News: Mergers & Acquisitions

• Struggling AMD spins off its fab operations
  Sharon Gaudin
  Oct 13 2008
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  Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s move to spin off its manufacturing operations generated praise from analysts and questions from Intel Corp. about whether it violates a cross-licensing agreement ...

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• Kenya government defends Telkom, Safaricom sale
  Rebecca Wanjiku
  Oct 09 2008
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  Under criticism from some members of Parliament, the government is defending its decision to offload shares in Safaricom and Telkom Kenya. By selling its shares to foreigners in the telephony ...

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• Micron to cut staff by 15 percent
  Nancy Gohring
  Oct 09 2008
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  Micron and Intel plan to shut down their joint production of NAND flash memory from a Boise, Idaho, facility, and Micron plans to lay off about 15 percent of its workforce in another sign that the ...

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• Associated Newspapers merges IT divisions and loses CIO
  Mark Chillingworth
  Oct 08 2008
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  Newspaper publishing group Associated Newspapers, which includes the Daily Mail and General Trust and Northcliffe Media companies, is merging its IT divisions, resulting in the departure of ...

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• Report: Jerry Yang in New York to talk merger with Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes
  Jordan Golson, The Industry Standard
  Oct 08 2008
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  Yahoo CEO and cofounder Jerry Yang is in New York this week trying to complete talks with Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes over combining Yahoo and Time Warner's internet operations -- mainly AOL -- ...

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• Analysts: Spin-off puts AMD back in the fight with Intel
  Sharon Gaudin
  Oct 07 2008
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  By splitting off its manufacturing operations into a separate company, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. could be on track to become the nimble, innovative company that once had Intel Corp. on the ...

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• Analysts: AMD's foundry spin-off may save company
  Grant Gross
  Oct 07 2008
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  Advanced Micro Devices' decision to spin off its chip-manufacturing business into a separate company just may save the floundering firm, analysts said. AMD's decision to split into a chip-designing ...

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• AMD break-up: two voices from Europe
  Peter Sayer
  Oct 07 2008
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  The financial world seems to be falling apart, but Advanced Micro Devices has just landed several billion dollars from two Abu Dhabi investment groups to fund "Asset Smart," a plan to spin off its ...

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• AMD to spin off chip fabs to raise funds
  Peter Sayer
  Oct 07 2008
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  Advanced Micro Devices plans to split into two companies, one to design chips and one to make them, while two investment funds owned by the government of Abu Dhabi will contribute new capital, it ...

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• Report: AMD to spin-off manufacturing
  Martyn Williams
  Oct 06 2008
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  Advanced Micro Devices is preparing a to spin-off its manufacturing operations to a joint venture in an attempt to cut costs, according to an online report from The Wall Street Journal. The plan ...

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