US antitrust regulators would like American Airlines and the US Airways Group to agree to concessions before giving their stamp of approval for the merger.

SunPower Corp acquired Greenbotics Inc for its robots that clean solar power panels. US solar manufacturer SunPower Corp purchased Greenbotics Inc. The latter manufactures robots that can clean solar panels.

Tri Pointe Homes Inc. approached the final stage of closing a $2.7 billion deal to buy Weyerhaeuser Co's homebuilding unit.

Blackstone Group would be buying a 40% stake in Chinese shopping mall operator SCP Co. Private equity company Blackstone Group said it would be purchasing a 40% stake in SCP Co, a China-based shopping mall owner.

Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd had until November 4 to negotiate a definitive agreement to buy out Blackberry Ltd.

CSC agreed to buy Ignition Partners-backed enterprise cloud management company ServiceMesh. Next-generation information technology services and solutions leader CSC, originally called Computer Sciences Corporation, said it had agreed to purchase ServiceMesh.

A regulatory filing showed that Yucaipa Cos has given a USD 261 million or USD 8 per share offer for Morgans Hotel Group Co.

NEWSCYCLE Solutions announced that it had bought the Atex AdBase advertising systems business from the Atex Group.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had given its approval for the planned consolidation of office supply retailers and rivals Office Depot Inc and OfficeMax Inc.

Fonterra purchased 6% shareholdings in Bega, which in turn upped the ante for its own bid for Warrnambool Cheese and Butter.