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2006
Viacom spins off broadcasting, themepark, publishing and
some cable tv interests as CBS Corporation
Konica Minolta announces withdrawal from camera and colour
film businesses
Shinawatra family sells its 49.6% stake in Shin Corp to
Temasek for US$1.9bn
Disney buys Pixar for US$7.4bn
AT&T makes US$67bn bid for BellSouth
NBC Universal agrees to buy iVillage for around US$600m
John Fairfax buys Trade Me for $625m
Hearst agrees to acquire 20% stake in Fitch Group for
US$592m
Softbank agrees to buy Vodafone's Japanese mobile-phone
unit for US$15.4bn
US pet owners spend US$24.5bn on veterinary care
Alcatel and Lucent Technologies announce US$13.4bn merger
Silicon Graphics goes into Chapter 11
Google Inc pays US$1.65bn for YouTube
Publicis agrees to buy internet marketing specialist Digitas
for US$1.3bn
2007
Time Warner abandons US$900m bid for web marketer TradeDoubler
Prudential sells online bank Egg to Citigroup for £575m
Post och Inrikes Tidningar becomes digital only
DaimlerChrysler sells 80% stake in Chrysler
Microsoft fined US$1.52bn for infringing Alcatel-Lucent
digital music patent
Federation Tower, Moscow (93 floors, 1,470 feet)
KKR agrees to acquire payment processor First Data Corp
for US$29bn
Google acquires DoubleClick for US$3.1bn
Experian pays US$240m for Hitwise
Yahoo buys remaining 80% of Right Media for US$680m
WPP buys internet ad broker 24/7 Real Media for US$649m
Thomson agrees to acquire Reuters
Microsoft agrees to pay US$6bn for ad broker aQuantive
EU adopts 2005 Prüm Treaty as its own law
Bell Canada agrees to be acquired by Ontario Teachers'
Pension Plan and Providence Equity Partners for US$48.8bn
News Corp acquires Dow
Jones
subprime property bubble collapses
liquidation of Emap
Treaty of Lisbon in EU
2008
Microsoft launches US$44.6bn bid for Yahoo
Getty
announces agreement to be acquired by Hellman & Friedman
for US$2.4bn
AOL pays US$850m for Bebo
UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
(CRPD)
Hewlett-Packard agrees to pay US$13.9bn for EDS
Best Buy acquires Napster for US$121m
Visa IPO raises US$19.7bn
Wall Street 'subprime crash' sees demise of Lehman Bros,
sale of Merrill Lynch, nationalisation of WaMu
2009
first trial in International Criminal Court
collapse of Icelandic banking system
Chrysler and GM go into Chapter 11
2010
Visa agrees to buy online payment processor Cyberssource
for US$2bn
Dai-ichi Mutual Life raises US$11bn in IPO
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