| | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc's top officials said on Monday they are weighing all strategies, including potential hostile maneuvers, in the company's effort to seal a $106 billion takeover of British drugmaker AstraZeneca Plc. | |  | | | LONDON (Reuters) - Representatives from U.S. drugmaker Pfizer and British pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca will be called before a British parliamentary committee to discuss a potential takeover deal in the coming weeks, a committee spokesman said on Tuesday. | | | | | | PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande said General Electric's bid for Alstom's energy business is not acceptable as it stands and that the government's aim is to get better offers. | | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd is considering increasing its offer to acquire rival reinsurer Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd to around $50 per share, or roughly $3.26 billion, people familiar with the matter said. | | | | | | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices has expanded its licensing technology agreement with Britain's ARM Holdings as the U.S. company seeks growth outside the slowing personal computer industry. | | | | | | SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese internet service provider Tencent Holdings plans to acquire an 11.3 percent stake in digital mapping service provider Navinfo Co Ltd for 1.17 billion yuan ($187.33 million), Navinfo said late on Monday. | | | | | | PARIS (Reuters) - The French government rejected General Electric's current bid for Alstom's energy assets on Monday, but opened the door for a deal that would also combine the two companies' rail businesses. | | | | | | (Reuters) - Private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC is exploring a sale of New Breed Logistics Inc in a deal that could value the supply chain management company at more than $1 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. | | | | | (Reuters) - Web developer Automattic, the company that operates blogging service WordPress.com, said it raised $160 million from a group of investors led by venture capital firm Insight Ventures. | | | | | | (Reuters) - Chinese jobs website operator Zhaopin Ltd filed with U.S. regulators to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering of American depositary shares. | | | |  |  | | | A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today | | |  | |  | | | The latest Reuters articles on M&A, IPOs, private equity, hedge funds and regulatory updates delivered to your inbox each day. Register Today | | | | | | » MORE NEWSLETTERS | |
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