Feb 20 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1100 GMT on Thursday:

** Facebook Inc FB.O will buy fast-growing mobile-messaging startup WhatsApp for $19 billion in cash and stock in a landmark deal that places the world's largest social network closer to the heart of mobile communications and may bring younger users into the fold. ID:nL3N0LO52J

** Billionaire investor Carlos Slim's America Movil

AMXL.MX plans a takeover of Telekom Austria TELA.VI via an accord with its top Austrian shareholder that would trigger a public offer, News magazine reported. ID:nL6N0LP1LS

** Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim plans to increase his stake in The New York Times Co NYT.N by exercising at the end of this year warrants he received when he made a major loan to the newspaper company, according to a report in Bloomberg.

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** U.S.-based Portfolio Recovery Associates Inc PRAA.O , which provides fee-based debt collection services, said it would buy Norway's Aktiv Kapital AS for about $880 million to expand its debt collection services in Europe. ID:nL3N0LO52V

** Dongfeng Motor Group Co Ltd 0489.HK , whose listed unit has agreed to buy a 14 percent stake in PSA Peugeot Citroen

PEUP.PA , said it would invest 2 billion yuan ($329 million) to expand its technology centre to boost indigenous vehicles.

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** Private equity firm Blackstone Group LP BX.N and Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC are in advanced talks to buy minority stakes in Kronos Inc SEHWKR.UL that could value the human resources software company at around $4.5 billion, including debt, three people familiar with the matter said.

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** Japan's Shiseido Co Ltd 4911.T said that it has signed a deal to sell skincare brands Decleor and Carita to L'Oreal SA

OREP.PA for about 230 million euros ($316 million).

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** Nelson Peltz has resumed his call to break up PepsiCo Inc

PEP.N less than a week after the maker of Pepsi-Cola and Lay's potato chips said it would not spin off its North-American beverage business. ID:nL3N0LP1TT

** China's largest Internet company Tencent Holdings Ltd

0700.HK and online retailer JD.com are in talks to combine their e-commerce business, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters, confirming earlier media reports. ID:nL3N0LP24M

** Hungarian energy group MOL MOLB.BU is close to finalising a deal to sell a 49 percent stake in upstream company BaiTex LLC to Turkish Petroleum Corporation, MOL said.

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** Bahrain Telecommunications BTEL.BH (Batelco) will take majority control of Kuwait's Qualitynet after agreeing to double its stake in the Internet provider, Batelco said. Batelco will raise the Bahraini firm's holding to 90 percent from 44 percent previously. ID:nL6N0LP12K

** TUI AG TUIGn.DE shareholder RIU, the Spanish hotels group, is to increase its stake in the German travel and tourism group by around 2 percent as part of a placing by the group's second largest shareholder. ID:nWEB00IT0

** Air France-KLM SA AIRF.PA will invest $100 million in Brazilian airline Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes SA GOLL4.SA

GOL.N as the European carrier seeks to take advantage of a potential surge in travel demand during the coming soccer World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, both to take place in Brazil.

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