Business news for Mon, 26 Nov 2007 & with word buy. 37 news.

Intuit Inc. said Monday it agreed to purchase Homestead Technologies Inc. for about $170 million. (INTU)

If you're hoping to save a few thousand dollars by buying a vehicle in the United States, the Canada Border Services Agency wants to give you a hand.

Best Buy and Circuit City were busy over the holiday weekend, but are shoppers being lured by must-have gadgets -- or deep discounts?

The troubled British mortgage bank will try to close a takeover deal with its first-choice suitor, a Virgin Group-led consortium

Almost half of British consumers say they would never buy an iPhone at £269 ($557), and 26% say they like it but it's too expensive

Over lunch recently, an online publisher shared with me an RFP that he had received. The advertiser wanted to know how many impressions they could get for a million dollars.The publisher looked at me and said, "See, they still aren't getting it, are they?" When I asked what he meant by that, he said, "Broadband isn't about building reach. It's about building relationships. Broadcast is all about how many saw the advertising. Broadband is all about how much time they spend with the advertising. What advertisers should be asking is not how many impressions they can get for $1 million, but how much involvement they can get for that amount."

Tesoro Corp.'s leaders won a tense test of wills Tuesday when billionaire Kirk Kerkorian's Tracinda Corp. withdrew its cash tender offer to buy 16 percent of Tesoro's shares for $1.4 billion.

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Oil and natural gas stocks rose Monday amid modest gains in the overall market, as oil prices edged down. The Amex Natural Gas Index advanced 1.1% to 553. The Amex Oil Index advanced 0.4% to 1,436. Crude oil futures fell 73 cents to $97.45 on the Nymex. Occidental Petroleum fell 1% to $50.03 after it said it's deepening ties to Libya, with plans to spend about $5 billion in the next three years to boost oil production. Tesoro fell 2% to $54.82 after Tracinda Corp. objected to a poison pill provision adopted by the company. Chevron rose 0.5% after the company said it's evaluating options for its 5% stake in India's Reliance Petroleum. Tidewater rose 3% to $52.18 after Jefferies upgraded the oil services firm to buy from hold.

British Airways ends plans to increase its stake in Iberia, signalling it no longer wishes to buy the Spanish airline.

Two struggling so-called pink-sheet companies have recently begun running advertisements on CNBC as a high-profile way of moving their stocks higher. Pink-sheet companies ConnectAJet and Hear At Last have seen their stock prices jump after their...

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- British Airways Plc on Monday said it won't exercise its pre-emption rights to acquire any of the Iberia shares being sold by Spanish bank BBVA or cigarette distributor Logista. BA Chief Financial Officer Keith Williams said that Iberia's position as a key industrial partner remains important and is not dependent on an increase in shareholding. The announcement comes after BBVA and Logista said they wanted to sell their shares to unlisted savings bank Caja Madrid. Under a pre-emption agreements signed in 1999, if any of the core shareholders in the Spanish carrier want to sell their shares, the remaining core shareholders have the right to buy. BA has a 10% stake in Iberia. Europe's fourth-largest carrier has received several takeover approaches in recent months, including one from a consortium led by BA and private equity firm TPG. Caja Madrid said last week it intended to build a stake of more than 23% in Iberia.

(Reuters) -- Sears Holdings Corp. has offered $6.75 per share in cash to Restoration Hardware Inc. shareholders, according to a regulatory filing on Monday, in an attempt to buy the upscale furnishings retailer. Sears already owns a 13.7 percent stake in Restoration and was thought to be ...

Virgin Group appeared as the front-runner to buy Northern Rock after winning the backing of the U.K. Treasury and Bank of England.

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Dutch consumer electronics giant Royal Philips Electronics on Monday said it will buy Genlyte Group, a U.S. manufacturer of lighting fixtures, for $2.7 billion in cash, making it the top lighting company in North America.

Royal Philips Electronics will buy Genlyte Group for $2.7 billion, the world's largest lighting maker said Monday.

While the origins of the Christmas carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas” may be a mystery, one thing is certain: It’s getting more costly to buy your true love all the items mentioned.

According to 7,982 consumers who participated in BIGresearch's November Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey, grandparents may buy the grandchildren something other than toys.

The Federal Election Commission adopted new rules last week that would allow companies, labor organizations and other groups to directly buy political advertising--as long as it concerned a political issue. The results could be seen next month--in the upcoming primaries.