| | (Reuters) - Walgreen Co said it would buy a 45 percent stake in Alliance Boots for $6.7 billion in cash and stock to create the first global pharmacy-led, health and wellbeing enterprise. | |  | | | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc is paying $55 million to $60 million to buy Face.com, according to people familiar with the matter, acquiring the company that provides the facial-recognition technology used by the world's largest social network to help users identify and tag photos. | | | | | | ZURICH (Reuters) - Julius Baer is in talks with Bank of America about buying Merrill Lynch's non-U.S. wealth management unit, reported to be worth up to $2 billion and which would see the acquisition-hungry Swiss private bank land another big deal. | | | | | | NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - United Technologies Corp is looking to sell power generation assets within its Pratt and Whitney subsidiary in a deal that could fetch around $1 billion, according to three people familiar with the matter. | | | | | | SINGAPORE/HONG KONG (Reuters) - The race to win a bigger slice of Southeast Asia's insurance market is heating up as AIA Group , Manulife and Prudential PLC compete for mid-size acquisitions in the region totaling up to $1 billion, sources said. | | | | | | (Reuters) - Industrial gas supplier Air Products said it will buy a 67 percent stake in Chile-based Indura SA for $884 million to expand in Latin America. | | | | | | (Reuters) - Kohlberg Kravis Roberts , the private equity company, has bought hedge fund money manager Prisma Capital Partners LP, marking the latest move by the private equity sector to boost assets by bolting on smaller funds-of-funds shops. | | | | | | (Reuters) - Teen-focused retailer Zumiez Inc has agreed to buy Austria-based Blue Tomato for 59.5 million euros ($75 million) to beef up its sports goods offering in Europe, it said on Tuesday, as it raised its second-quarter revenue outlook. | | | | | SYDNEY/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Genting Group has increased its stake in Echo Entertainment to almost 10 percent, sources with knowledge of the matter said, putting the Malaysian gaming operator on par with billionaire James Packer seeking to gain control of the Australian casino operator. | | | | | | (Reuters) - EQT Midstream Partners, the midstream arm of natural gas producer EQT Corp , said it expects to price its initial public offering at between $19 and $21 per common unit. | | | |  |  | | | 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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