International Business News - REED http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif The senior vice president of public affairs of investment manager Waddell & Reed Financial Inc. exercised options for 25,316 shares of common stock, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080513/waddell-reed-svp-williams-exercises-options.htm Tue, 13 May 2008 13:39:44 EDT Investment manager Waddell & Reed Financial Inc. said Tuesday its first-quarter earnings fell 1 percent due to growing distribution and incentive costs. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080422/waddell-reed-1q-earnings-fall-1-percent-on-higher-costs.htm Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:10:45 EDT Elsevier, a division of Netherlands-based publisher Reed Elsevier PLC, said Monday it acquired health care journal publisher Windhover Information Inc. for an undisclosed sum. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080310/elsevier-buys-windhover-information.htm Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:49:52 EDT Educational publisher Reed Elsevier PLC, the owner of the LexisNexis information service, could reap as much as $2 billion on the sale of a business unit that includes the magazines Variety and New Scientist. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080222/reed-unit-may-fetch-2-billion.htm Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:33:20 EST ChoicePoint Inc., a 1997 spinoff of credit agency Equifax, is being acquired by the parent of LexisNexis in a $3.6 billion cash deal that offers a major premium for a company that weathered an embarrassing breach of its database, federal investigations and a stock-trading probe of its top two executives. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080221/reed-elsevier-buys-choicepoint-for-3-6b.htm Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:30:59 EST Reed Elsevier announced the acquisition of U.S. risk-management business ChoicePoint Inc for $4.1 billion including debt alongside its results, as well as a renewed cost-savings drive and the planned sale of an advertising-dependent information business. Shares in Anglo-Dutch publisher Reed, which have outperformed the DJ Stoxx European media sector by 5 percent over the past year, jumped 6 percent to 619 pence on the news on Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080221/reed-choicepoint-anglo-dutch.htm Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:17:31 EST Reed Elsevier PLC, the owner of the Lexis Nexis information service, said Thursday it will buy U.S. data services firm ChoicePoint Inc. for $4.1 billion in cash. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080221/reed-elsevier-buys-choicepoint-for-4-1b.htm Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:23:12 EST Reed Elsevier PLC, a London-based educational publisher and the owner of the Lexis Nexis information service, said Thursday it had agreed to buy U.S. data services firm ChoicePoint Inc. for 2.1 billion pounds (US$4.1 billion; euro2.8 billion) in cash. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080221/reed-elsevier-buys-choicepoint.htm Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:07:46 EST