The assets it could sell include a 17% stake in Spain's Airtel, a stake in a French mobile telephone company, as well as its stake in Japan Telecom.
Masa Son will also likely be able to get in on the action due to his 30% stake in Alibaba Group and his 40% stake in Yahoo!
One reason Mail.ru has been so attractive is not only its 75% share of the growing market for internet users in Russia, according to Comscore, but its 2.38% stake in Facebook, 1.47% stake in Zynga Game Network (the company behind the social networking games Farmville and Mafia Wars) and 5.13% of Groupon, the online voucher company that Forbes recent featured on its cover as the fastest growing company ever.
Buffett made a significant cut in his stake in Ameriprise Financial by 52.7% to 661, 742 shares from 1.4 million shares.
Buffett made a significant cut in his stake in Ameriprise Financial (nyse: AMP - news - people ) by 52.7% to 661, 742 shares from 1.4 million shares.
For example, late in 2012, it announced the acquisition of a majority stake in Chinese luxury jewelry brand, Qeelin, and last month announced it acquired a majority stake in the luxury designer brand, Christopher Kane.
Chesapeake Energy announced on Monday it would put all its 487, 000 acres in the Fayetteville Shale, which current production of 415 million cubic feet of natural gas equivalent per day, its 25.8% stake in Frac Tech, and its 20% stake in Chaparral Energy.
It holds a 38% stake in the Sadiola Gold Mine and a 40% stake in the Yatela Gold Mine.
At the moment, Yahoo consists of its core business that new CEO Marissa Mayer has been focusing on improving, its 35% stake in Yahoo Japan, and its remaining 24% stake in Alibaba Group.
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They very much have a stake in the system, and they very much have a stake in the economic future of this country.
Total (TOT) took a majority stake in SunPower in the middle of 2011, and recently upped that stake in exchange for SunPower buying its European-based solar company Tenesol.
JPMorgan Chase bought a majority stake in Highbridge Capital , and Lehman Brothers acquired a 20% stake in Ospraie Management .
Zapata, of course, also has a 40 percent stake in food-services operation Viskase Companies and a 60 percent stake in fish-oil processor Omega Protein.
The new company will include News Corp's Asian star TV company, its 37.5% stake in Britain's BSkyB, its south American assets and its stake in US interactive TV company GemStar.
In the fall of 2008, as the financial crisis raged, Highmount and Hull Capital started talking about a deal that would see Highmount exchange its stake in AJW Qualified Partners II, an NIR fund, for a stake in PIPE Equity, court documents say.
Eircom formed a wholly owned subsidiary called Service Enterprise Holdings, which took a 35% equity stake in one partner, Telecom Engineering Services, and a 30% equity stake in a new unit of Modern Networks, the other.
The PE firm will end up with a minority stake in Dell, while Michael Dell, who rolled over his 14 percent stake in the company and forked over extra cash from his venture capital firm MSD Capital, will own the majority.
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As part of the deal, CEO Dave Goldberg is increasing his stake in the company and Google and a number of other new investors are taking a stake in the company.
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Tengzhong will get an 80 percent stake in the company, while Hong Kong investor Suolang Duoji, who indirectly owns a big stake in Tengzhong through an investment company called Sichuan Huatong Investment Holding Co.
Upon completion of the deal, Yeung's stakes in Grandtop will drop to 9.2% from his present 16.01% stake in the company, while Winning Top and Genuine Ocean, with no details disclosed on their ownership, would hold a combined 42.37% stake in Grandtop (if they fully exercise the convertible bonds issued by Grandtop).
The government's final stake in Chrysler was sold to Italy's Fiat last year, which now has a controlling stake in the US firm.
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DaimlerChrysler bought a 34% stake in Japan's ailing Mitsubishi Motors hoping to perform a similar trick, and took a stake in Hyundai Motors, South Korea's largest car maker.
Charney has a majority 51% stake in American Apparel, while other investors include billionaire Ron Burkle, who has a 6% stake in the company, and the holding company Lion Capital.
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Sold shares in airline in favor of stake in broadcaster TV Tokyo, latest target of his online browbeating.
For its part, India has declared an interest in securing a stake in future Russian oil and gas field developments.
Saudi billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is interested in buying a stake in Twitter, according to a Sky News report.
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While the firm's stake in Zynga has fallen dramatically with the social gaming company's falling stock price, Kleiner Perkins still holds a significant stake in Twitter.
Thaksin became a household name in the U.K. in 2004 after he was rumored to be interested in buying a stake in Liverpool soccer club.
Lee Partners, has lost hundreds of millions of dollars on Refco, a futures and commodities broker that went bankrupt last month, and may therefore be more interested in selling its stake in Warner Music.
On the same day it was revealed the billionaire has taken a stake in Dell and opposes the leveraged buyout being led by founder Michael Dell, an SEC filing shows he has increased his stake in Herbalife to 15.55%, from 13.6%.
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