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March 11, 2010

Cable firm plots EU’s biggest IPO in two years

German cable company Kabel Deutschland has initiated plans for an IPO – expected to be Europe’s largest in more than two years.

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February 16, 2010

Discarded IPO marks BSNL’s sinking fortunes

News of BSNL’s abandoned IPO should come as no surprise to anyone who’s been tracking the sinking fortunes of a company once seen as a national champion.
 

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February 9, 2010

Axiata Bangladesh finalizes IPO plans

As share market confidence continues to return, two leading mobile operators in developing Asia – Axiata Bangladesh and Vietnam’s MobiFone – prepare for local IPOs.
 
Axiata Bangladesh’s chairman, Ghazzali Sheikh Abdul Khalid, is due to arrive in Dhaka today to di

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December 2, 2009

Telstra seeks IPO for SouFun

Telstra plans to list its Chinese online property portal SouFun in an IPO that could value the company at $1 billion.
 
Telstra, which paid $254 million for a 51% stake in the business in August 2006,

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November 20, 2009

AOL to cut 2,500 jobs prior to spinoff

AOL has announced it will cut nearly 2,5000 employees – around one third of its workforce – as it prepares to spin off from its parent Time Warner.
 
The company will first ask for volunteers to take a severance package, but will resort to layoffs if it does not get the required numbers, the New York Times

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November 18, 2009

AOL breaks up with Time Warner on Dec 9

Time Warner has revealed the details of the AOL spin-off confirming that AOL and its 7,000 employees will split from Time Warner on December 9.
 
The split marks the end of a decade long, costly experiment that never quite found its point of synergy.

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November 10, 2009

Maxis expects up to $3.4b from today’s IPO

Filed under: 2G and 2.5G, 3G, Daily News, IPO, Malaysia, Maxis, Public, Wireless Access — fmmonteverde @ 6:04 am

Malaysia’s Maxis has estimated it will make up to $3.4 billion from its debut today thanks to strong institutional demand.
 
The IPO comes two years after the company was taken private by Ananda Krishnan’s Binariang group.
 
Principal IPO adviser CIMB Investment Bank

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October 29, 2009

IPOs: SingTel mulls Optus sale, Maxis sets $3.4b target

Singapore Telecom is considering a public listing of a minority stake in wholly-owned Australian business Optus, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

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August 31, 2009

AT&T approaches BSNL to re-enter Indian mobile market

Filed under: AT&T, BSNL, IPO, India, Mobile, PSE, USA, mobile operator — Editor @ 6:51 pm

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: AT&T, the USA based mobile operator, has reportedly approached the Indian state run telco BSNL for making an investment in the telco in order to re-enter the world’s fastest growing mobile market.
The possibilities of the roping in of government are not clear yet, though the sources unveil that an announcement will be a pre-IPO [...]

July 6, 2009

BSNL is ready to offer stake to foriegn investor (India)

Filed under: BSNL, Employee Union, Foriegn Investor, GP, Governement, IPO, India, Mobile, Plan, Stake — Editor @ 9:59 am

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: BSNL, the state owned telco is ready to offer its stake to a foriegn firm, if the proposed IPO does not work out for the operator, Chairman of BSNL, Kuldeep Goyal reportedly said.
It was in 2008, the BSNL has approved the disinvestment of its 10% stake through an IPO, which was likely to raise [...]

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