Onder het idee van Global World Domination heeft Bill weer wat lopen winkelen. Het resultaat: een bijna 30% aandeel in het britse Telewest, goed voor 3 miljard dollar:
Software giant Microsoft will pay nearly $3 billion in stock for a 29.7 percent stake in British cable operator Telewest Communications under terms of the deal disclosed in a federal filing this week. The purchase, which still requires regulatory approval, would be Microsoft's second-biggestinvestment after its related $5 billion investment in U.S. cable and phone giant AT&T.Microsoft agreed to buy the shares in Telewest owned by cable operator MediaOne Group in May as part of a complex three-way deal under which AT&T would acquire MediaOne for $58 billion in cash and stock.
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