  | | | | VIENNA (Reuters) - Telekom Austria is receiving positive signals from politicians who must approve billionaire Carlos Slim's bid to take a major stake in the company, Chief Executive Hannes Ametsreiter said on Thursday. | | |  | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Private equity firm Carlyle Group LP agreed to take over photo agency Getty Images Inc from Hellman & Friedman LLC in a $3.3 billion deal, betting on growing demand for online images as the media industry shifts away from print. | | | | | | MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Spanish bank Santander hopes to raise as much as $4 billion in an initial public offering of a portion of its Mexican unit, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. | | | | | | TOKYO (Reuters) - Cash-strapped Sharp Corp is in talks to sell its key solar panel plant in Japan as part of an asset sale seeking more than $1.2 billion, local media said on Thursday, but it may struggle to woo buyers as high costs force the industry offshore, a source close to the company said. | | | | | | SEOUL (Reuters) - A consortium formed by South Korean private equity fund STIC Investments and Hana Daetoo Securities was picked as the preferred bidder to acquire a 49 percent stake in unlisted defense company LIG Nex1 worth around $440 million, a source said on Thursday. | | | | | | DOHA/DUBAI (Reuters) - Qatar Telecom (Qtel) is offering $2.2 billion to buy the remaining 47.5 percent stake it does not already own in Kuwaiti telecom company Wataniya as the state-owned operator eyes acquisitions to ward off threats from rivals. | | | | | | LONDON (Reuters) - Canada's Barrick Gold is in preliminary discussions with China National Gold Group Corporation over its 74 percent stake in unit African Barrick Gold , the world's largest gold producer said on Thursday. | | | | | | (Reuters) - Tata Consultancy Services Ltd , India's top software services exporter, said it agreed to buy Computational Research Laboratories (CRL), a start-up group company, for 1.88 billion rupees ($33.7 million). | | | | | HONG KONG (Reuters) - China Galaxy Securities plans to raise a combined $1 billion through initial public offerings in Hong Kong and Shanghai in the first half of 2013, IFR reported on Thursday, citing sources with knowledge of the plans. | | | | | | SEOUL (Reuters) - Private equity fund MBK Partners will pay 1.2 trillion won ($1.1 billion) for a stake in South Korean water purifier maker Woongjin Coway Co , sources said, in the country's second billion-dollar plus buyout deal in under two weeks. | | | |  |  | | | 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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