| | TOKYO (Reuters) - Hitachi Ltd said it hopes to join Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd and Siemens AG in their joint bid for Alstom SA's energy assets, which the Nikkei newspaper said would be worth 1 trillion yen ($9.80 billion). | |  | | | BEIJING (Reuters) - Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's full acquisition of Chinese mobile browser firm UCWeb and subsequent merger may create a higher valuation for Alibaba's coming U.S. listing, UCWeb Chief Executive Yu Yongfu said at a group media interview on Thursday. | | | | | | FRANKFURT (Reuters) - IK Investment Partners has sold a majority stake in German industrial fire protection systems maker Minimax Viking in a deal that values the group at $1.9 billion, two people close to the transaction said on Thursday. | | | | | | MILAN (Reuters) - Italian cement maker Italcementi said on Thursday its takeover bid on its French unit Ciments Francais would start on June 13 and end on July 3. | | | | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - AT&T Inc's acquisition of DirecTV would offer consumers access to video in a variety of media and give the company scale to compete with larger cable competitors, AT&T told U.S. regulators on Wednesday. | | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Imperial Tobacco Group Plc is evaluating a deal for assets likely to be divested from Reynolds American Inc and Lorillard Inc if the two U.S. tobacco companies proceed with a proposed combination, according to people familiar with the matter. | | | | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If Walgreen Co were to relocate its tax home-base to Switzerland, as some of its investors want, the United States would lose about $4 billion in tax revenue over five years, activist groups said on Wednesday. | | | | | | SYDNEY (Reuters) - Leighton Holdings Ltd , Australia's largest construction firm, said it may sell its John Holland roads and rail business as Spanish-controlled majority owner Hochtief AG seeks to cut debt and potentially finance a bid for full ownership. | | | | | (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc's chief financial officer on Wednesday said his company failed in its attempted $118 billion takeover of AstraZeneca Plc because they could not agree on the value of the British drugmaker. | | | | | | TOULOUSE (Reuters) - Airbus suffered an unexpected reversal for its newest aircraft on Wednesday when Dubai's Emirates scrapped a $16 billion order for the A350, hitting shares in the European planemaker and engine firm Rolls-Royce. | | | |  |  | | | 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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