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Time Warner will pay $241.5m for a 31 per cent stake in Central European Media Enterprises, a television group founded by cosmetics heir Ron Lauder. The deal is Time Warner's [...]

software Move fuels renewed bid speculation US group bought Tchenguiz holding The derivatives contract formerly held by Robert Tchenguiz in SCi Entertainment has been sold and in part picked up [...]

Liberty Media is considering swapping its shareholding in Time Warner for the dial-up business of AOL, John Malone said yesterday, raising the unexpected prospect of a competitive auction for the [...]

MEDIA Liberty Media is considering swapping its shareholding in Time Warner for the dial-up business of AOL, John Malone said yesterday, raising the unexpected prospect of a competitive auction for [...]

The Walt Disney Company will pay Rs8.1bn (Dollars 204m) to increase its stake in India's UTV Software Communications in one of the biggest investments yet by Hollywood in South Asia's [...]

NEW YORK -- SAC Capital and JanaPartners, the US hedge fund groups, have amassed an8.4 per cent stake inTD Ameritrade and are pushing the online brokerto pursue a mergerwith E*Trade [...]

Nearly two years after first taking a stake in the world's biggest media company, Carl Icahn, the veteran billionaire investor, has now profitably cashed in about Dollars 880m of his [...]

Warner Bros Entertainment, part of Time Warner, is taking a 10 per cent stake in SCi Entertainment, the game publisher behind Lara Croft, for Pounds 44.5m. SCi will issue 8.9m [...]

NEW YORK -- Carl Icahn, an activist investor, is hoping to set up a new fund to house his Dollars 1bn Time Warner investment in the coming weeks, potentially opening [...]

NEW YORK -- Time Warner yesterday took full control of Court TV, the cable channel specialising in trial coverage, by agreeing to buy out Liberty Media's 50 per cent stake [...]

NEW YORK -- The value of Carl Icahn's stake in Time Warner, the world's biggest media company, is back in the black following a rally in the US cable sector. [...]

NEW YORK and SAN FRANCISCO -- Google is close to sealing a significant victory in its escalating battle with Microsoft after reaching an unofficial agreement to ally itself more closely [...]

NEW YORK -- Google plans to pay Dollars 1bn for a5 per cent stake in AOL as part of a wide-ranging advertising deal with the Time Warner internet division, pushing [...]

NEW YORK -- Yahoo has initiated discussions with Time Warner about taking a stake in its AOL internet business, joining a growing list of potential bidders which includes Microsoft and [...]

Google, the internet search company, and Comcast, the US cable operator, have teamed up for negotiations to take a joint minority stake in Time Warner's AOL unit, write James Politi [...]

LONDON and NEW YORK -- A consortium that was considering a possible bid for ITV fell apart amid concerns about the size of the UK television broadcaster's pension fund deficit. [...]

The protracted wrangling between cable TV group Tele-Communications Inc (TCI) Pres John Malone and Time Warner head Gerald Levine has led to fears that the planned deal between the two firms may collapse. Under the plan, Time Warner would acquire TCI's 21% stake in Turner Broadcasting System (TBS), in exchange for stock. There has been much speculation about Malone's aims, and it has been suggested that he could be angling for a better bid from another party. The stake in TBS is a strong card in Malone's hand, since it confers effective control over boardroom voting at TBS.