The soda rivalry continues as Coca-Cola takes a page out of PepsiCo's playbook. The Coca-Cola Co. (NYSE:
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By Jason Simpkins Associate Editor After a disappointing string of failed takeovers, CNOOC Ltd. (ADR: CEO) has reignited its foreign expansion...
By Mike Caggeso Associate Editor Swiss pharmaceutical kingpin Novartis AG (NVS) has agreed to buy Nestle SA's (PINK: NSRGF) 77% stake in U.S. eye...
By Jason Simpkins Associate Editor What would have been one of the biggest acquisitions of the now moldering corporate buyout boom looks to be...
By Mike CaggesoAssociate Editor Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata said he would like to buy a stake in luxury sports car Ferrari, a unit of Torino,...
By Mike Caggeso Associate Editor Diebold Inc. (DBD), a top maker of voting machines and automated teller machines, rejected an unsolicited $2.63...
By Mike Caggeso Associate Editor Staples Inc.'s (SPLS) $3.7 billion (2.5 billion euro) takeover offer for Dutch rival Corporate Express N.V. (CXP)...
By Jason Simpkins Associate Editor Google Inc. (GOOG) didn't waste any time before weighing in on Microsoft Corporation's (MSFT) takeover bid for...
From Staff Reports With its $44.6 billion hostile bid for Internet search pioneer Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO), software giant Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is poised...
By Jason Simpkins Associate Editor Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), the world's biggest software maker, has made an unsolicited $44.6 billion bid for search...
By Jason Simpkins Associate Editor A highly publicized rogue trader scandal has again made Societe Generale (SCGLY) the target of speculation about a...
Jason Simpkins Associate Editor Carlsberg A/S and Heineken N.V. (HINKY) have upped their offer to buy Scottish & Newcastle PLC for a fourth time,...
By Jason Simpkins Associate Editor After having its first takeover proposal rejected by Rio Tinto PLC (RTP), BHP Billiton Ltd. (BHP) appears poised...
Editor's Note: This is the 13th Installment of an Ongoing Series Highlighting the Global Investing Outlook for 2008. Elvis might be dead. But the...
By William Patalon III Managing Editor Money Morning/The Money Map Report Garmin Ltd. (GRMN), the largest U.S. maker of satellite-navigation devices,...
By Martin Hutchinson Contributing Editor If you bought Rio Tinto PLC (RTP) following my recommendation in November's Money Map Report, you've made...
From Staff Reports TomTom NV, Europe's largest maker of navigation devices used in automobiles, has boosted its bid for digital-mapping company Tele...
By William Patalon III Managing Editor Money Morning The seesaw ride continues for shareholders of navigation-device heavyweight Garmin Ltd., (GRMN)....