PRODIGY TO BUY RIVAL FLASHNET COMMUNICATIONS
Date: 09 November 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Prodigy Communications Corp acquires rival FlashNet Communications for about $124 million in stock (S)
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ARCH COMMUNICATIONS TO TAKE OVER PAGING NETWORK
Date: 09 November 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Arch Communications Group, paging-service company, acquires larger rival Paging Network Inc for about $1.36 billion in stock and assumed bank debt; Paging Network warns that it might file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection if enough investors do not agree to debt conversion (S)
MIDCOAST ENERGY SETS DEAL TO ADD KANSAS PIPELINE
Date: 09 November 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Midcoast Energy Resources agrees to buy Kansas Pipeline Co for about $190 million in cash (S)
BETTING ON A TURNAROUND
Date: 09 November 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Nissan Motor Co chief operating officer Carlos Ghosn says company's executive committee, including Ghosn, will resign if Nissan fails to post profit in year ending in March 2001; photo (S)
CUT IN JAPANESE GROWTH
Date: 09 November 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Japan's Economic Planning Agency says economy grew more slowly than previously indicated between April and June, suggesting large amounts of government spending are still needed to keep recovery alive; economy expanded one-tenth of 1 percent in quarter, less than two-tenths of 1 percent initially reported two months ago (S)
N.T.T. SHARES PRICED
Date: 09 November 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Japan's Finance Ministry prices its sale of 952,000 shares in Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp at 1.66 million yen each, raising up to 1.56 trillion yen, or $14.7 billion; stake in former government monopoly will fall to 53 percent from 59 percent (S)
OFFER FOR EXPLOSIVES MAKER
Date: 09 November 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Scandinavian buyout firm Industri Kapital plans to offer 5.3 billion kroner, or $670 million, for Dyno ASA, world's largest second-largest maker of explosives (S)
Priceline Will Add Phone Calls to Its Menu
Date: 09 November 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Priceline.com says it will soon add long-distance telephone calls to its services; beginning in first quarter of 2000, US customers will able to name price for domestic and international calls from their home phones; first carrier to sign up is Net2Phone Inc (S)
Satellite TV Bill Advances in Congress
Date: 09 November 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
House and Senate negotiators agree on legislation aimed at giving satellite television companies like Hughes Electronics' DirecTV assistance in competing with cable TV; bill would clear way for satellite TV companies to add local TV signals to their service immediately, matching what cable competitors provide (S)
Cigarette Company Considers Libel Suit
Date: 09 November 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp conducts poll of theatergoers who saw film, 'The Insider,' to help decide whether to file libel suit against Walt Disney Company, film's distributor; film is based on efforts of real whistleblower, Jeffrey S Wigand, to go public with damaging information about tobacco industry (S)