Entries tagged "Auction Block"

Breakingviews worth the same as BusinessWeek?

Bloomberg tries to go mainstream with BusinessWeek while Thomson Reuters beefs up business commentary with agreement to acquire Breakingviews.

Report: BusinessWeek draws 93 possible buyers

McGraw Hill chairman and CEO Terry McGraw said on a Bloomberg Television interview Monday that there are 93 bidders for its beleaguered BusinessWeek magazine.

Could Madoff curveball trigger N.Y. Mets sale?

Erin Arvedlund in her new book 'Too Good to Be True' writes that the New York Mets could be up for sale as soon as 2010 due to the Madoff losses.

Uno Restaurant on the auction block

Sources confirmed to The Daily Deal that private equity firm Centre Partners Management hired an investment banker to consider options for Uno Restaurant Holdings.

Report: Bids for Travel Channel due Tuesday

NBC Universal, IAC/InterActiveCorp, Time Warner and Scripps Networks Interactive are interested in the Travel Channel and have till Tuesday to make a bid.

Times' new bidder for Globe: Platinum Equity

Platinum Equity reportedly has emerged as another bidder for The Boston Globe, but the Times seems to be in no rush to making a sale.

Lehman helped Watergate hit the auction block

PB Capital Corp. won the auction for The Watergate Hotel for $25 billion after its owners Monument Realty, had lost financing for a renovation from Lehman and in July defaulted on a separate loan.

BusinessWeek hits bad times, up for sale

With advertising revenues falling, McGraw-Hill has reportedly put BusinessWeek on the auction block.

Buyers may avoid AIG's ILF after plane crash

AIG's International Leasing Finance unit may have a harder time coming off the auction block after one of its planes crashed into the Indian Ocean.

Sara Lee gives buyout shops the cold shoulder

Sara Lee isn't looking for PE to acquire its household and personal-care business.

Banks vie for position on auction league tables

Goldman Sachs still leads the Auction Block league tables for 2009, but the competition is heating up.

Alibaba to pocket U.S. companies?

Chinese Internet company Alibaba is looking for acquisitions abroad, and the current economic downturn offers a ripe opportunity to purchase U.S. technology cheap.

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