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Le premier groupe publicitaire français Publicis a annoncé le rachat de l'agence chinoise W&K Communications, une acquisition qui lui permet de se renforcer dans les marchés émergents. Le montant de la transaction n'a pas été précisé...

centerimg border=0 title="Sprint And Clearwire Complete WiMAX Deal" alt="Sprint And Clearwire Complete WiMAX Deal" src="http://www.uberphones.com/photos/2008/12/clearxohm.jpg" style="margin: 0 0 0 0;" //center br/pClearwire Corporation and Sprint Nextel have announced that they have completed the deal to merge their next-generation wireless Internet businesses. Sprint will contribute all of its 2.5GHz spectrum and its WiMAX-related assets, which includes its XOHM business. Clearwire has also received a whopping $3.2 billion cash investment from giants such as Comcast, Intel, Time Warner Cable, Google and Bright House Networks. The transaction was completed based on the terms that were originally announced on May 7th 2008. The new company will retain the name Clearwire, and its headquarters will still be in Kirkland, Washington. /p pPermalink: a href="http://www.uberphones.com/2008/12/sprint_and_clearwire_complete_wimax_deal/"Sprint And Clearwire Complete WiMAX Deal/a from a href="http://www.uberphones.com"Uberphones/a | a href="http://www.uberbargain.com/"Good deals/a | Hot: a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/11/blackberry_storm_review.html"BlackBerry Storm/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/354Lx2gk2obHjtYKwP8D2err2CQ/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/354Lx2gk2obHjtYKwP8D2err2CQ/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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Clearwire and Sprint Nextel complete transaction to form new company to build nationwide 4G broadband network and roll out Clear brand.

The two companies announce their joint-venture transaction is complete and roll out the new Clear brand for their planned 4G broadband network.

La transaction n'a pas encore été officialisée, mais Sumner Redstone a cédé ses parts dans Midway pour 100 000 dollars.

Le groupe pharmaceutique américain va débourser 1,07 milliard de dollars en numéraire pour racheter Mentor Corporation. La transaction doit être finalisée au premier trimestre 2009.  

- Le groupe pharmaceutique américain va racheter Mentor Corporation, spécialisé dans les implants mammaires. La transaction, intégralement en cash, doit être finalisée au premier trimestre 2009.   -

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L'assureur américain AIG, qui a été quasi-nationalisé en septembre, a passé un accord avec une société d'investissement d'Abou Dhabi pour lui céder sa banque privée basée en Suisse, selon un communiqué publié lundi.Le prix de cette transaction pour vendre

BNP Paribas Real Estate Property Management a annonc#233; l#39;acquisition de la soci#233;t#233; Aberdeen Property Investors Belgium, une op#233;ration qui lui permet de devenir leader du secteur en Belgique, avec pr#232;s de 2,2#160;millions de m2#160;g#233;r#233;s en immobilier d#39;entreprise. Le montant de la transaction n#39;a pas #233;t#233; pr#233;cis#233;. Fond#233;e en 1991#160;et bas#233;e #224; Bruxelles, Aberdeen Property Investors Belgium - anciennement Catella Property Management - g#232;re 1,06#160;millions de m2#160;en immobilier d#39;entreprise pour le compte de 30#160;clients nationaux et internationaux. Quant #224; BNP Paribas Paribas Real Estate Property Management, elle g#232;re actuellement 1,1#160;million de m2#160;en immobilier d#39;entreprise en Belgique, pour le compte de 45#160;clients.img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/864/f/11087/s/2799b57/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24193181116/u/89/f/11087/c/864/s/41524055/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24193181116/u/89/f/11087/c/864/s/41524055/a2.img" border="0"//a

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Mary Jo Foley has an article called Move over, Ajax. Here comes Microsoft’s ‘Kojax’. The thing is, I don’t get what it actually is:

Kojax is a mobile development platform, according to my sources, that will allow Microsoft- — and third-party-developed — applets run in an Ajax-like way, using a combination of Visual Studio tools and JavaScript, on Java-based mobile phones.

Erm, is this just JavaScript running on the JVM? This is the big deal instead of the PDC touted “write using .NET and deploy everywhere”?

Mary goes on:

What kinds of mobile applets are we talking about here? Nothing iPhone-like, such as restaurant reviews or “I am Rich.” More like a virtual wallet for online payments, a group messaging service and photo-sharing app — things that build on top of Windows Live for Mobile services. Some of these Kojax-based applets will ad-funded; others will likely be transaction- and subscription-based.

Another interesting part of the Kojax tips I’ve received: Microsoft allegedly is aiming its Kojax applet plans primarily at users in emerging markets.

The Kojax work may or may not be related to a recent Unlimited Potential initiative about which I recently heard, known as “Mobile First.” Mobile First is all about users whose first Microsoft-related experience tends to be in the mobile-phone, rather than the PC, realm. (Given Microsoft’s recent acknowledgment that China Mobile will offer the first handsets running Internet Explorer 6, it’s not far-fetched to see how/why Microsoft is putting so much emphasis on emerging-market customers.)

I haven’t been able to glean much more about Kojax and Microsoft’s mobile applet plans. So before you ask, I don’t know what stage Kojax is at: It could be anything from a glimmer in a Microsoft development team’s eye, or something in private beta.

Zurich (AWP/ats) - La banque privée zurichoise AIG Private Bank va être rachetée par Aabar, un groupe financier basé à Abou Dhabi. La transaction, ...

À partir d’aujourd’hui ; déploiement aux titres nordiques prévu le 5 décembre.

DE NOTRE CORRESPONDANTE À FRANCFORT.Allianz et Commerzbank ont réussi à déjouer les pronostics pessimistes des analystes, qui tablaient depuis quelques semaines sur un échec de la cession de Dresdner Bank. La transaction va bien avoir lieu, et même plus (13 articles connexes)

We were doubtful last night when the story first broke. There were just too many oddities to The Times’ story about a complicated Yahoo/Microsoft search deal that would guarantee billions to Yahoo in exchange for a ten year search deal. We’ve checked with our sources - all of them - and we can’t verify a single fact in the story.

The first part of the story: “Microsoft is in talks to acquire Yahoo’s online search business for $20 billion.”

Our sources at Microsoft say they are not in current negotiations with Yahoo, over anything. Our sources at Yahoo agree, also saying they are not in negotiations with Microsoft over anything. Yahoo sources add that the company is fully engaged in finding a new CEO right now, and nothing else.

The second part of the story: “The proposal forms the centrepiece of a complex transaction that would see Microsoft support a new management team to take control of Yahoo…Jonathan Miller, ex-chairman and chief executive of AOL, and Ross Levinsohn, a former president of Fox Interactive Media, have been lined up to lead the new management team.”

I spoke with Ross Levinsohn this afternoon. He says that there is absolutely no truth to the story. He also says that neither he or Jonathan Miller, his partner at Velocity Interactive Group, were contacted by the Times.

The third part of the story: “Under the terms of the proposed transaction, Microsoft would provide a $5 billion facility to the Miller and Levinsohn management team. The duo would raise an additional $5 billion from external investors. This cash would be used to buy convertible preference shares and warrants which would give it a holding in excess of 30% of Yahoo. The external investors would also have the right to appoint three of Yahoo’s 11 board directors. The talks with Yahoo involve Microsoft obtaining a 10-year operating agreement to manage the search business. It would also receive a two-year call option to buy the search business for $20 billion. That would leave Yahoo to run its own e-mail, messaging, and content services. It is expected that the operating agreement would boost Yahoo’s income by as much as $2 billion per annum.”

See above. Also, the deal terms make no sense compared to Microsoft’s actual search offer from earlier this year. It values Yahoo way above market value, even taking deal premiums into account, and the incremental cash flow from the deal doesn’t match up to previous estimates published by Yahoo.

The Times has long been considered the newspaper of record in the UK, but yesterday they really stepped in it, and someone has manipulated them badly. Thankfully the markets weren’t open, because the article would have definitely resulted in a short term spike in Yahoo stock.

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The Sunday Times of UK reports (more like speculates) that Microsoft is going to buy Yahoo’s search business for $20 billion in a very complex transaction. The Sunday Times claims that Jonathan Miller formerly chief executive of AOL, and Ross Levinsohn, a former president of Fox Interactive Media are going to run the new management team.

Under the terms of the proposed transaction, Microsoft would provide a $5 billion facility to the Miller and Levinsohn management team. The duo would raise an additional $5 billion from external investors. This cash would be used to buy convertible preference shares and warrants which would give it a holding in excess of 30% of Yahoo. The external investors would also have the right to appoint three of Yahoo’s 11 board directors. The talks with Yahoo involve Microsoft obtaining a 10-year operating agreement to manage the search business. It would also receive a two-year call option to buy the search business for $20 billion. That would leave Yahoo to run its own e-mail, messaging, and content services. It is expected that the operating agreement would boost Yahoo’s income by as much as $2 billion per annum.

If true, that would value the search business — not exactly a champion — more than Yahoo’s actual market value of approximately $16 billion. Microsoft might be desperate to win online, but as we have seen time and again, trying to buy share in search is a failing strategy. With little or no sources, I find this story as unreliable as a piece of swiss cheese left for too long in the pantry. Levinsohn who described Times story as “total fiction” seems to agree. What are your thoughts? 

pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=48954c7714b9b93300525357maxX=250maxY=417" border="0" alt="jon miller kung fu aol.jpg" title="jon miller kung fu aol.jpg" width="250" height="417" /The Times of London reports the details of an intricate pending Microsoft-Yahoo deal, in which Microsoft would buy Yahoo's search business for $20 billion and install Jon Miller and Ross Levinsohn to run the company. The concept sounds reasonable (Microsoft buying Yahoo search), but the price sounds ridiculous (Yahoo's whole market cap right now is about $15 billion). And a key player in the drama, Ross Levinsohn, says the whole thing is a crock./p pFirst, a href="http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article5258258.ece"the Times' report:/a/p p style="padding-left: 30px;"SOFTWARE giant Microsoft is in talks to acquire Yahoo's online search business for $20 billion ( 13 billion)./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"The proposal forms the centrepiece of a complex transaction that would see Microsoft support a new management team to take control of Yahoo. But there is no intention of Microsoft tabling another takeover bid for the web giant, after its aborted $47.5 billion offer this summer./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"It is thought that Jonathan Miller, ex-chairman and chief executive of AOL, and Ross Levinsohn, a former president of Fox Interactive Media, have been lined up to lead the new management team. Senior directors at Microsoft and Yahoo are understood to have agreed the broad terms of a deal, but there is no guarantee that it will succeed.../p p style="padding-left: 30px;"Under the terms of the proposed transaction, Microsoft would provide a $5 billion facility to the Miller and Levinsohn management team. The duo would raise an additional $5 billion from external investors./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"This cash would be used to buy convertible preference shares and warrants which would give it a holding in excess of 30% of Yahoo./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"The external investors would also have the right to appoint three of Yahoo's 11 board directors. The talks with Yahoo involve Microsoft obtaining a 10-year operating agreement to manage the search business. It would also receive a two-year call option to buy the search business for $20 billion. That would leave Yahoo to run its own e-mail, messaging, and content services./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"It is expected that the operating agreement would boost Yahoo's income by as much as $2 billion per annum./p pAnd now a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20081129/total-fiction-there-is-no-20-billion-microsoft-deal-to-buy-yahoo-search/"Kara Swisher's debunking:/a/p p style="padding-left: 30px;"A a href="http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article5258258.ece"report in the Times of London/a in which Microsoft would buy Yahoo's search business in a convoluted $20 billion deal that would include well-known Internet execs Jon Miller and Ross Levinsohn, is-in the words of one key player-'total fiction.'/p p style="padding-left: 30px;"Actually, that's Levinsohn speaking, on the record. But that's also the essential word from all key players regarding the Times' report./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"BoomTown has spoken to top sources at Yahoo (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT) too and all scoff at such a deal now taking place or that either side has been in any such discussions of late./p pWho to believe? Let's assume the truth is somewhere in the middle. Even if there are no actual talks taking place right this minute, there should be./p pThe $20 billion number is almost certainly fiction, given that, last summer, Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo's search business for $1 billion. Microsoft also wants to own and run the search technology, so the idea of having a call option doesn't really make sense. Microsoft and Yahoo need to merge their search businesses, however, and both companies have said publicly they are happy to discuss a deal, so the idea that they're working on something is perfectly plausible. (And if they aren't now, soon.)/p pRoss Levinsohn and Jon Miller, meanwhile, would make fine additions to Yahoo's senior team, and they are almost certainly being considered for those roles./p pLastly, unlike everyone else in the economy, Microsoft has cash coming out of its ears. So the idea of Microsoft using some of that cash to facilitate a Yahoo deal (which it also tried to do last summer). also makes sense./p pstrongBottom line: /strongIf Yahoo and Microsoft aren't discussing a search deal right now, they should be and soon will be. And Yahoo's short list of candidates for CEO probably includes Jon./p pstrongSee Also/strong: a href="http://businesssheet.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/the-biggest-losers-"The Biggest Losers: 20 Moguls Creamed By The Crash/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/HUGAG6ApwIYj8zYalcFYhx8hc3A/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/HUGAG6ApwIYj8zYalcFYhx8hc3A/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=Xazo1K74"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=Xazo1K74" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=TCUsVG9D"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=loHWkdFZ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=7QzwaJIM"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=7QzwaJIM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=69Duwhxf"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=zKFQt5X3"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=b54mT8QX"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=kWVNDw24"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/0RJVw6sTqM0" height="1" width="1"/