Read more acquisition stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/5089/acquisition.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 13:19:21 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73208/buffett-bets-on-recovery-buys-burlington-for-26b.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBerkshire Hathaway has agreed to buy up the 77.4% of railroad operator Burlington Northern Santa Fe it didn’t already own for $26 billion, in what would be Warren Buffett’s largest acquisition ever. “It’s an all-in wager on the economic future of the United States,” says Buffett. “I love those...http://www.newser.com/story/73208/buffett-bets-on-recovery-buys-burlington-for-26b.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 03 Nov 2009 8:41:13 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/69057/gm-to-sell-opel-to-canadas-magna.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAfter painfully drawn-out negotiations, General Motors’ board has agreed to sell its Opel unit to Canadian firm Magna International, maintaining a tie that will keep Opel a "a fully integrated part of GM's global product development organization," the company said. The German government, which earlier this year loaned Opel $2....http://www.newser.com/story/69057/gm-to-sell-opel-to-canadas-magna.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 10 Sep 2009 9:30:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65149/mickelson-looks-to-buy-waffle-house-franchise.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPhil Mickelson has made a bid for SouthEast Waffles, a group of 105 Waffle House restaurants in four southern states, the Tennessean reports. Mickelson’s GS Acquisitions offered to buy SouthEast Waffles out of bankruptcy for $20.2 million. Though neither Mickelson nor his two other partners at GS have any...http://www.newser.com/story/65149/mickelson-looks-to-buy-waffle-house-franchise.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 23 Jul 2009 18:08:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64578/music-industry-hunts-for-cash-in-pirate-bay-sale.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe music industry wants its money back from those copyright vigilantes at Pirate Bay, and now it sees a decent chance to get it, reports CNET. An industry trade group plans to go after the $3.6 million in damages awarded by a Swedish court now that a software company...http://www.newser.com/story/64578/music-industry-hunts-for-cash-in-pirate-bay-sale.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 16 Jul 2009 17:53:20 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63072/gm-saturn-dealers-split-on-playing-up-penske-name.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSaturn dealerships around the country have been using the brand’s planned acquisition by Roger Penske to attract customers, the Wall Street Journal reports. "People want to buy from someone they like," said the owner of a Saturn dealership in Wichita. But dealership owners nationwide have since received letters from GM...http://www.newser.com/story/63072/gm-saturn-dealers-split-on-playing-up-penske-name.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 29 Jun 2009 7:01:59 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60926/schwarzenegger-happy-to-see-hummer-go-to-china.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCalifornia Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger helped popularize the Hummer by driving one, but he's not worried that its days of American ownership are over, reports the Los Angeles Times . The gas-guzzler has come to symbolize Detroit's failure to innovate, and the brand's new Chinese owners will be able to double the...http://www.newser.com/story/60926/schwarzenegger-happy-to-see-hummer-go-to-china.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 04 Jun 2009 2:34:17 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60757/gm-strikes-hummer-deal.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGeneral Motors has announced a "tentative" plan to sell its Hummer brand to a buyer who could take control by the end of the third quarter, says the Wall Street Journal . The firm didn’t say who was buying it or for how much, but noted that the purchaser plans to...http://www.newser.com/story/60757/gm-strikes-hummer-deal.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 02 Jun 2009 7:21:58 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/56273/i-made-a-mistake-buying-tribune-co-zell.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSam Zell is famous for his business acumen. He made a near-psychic call to sell his office-property company for billions just months before the market tanked. But the magnate now tells Bloomberg another deal he made was as boneheaded, in retrospect, as the Equity Office Properties deal was prescient: buying...http://www.newser.com/story/56273/i-made-a-mistake-buying-tribune-co-zell.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 15 Apr 2009 15:11:24 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/55245/5-reasons-twitters-worth-1b-to-google.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGoogle will look like a twit if it doesn’t snap up Twitter, and Henry Blodget of Silicon Alley Insider gives 5 reasons it should part with $1 billion to do so: Search, Google’s bread and butter, is dwindling, and the company needs a new growth engine to energize the business....http://www.newser.com/story/55245/5-reasons-twitters-worth-1b-to-google.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 03 Apr 2009 16:06:36 CDT