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Liberty Media buys 27.3% in Charter for USD 2.62 bln
2013-03-20 09:01:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Liberty Media has agreed to buy a 27.3 percent stake in cable company Charter Communications for USD 2.617 billion. The company controlled by John Malone will pay USD 95.50 per share to acquire 26.9 million shares and 1.1 million warrants from Charter's shareholders Apollo Management, Oaktree Capital Management and Crestview Partners. Liberty expects to fund the purchase with a combination of cash on hand and new loan arrangements. The deal should close early in Q2. Liberty Media will have the right to four seats on the Charter board after the acquisition. Chairman Malone, Liberty Media CEO Gregory Maffei, Liberty Global CTO Nair Balan, and Michael Huseby, CFO of Barnes & Noble, are expected to take up the seats, replacing Stan Parker, Darren Glatt, Bruce Karsh and Edgar Lee. Liberty Media also agreed to not increase its stake in Charter above 35 percent until January 2016 and 39.99 percent thereafter.
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Disney buys $3.5M in REDD credits from rainforest conservation project in Peru
2013-03-20 06:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The Walt Disney Company has purchased $3.5 million dollars' worth of carbon credits generated via rainforest conservation in Peru, reports Point Carbon. Disney bought 437,000 VCUs (verified carbon units) issued by the Alto Mayo Initiative, a project that aims to protect 2.8 million hectares of tropical forest in northeastern Peru. Alto Mayo is a joint initiative run by the Peruvian government and Conservation International. The credits are generated by reducing emissions from deforestation...
Portland's Erickson Air-Crane buys Evergreen Helicopters for $250 million
2013-03-20 05:04:47| Air Courier - Topix.net
McMinnville-based Evergreen International Aviation has sold its helicopter company to Portland's Erickson Air-Crane Inc.
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Microsoft buys analytics firm Netbreeze, readies CRM updates
2013-03-20 01:03:09| CNET News.com
Microsoft has acquired social-monitioring analytics vendor Netbreeze and is readying the next two updates to its Dynamics CRM platform, officials announce at the Convergence conference. [Read more]
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Weingarten Realty Buys Floridas Sea Ranch Centre for $18M
2013-03-19 19:07:00| National Real Estate Investor
Sea Ranch Centre was completed in 1966 and partially redeveloped in 1996 and 2005. read more
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