Business Standard | 22/01/2016
Business Standard French telecom major Orange has signed a deal with Bharti Airtel International (Netherlands) BV for acquiring its operations in two African countries, Burkina Faso and Sierra Leone. Orange will acquire all the two companies’ share capital. The consolidated yearly revenue of the two is about 275 million, according to a statement from Bharti […]
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Reuters | 22/01/2016
Reuters France’s Aeroports de Paris SA has emerged as the front-runner to buy a 20 percent stake in Airports Corp of Vietnam (ACV), after an official confirmed Changi Airport International had failed at the application stage. ACV, valued at $1.2 billion, is one of Vietnam’s largest state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and operates most of the country’s […]
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Forbes | 22/01/2016
Forbes Unilever NV just announced that it today obtained approval from the Cuban government for the creation of a joint venture, Unilever-Suchel S.A., in the Mariel Special Development Zone (Cuba). Unilever will invest $35 million in the venture. Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Lilianne Ploumen had announced last week that she hoped […]
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Fortune | 22/01/2016
Fortune Many publishers have reluctantly accepted the fact that social media is the new distribution channel for content. Others, like BuzzFeed, have fully embraced it by launching entire publications that exist solely on Facebook. But others are wary to give up control over the distribution of their content. In their parlance, they want to “own […]
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New York Times | 22/01/2016
New York Times General Electric said on Friday that it had agreed to sell its appliances business to Qingdao Haier of China for $5.4 billion in cash. The deal includes the stake of 48.4 percent that G.E. Appliances owns in Mabe, a Mexican appliances company. The Chinese appliances company, which had revenue of about $32.6 […]
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CNBC | 22/01/2016
CNBC Uber has found an unlikely partner for its on-demand services in Airbus, the company announced on Sunday, with the aerospace giant providing helicopters for a pilot project. As part of a new Silicon Valley-based initiative, Airbus has established a partnership with Uber was part of an experiment that would allow Uber users to hail […]
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Asia Asset | 14/01/2016
Asia Asset BNP Paribas’s asset management arm BNP Paribas Investment Partners (BNPP IP) has announced a strategic partnership with independent alternative investment firm Orion Partners LP (Orion Partners). Click here to read full article. About Wiserlinks.
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Pharmafile | 14/01/2016
Pharmafile Sanofi has signed two separate research agreements for €1.2 billion, which will give the French firm licensing rights to potential new oncology therapies, antibodies and other drugs. Click here to read full article. About Wiserlinks.
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Reuters | 14/01/2016
Reuters London-listed exploration and production firm Premier Oil (PMO.L) has agreed to buy German utility E.ON’s (EONGn.DE) UK North Sea oil and gas assets for $120 million (83.09 million pound), the companies said on Wednesday. Click here to read full article. About Wiserlinks.
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Reuters | 14/01/2016
Reuters Nestle is investing in U.S.-based Seres Therapeutics for a third time in a year, this time injecting $120 million to develop and commercialize medicines aimed at restoring a healthy bacteriological balance in the human digestive system. Click here to read full article. About Wiserlinks.
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