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Robert Ambrogi's LawSites (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
Not quite a monopoly, but darn close. The now-final $4.1 billion acquisition by Reed Elsevier -- parent of LexisNexis -- of ChoicePoint Inc. would have given Reed control over 80 percent of the $60 million market for the sale of electronic public records to U.S. law enforcement agencies. Last week, the Federal Trade Commission moved to alleviate the potential anti-competitive effects by requiring Reed...
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
FTC Challenges Reed Elsevier’s Proposed $4.1 Billion Acquisition of ChoicePoint, Inc. The Federal Trade Commission today issued a complaint charging that Reed Elsevier Inc.’s (Reed Elsevier) proposed $4.1 billion acquisition of ChoicePoint Inc. (ChoicePoint) would be anticompetitive and in violation of the antitrust laws, as it would combine the two largest providers of electronic public [...]
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paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
The European Commission has cleared Sony's ( NYSE: SNE ) acquisition of BMG's 50 percent stake in their Sony-BMG JV, creating Sony Music Entertainment. The EC ruled the acquisition "would not lead to any horizontal overlaps in the music recording markets, examined at the creation of Sony BMG, as Sony has no other music recording activities in the European Economic Area". The 2004 merger was a long-running...
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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Anglo-Dutch publisher Reed Elsevier said on Tuesday it had received regulatory clearance from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for its proposed $4.1 billion (2.28 billion pounds) acquisition of ChoicePoint .
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Reed Elsevier said Tuesday that iit has received regulatory clearance from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for the acquisition of ChoicePoint Inc. Completion of the transaction is expected to take place on Sep. 19. Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
ALPHARETTA, Ga., Sept. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - The staff of the
Federal Trade Commission (the "FTC") on Monday notified ChoicePoint Inc.
(NYSE: ) that, subject to the FTC's Order of September 15, 2008, the FTC
has granted termination of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino
Antitrust Improvement Act of 1976, as amended, with respect to the proposed
acquisition of ChoicePoint by Reed Elsevier...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
ALPHARETTA, Ga., Sept. 2 -- The staff of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ("CFIUS") has notified ChoicePoint Inc. (NYSE: CPS) that it has concluded a review of the proposed acquisit...
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The Atlanta Business Chronicle (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
ChoicePoint Inc. scored a perfect 100 percent on its treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees, consumers and investors for the sixth consecutive year. (KO) (CCE) (NWL) (STI) (UPS)
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
ALPHARETTA, Ga., Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ChoicePoint (NYSE:
CPS) today earned the top rating of 100 percent in the 2009 Corporate
Equality Index (CEI), an annual survey administered by the Human Rights
Campaign Foundation. This survey represents the sixth consecutive year that
ChoicePoint has achieved a perfect score -- a record unmatched by any other
Georgia company.
The Corporate Equality...
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Xorte latest economic news (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
Reported incidents of mortgage fraud in the U.S. increased by 42 percent in the first quarter of 2008 from a year ago, according to a new report released today by the Mortgage Asset Research Institute, a ChoicePoint(R) company.
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Crime & Federalism (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
This is interesting: ChoicePoint is one of the nation's leading information services companies. We believe you should have free access to your information and are providing you with an enhanced search of your public records. Access to your public records is provided free to each consumer on a yearly basis. What is a public records search? A national search of...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
RESTON, Va., Aug. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Mortgage Asset
Research Institute (MARI(SM)), a ChoicePoint (NYSE: ) company, today
announced the release of the MARI Loan Fraud Alert Service Pro (LFAS Pro).
MARI LFAS Pro, with its patent pending technology, assists lenders in
discovering fraudulent loan applications prior to funding through a
combination of comparative loan application analysis and...
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Bits (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
Traditional data collectors like ChoicePoint disapprove of the new generation of online records sites like CriminalSearches.com.
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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
The M & A Researcher submits: ChoicePoint Inc. (CPS) has disclosed the following details of the CFIUS' Exon-Florio review status of its merger with Reed Elsevier as part of its Q2 results announcement: After being informed by the Department of the Treasury that CFIUS would not be able to complete its review within the review period allotted, the parties withdrew their Notice on May 5, 2008, and re-filed...
