There was one caveat: he was not to enter into a merger or otherwise weaken the Roche family's control of the firm.

提醒一下：他不是要参与并购或其他削弱罗技家族对该公司控制的行动。

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LSE outbid Markit, a financial-information firm, to clinch the deal, making up for a failed merger with TMX, a Canadian bourse, earlier this year.

伦敦证券交易所以高价胜出一家名叫Markit的金融信息公司，最终成交。这弥补了其今年初未能成功与一家加拿大证券交易所TMX并购的遗憾。

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That said, the firm (formed from a merger of two rivals, Sirius and XM, last year) has proved adept at offering content that people will pay for.

据称，该公司(去年由Sirius和XM这两家竞争对手合并而成的公司)被证明长于提供用户愿意掏钱的更累服务。

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Two years ago, Corus, an Anglo-Dutch firm born from the merger of British Steel and Hoogovens, found itself, uneasily, with a new big shareholder, Alisher Usmanov, another of the steel oligarchs.

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The firm was created from the merger of NTL and Telewest, and Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Mobile.

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Tuesday also brought a deal, with Glencore International agreeing to a long-anticipated merger with mining firm Xstrata.

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