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Updated Tuesday, February 9, 2010 12:47 am TWN, Reuters

Disney, Google eye stake in China bus media firm

HONG KONG/SHANGHAI -- A consortium led by Walt Disney Co is in advanced talks to buy into China's largest in-bus digital media and advertising company, a deal that could offer the U.S. entertainment giant a new platform to promote Mickey Mouse in China, three sources told Reuters.

Google Inc, the world's No.1 Internet search company, which threatened to quit China last month over censorship and hacking concerns, was among investors in the Disney-led consortium, the sources said on Monday.

The consortium planned to buy a stake of between 30 and 40 percent in Bus Online for more than US$100 million via a purchase of old and new shares to be issued by the company in private placements, said the sources.

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