Investment and M&A

Mobile operator TIM Participações (BZ:TIMP3) has released a notice to the local bourse denying that it is preparing an unsolicited bid for Nextel Brasil....

US telco and ISP Windstream (NASDAQ: WIN) reportedly aims to raise between US$500m and US$750m from the sale of its...

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), Singapore’s Sembcorp Industries (SES:U96) and several private equity firms are reportedly among those interested in buying a controlling stake in Indian...

US VoIP business Vonage (NYSE:VG) has agreed its fourth acquisition in nine months, this time inking a deal to buy smaller rival iCore...

US cable giant Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) has added to its media and advertising portfolios, agreeing to invest in BuzzFeed and acquire This Technology. Comcast’s media...

US fibre optic infrastructure firm Integra has added 3,500 route miles to its West Coast network after acquiring OpticAccess. US fibre optic infrastructure...

French media conglomerate Vivendi (EPA:VIV) has taken control of local free to air broadcaster SECP after buying a 45.2% stake for about €457.8m (US$506.4m)....

Japan’s Softbank (TYO:9984) spent a further US$72.7m on increasing its controlling stake in Sprint (NYSE:S) soon after the group said it had bought shares...

Vivendi (EPA:VIV) has sold 67.9 million preferred shares (a 4% stake) in Telefonica Brasilfor some US$877m, marking its exit from the subsidiary,...

The FCC’s conditions on AT&T (NYSE:T)’s US$48.5bn takeover of DirecTV (NASDAQ:DTV), have come under fire from critics, with some arguing that they go too...