| | TOKYO (Reuters) - Micron Technology won the right to negotiate exclusively to buy Elpida Memory Inc after offering more than 200 billion yen ($2.5 billion) for the failed Japanese chipmaker, a source with direct knowledge of the deal said, paving the way for the U.S. company to more than double its global market share. | |  | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has sold his $250 million debt holdings in Philip Falcone's telecom start-up LightSquared , while Falcone continues to negotiate with creditors to avoid a debt default, according to sources familiar with the matter. | | | | | | TOKYO (Reuters) - Marubeni Corp said on Monday it was interested in acquiring U.S. grain and energy trader Gavilon, establishing it as the most likely Asian buyer of the company as rival Japanese trading houses played down the chances they would bid. | | | | | | (Reuters) - Ixia , which provides testing products to telecom operators, will buy privately held rival Anue Systems Inc for $145 million in cash. | | | | | | FRANKFURT/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Samsonite International , the world's biggest luggage maker, is eyeing acquisitions of smaller, privately held companies, its chief executive told a German newspaper. | | | | | | TAIPEI (Reuters) - The buyer group for private equity fund MBK Partners' Taiwan cable television business said on Monday it might have to pull out of the $2.4 billion deal because of delays in the regulatory approval that it said had cost it an extra $300 million. | | | | | | HONG KONG (Reuters) - Beijing Enterprises Group (BJEG) again increased its stake in China Gas Holdings Ltd , a takeover target of Sinopec , raising the prospect of a bidding war between the two state-controlled companies. | | | | | | (Reuters) - Oil and gas producer Ithaca Energy Inc said it remained in dialogue with interested parties and has set a bid deadline after a newspaper reported that Kuwait's national oil company was no longer in talks to buy the Canadian company. | | | | | OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters) - Warren Buffett on Saturday said he recently mulled doing a $22 billion acquisition for his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. | | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Comcast Corp's NBCUniversal business exercised an option to sell "a substantial portion" of its stake in A&E Television Networks to joint-venture partners, a filing from the media company showed. | | | |  |  | | | 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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