bosch GmbH, Bosch made these acquisitions through market purchases on SIX Swiss Exchange as well as off-exchange.
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Bosch signed an agreement with Behr Bircher Cellpack BBC AG, Villmergen (Switzerland) to purchase nearly 40 percent of the shares in sia Abrasives Holding AG, Frauenfeld (Switzerland).
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The New York Stock Exchange, a subsidiary of NYSE Euronext (NYX), is rolling out two new technologies that, respectively, give brokers on the NYSE trading floor the ability to trade algorithmically, and strengthen the brokers’ ability to locate large sources of liquidity.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) and ILOG (NASDAQ: ILOG; Euronext: ILO, ISIN: FR0004042364) today announced they have signed an agreement regarding a proposed acquisition by IBM of ILOG to be implemented by way of concurrent cash public tender offers in both France and the United States.
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Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $15.84 billion for the fiscal fourth quarter ended June 30, 2008, an 18% increase over the same period of the prior year.
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IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has invested in the shares of Mixta Africa, a real estate company operating in Africa.
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Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) announced today that the company has decided to accept Nokia's cash offer to acquire all of the Symbian Limited shares that Nokia does not already own.
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Company Gains Share in First Quarter Across All Major Product Categories and Regions
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Nestle has agreed to sell 24.85 percent of Alcon's issued and outstanding capital to Novartis for approximately USD 11 billion in cash.
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STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) today announced that its Supervisory Board has authorized the company to repurchase up to 30 million shares of its common stock.
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Bayer HealthCare affiliate MEDRAD, Inc. announced today that it has successfully completed its tender offer for the outstanding shares of common stock of Possis Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: POSS).
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Royal Dutch Shell plc announced today that an agreement in principle was concluded to settle the pending United States class action arising from Shell's* recategorization of its proved oil and gas reserves in 2004.
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Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE:PHG, AEX:PHI) today announced that effective March 1, 2008, it will abandon equity accounting for its current shareholding in LG Display Co., Ltd. (NYSE: LPL, KRX: 034220), formerly known as LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd.
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Oracle Founders Also Agree to Forfeit Certain Shares; Oracle to Reschedule Special Meeting for March 5, 2008
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Transaction valued at approximately $44.6 billion in cash and stock; provides 62 percent premium to current trading price for Yahoo! shareholders; combined entity to create a more competitive company, providing superior value to shareholders, better choice and innovation for customers and partners.
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