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Deals of the day — mergers and acquisitions

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The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1330 GMT on Monday:

** Telefonica said on Monday it had not received any indication of interest from AT&T, following a Spanish newspaper report that the government had halted a 70 billion-euro ($93 billion) offer from the U.S. company.

** Starboard Value LP, a large shareholder in Smithfield Foods Inc, urged the world’s largest pork producer to explore a breakup rather than go ahead with a planned $4.7 billion takeover by Chinese meat company Shuanghui International.

** Brookfield Asset Management Inc said it will sell its Longview Timber holdings in the U.S. Pacific Northwest to Weyerhaeuser Co for $2.65 billion, including assumption of debt, and will sell a nearby paper and packaging business to KapStone Paper and Packaging Corp for $1.025 billion.

** The chief executive of European aerospace firm EADS has ruled out another attempt to merge with Britain’s BAE Systems, saying that both companies had moved on after the failure of last year’s $45 billion deal.

** European Union antitrust regulators will give unconditional approval to IntercontinentalExchange’s (ICE) $8.2 billion offer for NYSE Euronext, two people familiar with the matter said on Monday.

** Private equity firm Cinven has sealed around 1 billion euros in financing from Deutsche Bank, RBC and UBS for its 1.5 billion euro ($1.99 bln) buyout of industrial ceramics firm CeramTec, banking sources said on Monday.

** Private equity firm Bain joined the fight for Norway’s Cermaq on Monday, aiming to cherry pick the fish farmer’s prize asset for $1.1 billion and putting pressure on Marine Harvest to up its hostile bid for the entire company.

** Johnson & Johnson said on Monday that it would buy Aragon Pharmaceuticals, a private company that is running a mid-stage clinical trial for a prostate cancer drug, for $650 million in cash upfront and a possible second payment of $350 million if it meets certain milestones.

** Etihad Airways said on Monday it had signed an initial agreement with the Serbian government over a possible equity investment in the country’s loss-making JAT Airways.

** United Arab Emirates has revived a proposal to merge its two main stock exchanges in a state-backed deal that could boost trade in the local market and attract more foreign investment to the Gulf state, sources familiar with the plan said. Talks on a potential merger between the Dubai Financial Market (DFM) and the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) have occurred on and off since at least 2010.

** German industrial conglomerate Siemens is shutting down the last of its solar energy businesses after it failed to find a buyer, the company said on Monday.

** Cheung Kong (Holdings) Ltd, controlled by Asia’s richest man Li Ka-shing, said it will buy Dutch waste processing firm RAV Water Treatment I B.V. for 943.68 million euros ($1.26 billion), in an overseas expansion drive that has targeted infrastructure assets offering steady recurring income.

** Qatar Holding, the investment arm of the Gulf state’s sovereign wealth fund, has sold its 10 percent stake in Porsche SE to the luxury carmaker’s family shareholders, four years after it first invested in the firm.

** Orchard Supply Hardware Stores Corp has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, court documents showed on Monday, with rival retailer Lowe’s Companies set to buy the majority of its assets for $205 million in cash.

** Spain’s CIE Automotive SA will buy a majority stake in the combined auto component unit of India’s diversified Mahindra Group for about $116 million to get access to new markets and supply networks.

** Mayanot Eden, best known for its Eden Springs office watercooler brand, agreed to sell its European and Israeli operations to New York-based private equity firm Rhone Capital LLC for 70 million euros ($93.4 million).

** Russia’s Rosneft will gain control of around 20.99 percent of share capital in Saras after it made an offer to increase its holding in the Italy’s refiner, Rosneft said on Monday.

** Abu Dhabi investment firm Waha Capital has acquired a 97-percent stake in a UAE healthcare company and plans to invest up to 250 million dirhams ($68.1 million) over three years in the fast-growing sector, its chief executive said on Sunday.

** France’s Eutelsat Communications SA and U.S. private equity firm KKR & Co are among the suitors to place first-round bids for Singapore Telecommunications Ltd’s Australian satellite unit, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said.

** New Zealand broadcaster MediaWorks Ltd was placed in receivership on Monday after its private equity owners and bankers failed to agree on a refinancing deal, but new owners have been lined up. Investors led by Australian businessman Rod McGeoch, a director of gaming company SkyCity Entertainment Group Ltd and chairman of Vantage Private Equity Ltd, are set to take over the company.

 

EU mergers and takeovers (June 14)

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JUNE 19

– U.S. technology services company IBM’s Italian unit to acquire a new company set up from a business owned by Unicredit Business Integrated Solutions S.c.p.a, part of Italian bank UniCredit S.p.A. (notified May 14/deadline June 19)

JUNE 20

– U.S. carrier Delta Air Lines to buy a 49 percent stake in British peer Virgin Atlantic (notified May 15/deadline June 20)

– Dell Chief Executive Michael Dell and private equity firm Silver Lake Partners to buy out personal computer maker Dell Inc (notified May 15/deadline June 20)

JUNE 24

– U.S. derivatives and exchange and clearinghouse operator IntercontinentalExchange Inc to buy New York Stock Exchange operator NYSE Euronext (notified May 17/deadline June 24)

– Private equity firm Triton to buy recycling company Befesa from Spanish renewable energy and infrastructure company Abengoa (notified May 17/deadline June 24/simplified)

JUNE 26

– Spanish book retailer Circulo, which is a joint venture between German media group Bertelsmann and Spanish company Planeta, to acquire joint control of its wholly-owned subsidiary book seller Yadican together with Spanish telecoms operator Telefonica (notified May 22/deadline June 26/simplified)

JUNE 27

– Trading house Argos to buy French energy product retailer Etablissements Joseph Wallach S.A.S (notified May 23/deadline June 27)

– Energy trading house Argos Group Holding B.V. to buy French petrol product retailer Etablissements Joseph Wallach S.A.S. (notified May 23/deadline June 27)

JUNE 28

– Fonds Stratsgique d’Investissement S.A., which is controlled by French investment fund Caisse des Depots et Consignations, to acquire joint control of shipping services provider CMA CGM together with industrial group Yildirim Holding A.S. and holding company Merit Corporation (notified May 24/deadline June 28 )

– Private equity firms Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital to acquire joint control of U.S. business software maker BMC Software Inc (notified May 24/deadline June 28/simplified)

– Investment bank Goldman Sachs and financial services company Thomas H. Lee Partners to acquire joint control of processed food producer CTI Foods (notified May 24/deadline June 28/simplified)

– Yamaha Motor Co Ltd and Kayaba Industry Ltd to set up a joint venture in Japan to make motorcycle suspension systems (notified May 24/deadline June 28/simplified)

JULY 2

– U.S. group General Electric Co to buy the aviation business of Italian plane components maker Avio from private equity fund Cinven and Italian defence group Finmeccanica (notified May 13/deadline extended to July 2 from June 18 after GE offered commitments)

– U.S. food and grain-handling companies ConAgra Foods , Cargill and CHS to combine their North American flour milling businesses to be called Ardent Mills (notified May 28/deadline July 2/simplified)

– Giant U.S. food and grain-handling companies ConAgra Foods Inc, Cargill and CHS Inc to combine their North American flour milling businesses into a new venture Ardent Mills, that would control more than a third of U.S. capacity (notified May 28/deadline July 2/simplified)

– French private equity firm PAI Partners to buy R&R Ice Cream from rival Oaktree Capital (notified May 28/deadline July 2/simplified)

JULY 4

– Norwegian telecoms provider Telenor to acquire Bulgarian mobile operator Cosmo Bulgaria Mobile EAD and telephony products retailer Germanos Telecom Bulgaria EAD from Greek telecoms company OTE (notified May 30/deadline July 4)

JULY 5

– U.S. diversified manufacturer Crane Co to buy U.S. manufacturer of electronic bill acceptors and transaction mechanisms MEI Conlux from private equity firms Bain Capital and Advantage Partners (notified May 31/deadline July 5)

– Shell to buy some liquified natural gas assets from Spanish oil company Repsol (notified May 31/deadline July 5/simplified)

JULY 8

– U.S. medical product maker Baxter International Inc to buy Swedish kidney dialysis product company Gambro (notified June 3/deadline July 8 )

JULY 9

– Private equity firm KKE to acquire indirect control of U.S. industrial machinery manufacturer Gardner Denver Inc (notified June 4/deadline July 9/simplified)

JULY 10

– Private equity firm Bain Capital to acquire sole control of German brakes maker FTE (notified June 5/deadline July 10/simplified)

JULY 12

– German agricultural cooperative BayWa to acquire joint control of German grain trading company Bohnhorst Agrarhandel (notified June 7/deadline July 12/simplified)

– Private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts to buy waters services supplier South Staffordshire plc (notified June 7/deadline July 12/simplified)

JULY 15

– Norwegian maritime classification firm Det Norske Veritas to merge with Hamburg-based peer Germanischer Lloyd (notified June 10/deadline July 15)

SEPT 3

– Greek carrier Aegean Airlines to buy Olympic Air (notified Feb. 28/deadline extended for the second time to Sept. 3 from April 23 after the Commission opened an in-depth investigation)

SEPT 6

– Swedish refiner Nynas to purchase certain assets from Royal Dutch Shell’s Harburg refinery (notified Feb. 19/deadline extended for the second time to Sept. 6 from Aug. 8 )

 

Deals of the day — mergers and acquisitions

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The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1330 GMT on Thursday:

** U.S.-based Royalty Pharma said on Thursday that it did not appear to have the backing of Elan shareholders in a vote that is set to decide the fate of its hostile bid of up to $8 billion for the Irish drug firm.

** Gannett Co Inc, the largest newspaper chain in the United States, agreed to pay $1.5 billion in cash for television company Belo Corp, with an aim to making broadcast a bigger part of the business than newspapers.

** Poland’s biggest bank PKO BP is not looking for more domestic deals after its $887 million purchase of the local arm of Sweden’s Nordea, it said on Thursday, leaving rivals to fight out an expected further consolidation in the sector.

** Indonesian conglomerate Bosowa Corp is set to be announced as the preferred buyer of a 30 percent stake in mid-size lender Bank Bukopin, worth about $250 million, two sources with direct knowledge of the auction said on Thursday.

** Clearwire Corp’s board urged shareholders on Wednesday to accept a tender offer from Dish Network Corp over an earlier deal with majority owner Sprint Nextel Corp to buy out the minority shareholders of the wireless service provider.

** French utility EDF could take a stake of up to 40 percent in Rio Tinto’s Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne aluminium plants in exchange for agreeing a discount on the electricity it supplies, financial daily Les Echos reported.

** British utility Centrica said it had bought a 25 percent stake in a venture licensed to explore for shale gas in northern England from Cuadrilla Resources and AJ Lucas for 40 million pounds ($62.8 million).

** Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev has been in talks with investors about selling his 4.5 percent stake in flagship carrier Aeroflot OAO, the tycoon was quoted as saying on Thursday by business daily Vedomosti.

** Rhoen-Klinikum’s owners unexpectedly voted to scrap a requirement for shareholders holding 90 percent of its capital to approve major strategic decisions, which could put the German hospital operator back onto Fresenius’s shopping list.

** State-run Korea Electric Power Corp (KEPCO) denied a local media report that it is planning to bid for a stake in European nuclear fuel producer Urenco. A KEPCO spokesman said KEPCO instead has been considering investing in the expansion of Urenco’s U.S. plant in the state of New Mexico.

** Abu Dhabi property firms Aldar Properties PJSC and Sorouh Real Estate said the two companies expect to close their state-backed merger by June 30, pending a ministerial resolution approving the deal.

** Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd said on Thursday it had ended merger talks with shipbuilding rival Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co Ltd and demoted its president, Satoshi Hasegawa, who supported the discussions.

 

Deals of the day — mergers and acquisitions

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The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1330 GMT on Wednesday:

** British mobile firm Vodafone has approached Kabel Deutschland about a bid for Germany’s biggest cable operator that could top 7 billion euros ($9.3 billion) and help fend off competition in its most important European market.

** India’s Apollo Tyres Ltd said it would buy U.S.-based Cooper Tire & Rubber Co for about $2.5 billion in a deal that would make it the world’s seventh-largest tire maker.

** Hedge funds that bet Severn Trent would agree to a Canadian-led takeover are reeling from losses after the water company refused to talk, casting further doubt on their money-making abilities in an anaemic M&A environment.

** Proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) has recommended Sprint Nextel Corp shareholders vote for SoftBank Corp’s revised offer, after the Japanese mobile operator sweetened its buyout terms.

** A majority of CP All Pcl shareholders approved a planned $6.6 billion acquisition of cash-and-carry wholesaler Siam Makro Pcl which is expected to be completed by the third-quarter of this year.

** DBS Group Holdings Ltd may review its planned acquisition of a stake in Indonesia’s PT Bank Danamon if the Singapore lender is allowed to buy only a 40 percent share, DBS’s chairman told Singapore’s Business Times newspaper.

** Japanese trading house Marubeni Corp is bidding for a 29 percent stake in Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto’s Coal & Allied unit, valued at an estimated $2 billion, two sources familiar with the process said.

** Australian satellite communications company NewSat has flagged its interest in Singapore Telecommunications Ltd’s A$2 billion ($1.88 billion) sale of its Australian unit, Optus Satellite.

** Oil sands developer Cenovus Energy Inc said on Tuesday that Surge Energy Inc will pay C$240 million ($236 million) for its properties in the Shaunavon tight oil field in Saskatchewan.

** Japan’s Orix Corp said it has agreed to buy a 25.7 percent stake in Bahrain-based insurer Mediterranean and Gulf Insurance and Reinsurance Company B.S.C (Medgulf) for a little over $200 million, the latest deal by a Japanese financial company seeking growth overseas amid weak prospects at home.

** Miners Rio Tinto and Glencore Xstrata have held early-stage talks to consider a plan that could combine thermal coal assets in Australia as they battle low prices and high costs, two sources familiar with the plan said.

** Commodities trader Gunvor said it plans to buy a minority stake in a new oil products terminal in Indonesia as part of a global buying spree to acquire physical assets and boost its footprint in Asia.

 

EU mergers and takeovers (June 11)

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JUNE 14

– Diversified U.S. manufacturer Honeywell International Inc. to acquire mobile computing device maker Intermec For $600 million (notified Feb. 15/deadline June 14)

JUNE 17

– U.S. media group Time Warner to acquire sole control of TV operator Central European Media Enterprises in which it currently holds a stake (notified May 8/deadline June 17)

– Private equity firm CVC to acquire sole control of German energy services company ista GmbH (notified May 8/deadline June 17/simplified)

JUNE 18

– U.S. group General Electric Co to buy the aviation business of Italian plane components maker Avio from private equity fund Cinven and Italian defence group Finmeccanica (notified May 13/deadline June 18 )

JUNE 19

– U.S. technology services company IBM’s Italian unit to acquire a new company set up from a business owned by Unicredit Business Integrated Solutions S.c.p.a, part of Italian bank UniCredit S.p.A. (notified May 14/deadline June 19)

– German investor Joh A Benckiser (JAB) to buy Dutch coffee and tea maker D.E. Master Blenders 1753 (notified May 14/deadline June 19/simplified)

JUNE 20

– U.S. carrier Delta Air Lines to buy a 49 percent stake in British peer Virgin Atlantic (notified May 15/deadline June 20)

– Dell Chief Executive Michael Dell and private equity firm Silver Lake Partners to buy out personal computer maker Dell Inc (notified May 15/deadline June 20)

JUNE 24

– U.S. derivatives and exchange and clearinghouse operator IntercontinentalExchange Inc to buy New York Stock Exchange operator NYSE Euronext (notified May 17/deadline June 24)

– Private equity firm Triton to buy recycling company Befesa from Spanish renewable energy and infrastructure company Abengoa (notified May 17/deadline June 24/simplified)

JUNE 26

– Spanish book retailer Circulo, which is a joint venture between German media group Bertelsmann and Spanish company Planeta, to acquire joint control of its wholly-owned subsidiary book seller Yadican together with Spanish telecoms operator Telefonica (notified May 22/deadline June 26/simplified)

JUNE 27

– Trading house Argos to buy French energy product retailer Etablissements Joseph Wallach S.A.S (notified May 23/deadline June 27)

– Energy trading house Argos Group Holding B.V. to buy French petrol product retailer Etablissements Joseph Wallach S.A.S. (notified May 23/deadline June 27)

JUNE 28

– Fonds Stratsgique d’Investissement S.A., which is controlled by French investment fund Caisse des Depots et Consignations, to acquire joint control of shipping services provider CMA CGM together with industrial group Yildirim Holding A.S. and holding company Merit Corporation (notified May 24/deadline June 28 )

– Private equity firms Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital to acquire joint control of U.S. business software maker BMC Software Inc (notified May 24/deadline June 28/simplified)

– Investment bank Goldman Sachs and financial services company Thomas H. Lee Partners to acquire joint control of processed food producer CTI Foods (notified May 24/deadline June 28/simplified)

– Yamaha Motor Co Ltd and Kayaba Industry Ltd to set up a joint venture in Japan to make motorcycle suspension systems (notified May 24/deadline June 28/simplified)

JULY 2

– U.S. food and grain-handling companies ConAgra Foods , Cargill and CHS to combine their North American flour milling businesses to be called Ardent Mills (notified May 28/deadline July 2/simplified)

– Giant U.S. food and grain-handling companies ConAgra Foods Inc, Cargill and CHS Inc to combine their North American flour milling businesses into a new venture Ardent Mills, that would control more than a third of U.S. capacity (notified May 28/deadline July 2/simplified)

– French private equity firm PAI Partners to buy R&R Ice Cream from rival Oaktree Capital(notified May 28/deadline July 2/simplified)

JULY 4

– Norwegian telecoms provider Telenor to acquire Bulgarian mobile operator Cosmo Bulgaria Mobile EAD and telephony products retailer Germanos Telecom Bulgaria EAD from Greek telecoms company OTE (notified May 30/deadline July 4)

JULY 5

– U.S. diversified manufacturer Crane Co to buy U.S. manufacturer of electronic bill acceptors and transaction mechanisms MEI Conlux from private equity firms Bain Capital and Advantage Partners (notified May 31/deadline July 5)

– Shell to buy some liquified natural gas assets from Spanish oil company Repsol (notified May 31/deadline July 5/simplified)

JULY 8

– U.S. medical product maker Baxter International Inc to buy Swedish kidney dialysis product company Gambro (notified June 3/deadline July  8 )

JULY 9

– Private equity firm KKE to acquire indirect control of U.S. industrial machinery manufacturer Gardner Denver Inc (notified June 4/deadline July 9/simplified)

JULY 10

– Private equity firm Bain Capital to acquire sole control of German brakes maker FTE (notified June 5/deadline July 10/simplified)

JULY 12

– Private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts to buy waters services supplier South Staffordshire plc (notified June 7/deadline July 12/simplified)

SEPT 3

– Greek carrier Aegean Airlines to buy Olympic Air (notified Feb. 28/deadline extended for the second time to Sept. 3 from April 23 after the Commission opened an in-depth investigation)

SEPT 6

– Swedish refiner Nynas to purchase certain assets from Royal Dutch Shell’s Harburg refinery (notified Feb. 19/deadline extended for the second time to Sept. 6 from Aug. 8 )

 

Media Sentiment, Inc. (MSEZ) Launches Www.Aheadsup.Com

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Media Sentiment, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: MSEZ) announces the launch of a new social media tool www.aheadsup.com which focuses on news and information that have value. www.aheadsup.com presents a great potential for people to participate in the process of sharing material news and information with like-minded individuals and corporations.

Marian Munz, MSEZ’s CEO, says “Search engines such as Google have defined the way people find information on the internet for some time now. Algorithms and robots are really good at automating the things we know. However, as social media tools such as Facebook or LinkedIn have shown, people can and do add a tremendous value to the process of discovery and rating of news and information, especially when that information brings critical value. The new infrastructure of the internet will have to have human participation via social networks along with modern search and curation technologies. As the mobile platforms from Apple Computer and Samsung become more and more prevalent, human interaction with information will be part of the daily life.”

There is a tremendous amount of news and information available on the internet and no easy way to filter valuable information from noise, not by one person, not even by one corporation. We believe that knowledge-savvy individuals and corporations from around the world, pulling together, should be able to create a valuable source of material news and information.

www.aheadsup.com allows users to create custom video and news channels, rate the sentiment of the news and share them with their friends in real-time. The tool also enables easy publishing of the channels on web sites and blogs around the web in such a way that one posting to the channel gets broadcasted in real-time to as many web sites/pages as the publisher has in his/her network.

The company intends to start marketing the tool and seeks potential strategic partnerships with other companies. Already a number of companies have opened dozens of accounts and started testing the tool.

For the near term, the company is planning to add new features such as real-time continuous updates and automatic feeds into Twitter for every post on aheadsup.com channels. Tools to automatically rate sentiment for Twitter and other news feeds will follow.

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The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1330 GMT on Friday:

** Royalty Pharma US Partners LP’s $6.4 billion bid for Irish drug firm Elan Corp Plc had been accepted by just 7.5 percent of the target company’s shareholders before the U.S. investment firm extended the closing date by just over two weeks on Thursday.

** Reliance Industries Ltd’s telecommunications unit will lease up to 45,000 mobile masts from Reliance Communications Ltd in a deal valued at more than 120 billion rupees ($2.1 billion) over the lifetime of the contract, the Indian companies said.

** Brazilian homebuilder Gafisa SA agreed to sell a 70 percent stake of its high-end Alphaville unit to private equity firms Blackstone Real Estate Advisors LP and Patria Investimentos Ltda for 1.4 billion reais ($657 million), according to a securities filing on Friday.

** Spain’s CaixaBank SA has sold a 3.7 percent stake in Carlos Slim’s Grupo Financiero Inbursa SAB de CV for 387 million euros ($511 million) to the Mexican billionaire’s family, part of a move to shed assets and shore up capital.

** Finnish stainless steel maker Outokumpu Oyj said bids received so far for its Italian plant, Acciai Speciali Terni, “have not been satisfactory”. The Terni site was valued at as much as $1 billion a year ago, but on Outokumpu’s books it now has a value of 560 million euros ($739 million), and could sell for less.

** China’s Dalian Wanda is in talks to buy British yachtmaker Sunseeker in the latest example of a Chinese company snapping up a foreign luxury brand. A company source confirmed a Financial Times report that Wanda was expected to complete a 300 million pound ($465 million) takeover by the end of the month.

** Italian businessman Luigi Zunino has submitted an offer to buy out troubled real estate company Risanamento SpA, two sources close to the matter said.

** Canada’s Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc has pulled out of a possible bid for a Serbian drug company Galenika Pharmaceuticals in the wake of its $8.7 billion purchase of contact lenses maker Bausch & Lomb.

Citing last months’s acquisition deal, as well as the hostility of local unions towards the purchase of Galenika, Valeant said it had decided not to follow up its letter of intent relating to the company’s privatisation.

 

Media Sentiment, Inc. (MSEZ) Launches Redesign For Www.Mediasentiment.Com

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Media Sentiment, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: MSEZ) is launching the redesigned web site at www.mediasentiment.com.

Marian Munz, MSEZ’s CEO states: “Strictly speaking, we created the media sentiment field in 2001 and registered the media sentiment trademark in 2006. In 2013, we are shaping a new field for social media sentiment so news and information that affects value is shared in real-time.”

There is a huge need for a resource that helps people to locate the news and information that affects value, in a timely manner. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal titled “A New Era for Do-It-Yourself Investing” points to the fact that “Many investors want to call the shots — while turning to tools and people for help as needed.”

We believe that there exists news or information that has a material impact on our day to day lives. Today that news exists online. We’ve made it our mission to find it, to mark it as materially valuable and to deliver it to the people who may be impacted by it.

Our mission: to create the most comprehensive resource for news and information that have value.

Online news and information come in abundance, in many forms and shapes. Finding the piece of news and information that matters, in a timely manner, takes time and expertise. Therefore, enabling people from around the world to find, rate, share and distribute valuable information is of outmost importance to us.

Our goal: to give a heads up that helps people to better manage their affairs.

Recent news reports showed the formidable valuations of social media companies, with Yahoo purchasing Tumblr, a social blogging site, for $1.1 Billion — an indication that web giants circle fast-growing startups.

Contact:
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American Diversified Holdings Developing Wireless Medical Secure Application Platform For 2013

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Medical Wireless Market To Reach $58 Billion In 2014

DEL MAR, CA – Technological advances, coupled with promises of lowered costs and improved customer care, are increasingly getting hospitals interested in wireless patient monitoring devices. According to ABI Research, 5.7 million patients will be monitored with a wireless medical device by 2014, compared with 320,000 today. This represents a $950 million market and a 770% compound annual growth rate.

American Diversified Holdings Corporation (PINKSHEETS: ADHC) has refocused its corporate direction and is in the processing of creating a secure mobile application platform in the mHealth arena specifically designed for the Apple iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and other mobile platforms including the Android platform developed by Google.

Management has been working with leading developers and expects to unveil products capable of generating significant revenue in the 2nd quarter of 2013. Remote Health Monitoring Systems, Electronic Medical Records and Personalized Medicine are the areas of the Health Care sector that ADHC’s team is currently addressing for the mobile applications market.

The latest report from market research firm Gartner indicated the Mobile Apps Markets is poised for continued growth for 2014 predicting 185 billion downloaded, for a total of $58 billion in revenue.

The healthcare industry is among the fastest growing handheld device markets. The total market for handheld devices in healthcare reached $8.8 billion in 2010, a 7% increase from 2009. The estimated market in the mobile health care sector are estimated to grow in line with the general market estimates.

“We are excited to be at the forefront of the development of secure mobile software that will aid in the collection, analyzing and presentation of data for the healthcare market. Our technology partners have been developing software in the security and data protection markets for over ten years and we look forward to taking that expertise into the mobile platform market. We are very optimistic that we can work with the Healthcare Industry and Healthcare providers to acquire content for the fast growing mobile platforms,” commented ADHC.

The App Store model has become the standard for all the smart phone platforms, with RIM, Microsoft, Palm, and Google each building a similar way for developers to make apps available, and for users to find them and pay for them. Developers will have to understand which platform’s App store is best to promote their App.

American Diversified Holdings Corporation is developing a platform for the Mobile Health Care Market as the medical profession gears up to go electronic not only for medical records but also for direct patient monitoring and information. ADHC’s mHealth Division will Focus on Mobile Health Care Applications for iPhone, iPad, Android and Other Mobile Devices. ADHC is developing applications for the iPhone, iPad, Android and Other Mobile Devices tailored for specific ailments and protocols to allow medical professionals to monitor patients, get instant feedback and constantly adjust treatments to allow greater flexibility and response time in meeting individual patient needs. mHealth or mobile Health is a term used for the practice of medical and public health, supported by mobile devices. The term is most commonly used in reference to using mobile communication devices, such as mobile phones for Health Services and information.

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This press release contains forward looking statements pursuant to the “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements include risks and uncertainties that may cause the company’s plans to change and are in no way intended to guarantee that the company will be successful in executing its plans. American Diversified Holdings common stock currently trades on the over-the-counter “Pink Sheets” under the symbol ADHC. This press release in no way constitutes any

recommendation regarding the securities of ADHC or its affiliates. Any person reading this press release is advised that this release should be considered in the light of all facts and circumstances regarding the business and financial condition and prospects of ADHC, and no inference has been made that this release contains all such information.

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EU mergers and takeovers (June 4)

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JUNE 6

– Swiss chocolate maker Barry Callebaut to buy the cocoa business of Singaporean group Petra Foods (notified April 26/deadline June 6)

– Austrian chemical company Borealis to buy French oil giant Total’s GPN fertiliser business and a majority stake in Belgium-based Rosier (notified April 26/deadline June 6)

JUNE 7

– Dutch staffing company Randstad to acquire some of Dutch peer USG People NV’s assets (notified April 29/deadline June 7)

JUNE 11

– Qatar Investment Authority and Qatar state-owned hotel group Kingdom Holding Company to acquire joint control of FRHI Holdings which owns hotels in Paris and Singapore (notified May 2/deadline June 11/simplified)

– Private equity firm KKR to acquire indirect control of French clothing retailer SMCP (notified May 2/deadline June 11/simplified)

– French construction group Vinci to buy Portuguese airports operator Aeroportos de Portugal(ANA) (notified May 2/deadline June 11)

JUNE 14

– Diversified U.S. manufacturer Honeywell International Inc. to acquire mobile computing device maker Intermec For $600 million (notified Feb. 15/deadline June 14)

JUNE 17

– U.S. media group Time Warner to acquire sole control of TV operator Central European Media Enterprises in which it currently holds a stake (notified May 8/deadline June 17)

– Private equity firm CVC to acquire sole control of German energy services company ista GmbH (notified May 8/deadline June 17/simplified)

JUNE 18

– U.S. group General Electric Co to buy the aviation business of Italian plane components maker Avio from private equity fund Cinven and Italian defence group Finmeccanica (notified May 13/deadline June 18 )

JUNE 19

– U.S. technology services company IBM’s Italian unit to acquire a new company set up from a business owned by Unicredit Business Integrated Solutions S.c.p.a, part of Italian bank UniCredit S.p.A. (notified May 14/deadline June 19)

– German investor Joh A Benckiser (JAB) to buy Dutch coffee and tea maker D.E. Master Blenders 1753 (notified May 14/deadline June 19/simplified)

JUNE 20

– U.S. carrier Delta Air Lines to buy a 49 percent stake in British peer Virgin Atlantic (notified May 15/deadline June 20)

– Dell Chief Executive Michael Dell and private equity firm Silver Lake Partners to buy out personal computer maker Dell Inc (notified May 15/deadline June 20)

JUNE 24

– U.S. derivatives and exchange and clearinghouse operator IntercontinentalExchange Inc to buy New York Stock Exchange operator NYSE Euronext (notified May 17/deadline June 24)

– Private equity firm Triton to buy recycling company Befesa from Spanish renewable energy and infrastructure company Abengoa (notified May 17/deadline June 24/simplified)

JUNE 26

– Spanish book retailer Circulo, which is a joint venture between German media group Bertelsmann and Spanish company Planeta, to acquire joint control of its wholly-owned subsidiary book seller Yadican together with Spanish telecoms operator Telefonica (notified May 22/deadline June 26/simplified)

JUNE 27

– Trading house Argos to buy French energy product retailer Etablissements Joseph Wallach S.A.S (notified May 23/deadline June 27)

– Energy trading house Argos Group Holding B.V. to buy French petrol product retailer Etablissements Joseph Wallach S.A.S. (notified May 23/deadline June 27)

JUNE 28

– Fonds Stratsgique d’Investissement S.A., which is controlled by French investment fund Caisse des Depots et Consignations, to acquire joint control of shipping services provider CMA CGM together with industrial group Yildirim Holding A.S. and holding company Merit Corporation (notified May 24/deadline June 28)

– Private equity firms Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital to acquire joint control of U.S. business software maker BMC Software Inc (notified May 24/deadline June 28/simplified)

– Investment bank Goldman Sachs and financial services company Thomas H. Lee Partners to acquire joint control of processed food producer CTI Foods (notified May 24/deadline June 28/simplified)

– Yamaha Motor Co Ltd and Kayaba Industry Ltd to set up a joint venture in Japan to make motorcycle suspension systems (notified May 24/deadline June 28/simplified)

JULY 2

– U.S. food and grain-handling companies ConAgra Foods , Cargill and CHS to combine their North American flour milling businesses to be called Ardent Mills (notified May 28/deadline July 2/simplified)

– Giant U.S. food and grain-handling companies ConAgra Foods Inc, Cargill and CHS Inc to combine their North American flour milling businesses into a new venture Ardent Mills, that would control more than a third of U.S. capacity (notified May 28/deadline July 2/simplified)

– French private equity firm PAI Partners to buy R&R Ice Cream from rival Oaktree Capital (notified May 28/deadline July 2/simplified)

JULY 4

– Norwegian telecoms provider Telenor to acquire Bulgarian mobile operator Cosmo Bulgaria Mobile EAD and telephony products retailer Germanos Telecom Bulgaria EAD from Greek telecoms company OTE (notified May 30/deadline July 4)

JULY 5

– Shell to buy some liquified natural gas assets from Spanish oil company Repsol (notified May 31/deadline July 5/simplified)

SEPT 3

– Greek carrier Aegean Airlines to buy Olympic Air (notified Feb. 28/deadline extended for the second time to Sept. 3 from April 23 after the Commission opened an in-depth investigation)

SEPT 6

– Swedish refiner Nynas to purchase certain assets from Royal Dutch Shell’s Harburg refinery (notified Feb. 19/deadline extended for the second time to Sept. 6 from Aug. 8 )