DealZone Daily
Chocolate and macaroni cheese aside, a trio of tech deals to mull over:
* Google Inc will buy AdMob, one of the largest mobile advertising networks, for $750 million, widening its bet that cell phone advertising could become the Internet’s next-big money maker.
* Electronic Arts Inc acquires Playfish for $275 million as the maker of the “Madden NFL” series expands in the growing social gaming sector.
* And Cisco Systems Inc says shareholders holding just 9.37 percent of shares in Tandberg have accepted its $3 billion tender offer for the Norwegian videoconferencing company.
For more on these stories and the rest of the latest deal-related news from Reuters, click here.
And in the newspapers:
* London-headquartered private equity firm BC Partners will buy ATI Enterprises, a Texas-based operator of 24 educational campuses, for about $500 million, the Financial Times says.
* Turkey’s media group Dogan Yayin (DYHOL.IS), which is in a dispute over a record tax fine, denies a media report that five of its papers were being sold to Germany’s Axel Springer (SPRGn.DE).
* Morgan Stanley (MS.N) is close to investing $200-$300 million in Asian Infrastructure Pte, India’s Economic Times says, citing unnamed sources.
* Magna’s (MGa.TO) co-chief executive told a German paper the Austro-Canadian company was not looking to team up with another auto maker after failing to clinch Opel, and will instead focus on its supply business. Reuters story here.


