Barnes & Noble Inc. said Thursday that online retail, media and communications conglomerate Liberty Media Corp. offered to buy the book seller for $17 per share in cash.
That amounts to about $1.02 billion, based on the number of shares it had outstanding as of March.
liberty media corpBarnes & Noble reports $1B bid from Liberty MediaNewsvine - business Thu, 05/19/2011 - 17:20
Liberty Media names former HBO chief CEO of StarzNewsvine - business Tue, 12/22/2009 - 15:17
Liberty Media Corp., the conglomerate controlled by John Malone, said Tuesday it has named former HBO Chairman and CEO Chris Albrecht as president and CEO of its Starz LLC unit. DirecTV, Liberty Media sued over merger plansNewsvine - business Thu, 05/14/2009 - 15:19
Two public pension funds are suing DirecTV Group Inc. and Liberty Media Corp. over plans to merge DirecTV into Liberty's entertainment unit, then spinning them off into a new publicly traded company. |
