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...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...He knows the company well, having worked as an adviser to AIG while at Evercore....
...(Financial Times) Softbank to buy majority of Nextel: The Japanese company has agreed to buy a 70% stake in US mobile telco Nextel Sprint, with a purchase of about $12bn of existing Sprint shares at a 27%...
...Sprint Nextel has 51m, while Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile has only 31m. In spite of some concern about assuming Alltel’s borrowings in such uncertain times, the risks seem manageable....
...Verizon Communications, Vodafone and Alltel all declined to comment....
...One intriguing detail (albeit a multi-billion dollar detail) accompanying Vodafone’s abortive work on a possible bid for its American partner, Verizon Communications, is that Vodafone has been pressing Verizon...
...The company is regarded as one of the best-run in the sector in contrast to the reputation of rivals such as Sprint, which is also believed to have been eyed by private equity investors....
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