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Qatar Foundation buys Bharti stake

2013-05-03 07:49:35| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

India's largest mobile phone operator, Bharti Airtel, agrees to sell a 5% stake to Qatar Foundation Endowment as it looks to strengthen its finances.

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Duke-American Transmission Buys Stake in 84-Mile California Transmission Line

2013-05-01 19:43:00| Transmission & Distribution World

Duke-American Transmission has completed its previously announced purchase from Atlantic Power of 72 percent of the capacity of Path 15 an 84-mile, 500-kV transmission line in central California. read more

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Alibaba buys stake in China's Weibo

2013-04-30 03:07:27| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Alibaba, China's biggest e-commerce group, buys an 18% stake in Weibo, China's Twitter-like service, as it looks to tap into the social media sector.

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Alibaba buys 18% stake in Weibo for USD 586 mln

2013-04-29 15:38:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba has acquired an 18 percent stake in Chinese microblogging service Weibo for USD 586 million. Alibaba bought the stake as part of a broader alliance with Weibo's owner Sina to develop new e-commerce and marketing services over the social network. Sina, which runs China's biggest web portal, will cooperate with Alibaba in the areas of user account connectivity, data exchange, online payment and online marketing, among other things, as well explore new business models for social commerce based on the interactions of the hundreds of millions of users on Weibo and Alibaba's e-commerce platforms. The strategic alliance is expected to generate USD 380 million in advertising and social commerce services revenues for Weibo over the next three years. Alibaba also receives an option to increase its stake in Weibo to 30 percent in future.

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