Financial Times

* Amazon has acquired Lovefilm, the web-based DVD rental service, for close to £200 million.

* Northern Foods is ready to walk away from its planned merger with Greencore if interloper Ranjit Singh Boparan puts up enough cash.

* General Atlantic, the US private equity group, buys 20% stake in Kaspersky Lab, the Russian antivirus software maker.

* China’s Bright Food has walked away from talks to buy GNC, a US retailer of nutritional products, sources said.

* Abu Dhabi awards the lead contract to develop its sour gas project to Occidental Petroleum, giving the US oil company a 40% stake.

* T-Mobile USA may sell its cell towers in order to fund future investments including wireless spectrum purchases, René Obermann, Deutsche Telekom chief executive, said.

* Samsung buys Liquavista, a maker of display technology for e-readers, phones and media players for an undisclosed amount.

* Invista Real Estate is in exclusive talks to sell part of its business to its management with the backing of two of the listed trusts under its control.

* SIX Swiss Exchange and Liquidnet, an operator of “dark pools”, on Thursday agreed to link up to each other’s markets, the first time an exchange and dark pool have joined forces in an attempt to boost the business of both sides.

The Lex Column

* Google – the company’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, plans to spend more of his days trying, hopelessly, to make a dent in his fortune.