UniCredit launches €10b bid for Banco BPM
UniCredit surprised markets on Monday by launching a €10 billion ($11 billion) all-share bid for Banco BPM,…
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Egypt plans to launch mineral exploration international bid in Q4
Egypt is planning to launch an international bid in this year's fourth quarter (Q4) to inspect and explore mineral…
Egypt unveils winners in oil, gas exploration bid round
Egypt announced on Tuesday the winners of an international bid round for oil and gas exploration, with a total of…
EU court rejects Egypt’s Mubarak bid to end European sanctions
An EU court on Wednesday rejected a bid by Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak to lift a freeze on his assets in…
Egypt to launches first oil, gas exploration bid in Red Sea
Egypt will launch the first international tender for oil and gas exploration in the Red Sea next month, a petroleum…
Abraaj fund unit gets only $1 bid from Actis
Abraaj Group’s fund unit, which used to manage about $14 billion at its peak and was one of the most influential…
Shell to complete deep-water oil, gas exploration in Egypt
Royal Dutch Shell Plcis will resume exploration for oil and gas in Egypt’s deep-water of the Mediterranean Sea,…
Russia sets stage for U.N. veto of western bid to call out Iran
Russia has laid the groundwork for a likely veto on Monday of a British, U.S. and French bid for the United…
Egypt’s Sisi launches presidential bid after biggest rival arrested
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi officially launched his bid for a second term in office on Wednesday,…
Egypt’s Hamdeen Sabahi signs endorsement for Khaled Ali’s presidential…
Former presidential candidate and leftist figure Hamdeen Sabahi has signed an election endorsement in favour of…
Construction of Cairo metro’s fourth line infrastructure to begin in December
Egypt’s Ministry of Transportation approved on Sunday a bid by Japanese-Egyptian consortium Tizi-Orascom to carry…
Twitter to double tweet limit to 280 characters
Twitter announced Tuesday it would double the limit for tweets to 280 characters, a bid to draw in more users and…
Source: Egypt extends bid deadline for 12-cargo LNG tender
Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS) has extended the bid submission deadline for liquefied natural gas…
Western Digital offers to exit Toshiba chip bid for better joint-venture terms
Western Digital has offered to drop out of a bid for Toshiba's lucrative semiconductor business in return for a…
Theresa May’s bid for stronger Brexit hand at stake in UK election
British Prime Minister Theresa May faces the voters on Thursday in an election she called to strengthen her hand…
Erdogan says would be easier if EU rejects Turkey bid
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday lashed out again in the diplomatic row with the European Union…
Egypt looks for gold tenders success as two companies won’t bid
Egypt is looking for international gold mining companies to participate in its first exploration tender since 2009…
Ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wont buy Twitter
Steve Ballmer told CNBC Friday he never sought to buy Twitter — responding to speculation that he and fellow…
EU antitrust regulators seek to know if LinkedIn data is unique
EU antitrust regulators want to know whether LinkedIn's data is unique, two people familiar with the matter told…
Microsoft seeks EU approval for LinkedIn buy
Microsoft sought EU antitrust approval on Friday for its $26 billion bid for social network LinkedIn, a spokesman…
Turkey dismisses more than 2,000 police officers over coup bid
Turkey issued two decrees under emergency rule on Wednesday in which it dismissed more than 2,000 police officers…
State-owned Ganope issues global tender for oil, gas drilling in Suez, Sinai
Egypt's state-owned Ganoub El-Wadi Petroleum Holding Company (Ganope) issued a new international tender for oil and…
European shares advance as Ryanair and William Hill surge
European stocks rose on Monday, with low-cost airline Ryanair climbing after it issued a bullish outlook while…
ExxonMobil launches bidding war for InterOil in PNG gas push
ExxonMobil Corp has made a bid worth at least $2.2 billion for InterOil Corp and its stake in a rich Papua New…
Siemens CEO says not interested in robot maker Kuka
Siemens has no interest in becoming a white knight for German robot maker Kuka, which is the target of a 4.5…
Verizon to submit $3 billion bid for Yahoo’s web assets
Verizon Communications Inc plans to submit a second-round bid of around $3 billion for Yahoo Inc's core internet…
Pfizer approaches Medivation about potential takeover
Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) has approached U.S. cancer drug maker Medivation Inc (MDVN.O) to express interest in an…
Yen recovers, data shows outright swing against dollar
The yen recovered from a walloping at the end of last week on Monday, with investors focusing on a meeting of the…
Daily Mail parent in talks with private equity for Yahoo bid
The parent company of the British newspaper, the Daily Mail, is in talks with several private equity firms about a…
Saudi retailer Panda wins bid to launch commercial chain in Egypt’s Qalyubia
Saudi-based Panda Retail Company won the bid to establish large commercial chain in Egypt's Qalyubia governorate on…
Obama to visit London in bid to keep UK in the EU
U.S. President Barack Obama will come to London in April and urge British voters to back continued membership of…
Qatar, China in $6.4 billion battle for Australian freight giant- Reuters
Canada's Brookfield Asset Management (BAMa.TO) is planning a fresh $6.4 billion bid for Australian port and rail…
ChemChina makes $43 billion agreed bid for Switzerland’s Syngenta
China's state-owned ChemChina will make an agreed $43 billion bid for Swiss seeds and pesticides group Syngenta,…
Arab Contractors quits Egypt’s Airport City project bid
Egypt-based leading construction firm, Arab Contractors has decided to withdraw from a competition to implement…
North, South Korea on alert as talks resume in bid to end standoff
Top aides to the leaders of North and South Korea resumed talks on Sunday after negotiating through the night in…
New Suez Canal opening organiser to promote Egypt for three years
J. Walter Thompson JWT, the world’s best-known marketing communications brand, has won a bid to promote Egyptian…
Egypt Halts Cotton Imports In Bid To Boost Local Crop
Egypt has halted all cotton imports in a bid to assist the production and marketing of the local crop, the…
Vivendi in Exclusive Talks to buy Orange’s Dailymotion
French media group Vivendi has entered exclusive talks to buy 80 percent of video-sharing website Dailymotion from…
Shell to buy BG for $70 billion
Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) said on Wednesday it had agreed to buy BG Group (BG.L) for 47 billion pounds ($70…
FedEx to buy TNT to expand Europe Deliveries
FedEx Corp (FDX.N) launched a 4.4 billion euros ($4.8 billion) bid to buy Dutch package delivery company TNT…