Cable & Wireless has bought ML Integration, a data networking communications and systems integration company. In personnel terms, the acquisition is C&W's largest to date in the UK. ML Integration has a net asset value of £2.1 million, but C&W won't say how much it paid for the Reading-based company.

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AIM-listed, Media Square Plc, claims it is looking to acquire suitable businesses "principally in the provision of on-line and off-line media and marketing solutions over the Internet". Anyone interested should form an orderly queue somewhere that won't get in the way of everybody else.

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Interactive content outfit MyVal.com plc has entered into a conditional contract to acquire GTC (UK) Limited as part of a reverse take-over. In return, it's happy to part with up to 34 million new ordinary shares in the dotcom.

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Financial information outfit, advfn.com plc, has opened its first European Web site providing online financial information for the French stock market. ®

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