Ms. Bromstad said the company was considering acquisitions and partnerships in India, Russia, France and Spain.
Generali, based in Trieste, Italy, is considering acquisitions abroad as the Italian life insurance market contracts, and it will use funds from the sale of Nuova Tirrena, a car insurer, to expand internationally.
Dow Jones, which also publishes Barron's and SmartMoney magazine, is considering acquisitions that would add content to its newspapers and products that are distributed electronically in the United States and Europe, Peter Kann, the chief executive, said on a conference call.
To enter the U.S. market, Chinese companies are quietly considering acquisitions, much as Lenovo did with IBM's PC business.
Chou also mentioned that the company was considering acquisitions that dealt with marketing and (perhaps more importantly) software.
Other companies considering acquisitions have been eyeing the case as a bellwether on whether their mergers would go unchallenged.
Time Inc. then agreed to consider acquisition offers, but ultimately decided that Business 2.0's resources were best added into Fortune.
Individual panels, known as the Rumsfeld Reviews, considered acquisition, financial management, morale and quality of life, space, transformation, conventional force structure, crisis management, nuclear force posture and international strategy.
"My advice to entrepreneurs when raising another round, as Jelly was about to do, is to consider acquisition offers," Stone writes.
