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RBI Sale At Risk Of Falling Through As Bidding Price Drops To $1.7 billion

Reed Elsevier's ( NYSE: RUK ) troubled attempt to sell-off its UK B2B division Reed Business Information appears to be in big trouble with the news that bids for the company since August have fallen about a half-million dollars, according to Bloomberg . Two unidentified sources close to the deal told the news service the bids have dropped to about $1.7 billion (£97 million) from $2.3 billion (£1.3...

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Boycott of Reed-Elsevier

You may have heard of Reed-Elsevier? They own academic journals, many. It's worst in biology and medicine. It's SOP in the publishing industry to exploit artists and fans, yes, but these guys are targeting libraries. Not to mention their rather shady past... "The defence industry is necessary for upholding national security, for the preservation of democratic values and supporting the ever widening...

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RBI Sell-off Stalls Again With $180m Finance Shortfall

Will Reed Business Information ever get the deal it wants? The sale of the B2B arm of magazine publisher Reed Elsevier ( NYSE: RUK ) NYSE: RUK )"> ( NYSE: RUK ) , one of the biggest and most highly leveraged media deals around, looks increasingly unlikely as the New Scientist and Variety publisher struggles to raise enough money in these troubled times for credit markets. We learned in August that...

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Reed's finance offer seen falling short

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The financing package offered by Reed Elsevier in the sale of its trade publication unit might come in smaller than expected, causing bidders to re-examine their offers, a source familiar with the matter said on Monday.

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Variety Fires Half The NYC Sales Office; Reed Elsevier Info's Bidders Down To 3

I'm told that Variety president and publisher Neil Stiles is "realigning" the NYC sales office. Insides say he's let three people go, which is half the sales force there. Plans are to replace one of the sales people and to hire a senior manager to improve what was described to me as "a growing lack of adult [...]

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Reed's RBI Sell-Off In The Balance? A Victim Of Credit Crunch?

When Reed Elsevier ( NYSE: RUK ) last spoke on the subject, it told the market it hoped to sell off its Reed Business Information (RBI) B2B publishing unit as early as October. But that was August - in the intervening period, a little thing has happened called "the credit crunch". Could the crunch munch the planned divestment, which Reed announced a whole seven months ago? paidContent:UK has been...

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Media Week 39

News on the Reed Elsevier sale of the magazine group. The set-up for the deal may be unravelling. FT : The RBI sale, one of the few live auctions in the media sector, is being watched closely as a bellwether for companies' ability to dispose of assets and private equity's ability to get deals done in tighter credit markets. Bidders will now have to look further than the lending consortium and secure...

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Several management initiatives by LexisNexis Group to increase patenting effectiveness

An article from IP Law & Bus., Vol. 6, Sept. 2008 at 41, extols the changes the chief legal officer of LexisNexis, Kenneth Thompson, instituted after he took over in 2005. The division of Reed Elsevier soon ???had a patent...

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Need to know: Sony Ericsson ... Reed Elsevier ... AG Barr

US financial crisis Henry Paulson, the US Treasury Secretary, and Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the US Federal Reserve, urged congressional leaders to move swiftly to approve Washington’s $700 billion (£377.6 billion) bailout plan for Wall Street. They sounded warnings of dire consqeuences should Congress fail to approve their rescue scheme, aimed at quelling the global financial convulsions. Wrangling...

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Reed sale enters third round

The auction for Reed Elsevier's business information division moved into its third round yesterday as several bidders were knocked out of the running. Of the larger...

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A Monopoly Over Public Records Research?

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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FTC Challenges Reed Elsevier’s Proposed $4.1 Billion Acquisition of ChoicePoint, Inc.

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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US approval for Reed's $4bn bid

Reed Elsevier, the Anglo-Dutch publisher, has received the regulatory go-ahead from the US Federal Trade Commission for its proposed $4.1bn (£2.3bn) acquisition of...

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FTC Challenges Reed Elsevier's Proposed $4.1 Billion Acquisition of ChoicePoint, Inc.

News release: "The Federal Trade Commission today issued a complaint charging that Reed Elsevier Inc.'s (Reed Elsevier) proposed $4.1 billion...

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Reed Elsevier's ChoicePoint acquisition cleared

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 .