EBay has reached to an online shopping club for a way to improve its fashion credibility in the European market in a deal to buy brands4friends, the largest online club for fashion in Germany.
Traders added that Cyprus' decision last week to sell a portion of its gold reserves as part of a bail-out deal had dealt a sharp blow to confidence in the market, arousing fears that other eurozone countries with much larger gold reserves could follow suit.
Starz controls the pay-cable rights to movies from Disney and Sony, and signed the deal with Netflix in 2008 when online video was a much smaller market, according to the LA Times.
That number could swell if PayPal strikes a deal with Google to support mobile application purchases in its Android Market.
They claim that drug companies and even doctors are pathologising normally-naughty childhood behaviour in order to create a market for drugs or to deal painlessly with a potentially time-consuming condition.
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That being said, traditional investing opportunities exist in the stock market to trade companies that do a great deal of good.
The tough economic environment should, at least in the short term, curtail the ability of sports franchises to play one market against another in search of a sweet stadium deal.
India's Lupin has a deal to market Eli Lilly's anti-diabetic drugs in India and Nepal.
The risk must be that whatever government emerges will only prove an interlude before a fresh crisis, in which external pressure once again is required to force Rome to confront the Italian economy's structural shortcomings, perhaps in return for a deal with the European Central Bank to support the government bond market under its Outright Market Transactions program.
Not that long ago AMD blew a tentative deal to supply processors to the single most attractive customer in the device market: Apple.
There would be a great deal more banks smaller in stature, but thanks to limits set by market forces, none would grow too large.
Add to that the growing concern that the global economy is once again stumbling and that commodity prices may be near a top, and you have a Chinese deal-making market that has gone from 60 to zero in no time.
Justice likely to approve deal by year-end, giving him a foothold in U.S. satellite TV market.
The IPO market got off to a strong start in 2011 in terms of deal flow, but the European financial crisis kicked in over the summer and put a stop to the offerings.
In January 2011, Lilly entered into a deal with privately-held Boehringer to market linagliptin.
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The deal market is grinding to a halt after a sustained boom that reached a climax in the spring with six of the largest buyouts ever, including Blackstone's deal for Equity Office Partners and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts' deals for TXU and First Data, among others.
In September, AeroVironment reached a deal with heavy equipment dealer Toyota Material Handling USA to market the system.
The deal gives Fuji a 75% stake in Fuji Xerox, which was formed in 1962 to market Xerox copiers to Japan and other Pacific Rim countries.
Most of these went to developing countries, and Cherry is counting on its deal with Chrysler to help it meet the quality and safety standards needed to get a foothold in the American market.
One of our concerns was that the infrastructures of those markets and the risk- and liquidity-management practices of market participants would not be adequate to deal in an orderly way with the collapse of a major counterparty.
Sony made its first attempt at the market for interactive TV in late 1999, when it signed a deal to provide three million digital set-top boxes to Cablevision Systems (nyse: CVC - news - people ) subscribers in the New York City area.
But the pricey deal also shows how difficult it has become to find promising experimental drugs that might come to the market in a short time frame.
The deal is the largest-ever foreign direct investment in South Africa and marks Barclays' return to a market it was forced to quit in the 1980s following pressure from anti-apartheid campaigners.
Expensive high impact players like Torii Hunter, Mariano Rivera and Mike Lowell are already off the market--not to mention Alex Rodriguez apparently in the midst of finalizing a deal to return to the Yankees.
The deal to take Dell private shows what is possible in the leveraged-buyout market but doesn't necessarily portend a return of the megadeals popular before the financial crisis.
According to the Associated Press, one anonymous insider said the private equity firms sought to squash the deal over questions about Harman's financial health, not because of any financing difficulties in a tight credit market.
In other news, Colgate-Palmolive (nyse: CL - news - people ) says it struck a deal to buy the privately owned Swiss toothpaste company GABA Holding in order to build a bigger presence in the European toothpaste market.
The deal gives Microsoft a piece of the action in Europe's telecom market, while ntl gets access to Microsoft's software expertise.
The uptick in market volatility this week represents a blip compared to what may occur when markets are forced to deal head on with a serious stimulus reduction.
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After a weekend of fraught negotiations, a deal was announced just before the market reopened on August 6th with critical details missing that had to be filled in via a second announcement.
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