Mergers and Acquisitions
Mergers and Acquisitions Articles
Rupert Murdoch needs to only make one call to land another huge multimedia company. Sumner Redstone, Viacom's founder and executive chairman, owns 79% of the Class A common shares.
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ThinkstockTIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) saw its shares fly in mid-afternoon trading on Wednesday. The culprit is old buyout rumors that just will not seem to go away. What is different this time...
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courtesy of T-Mobile US Inc.It is not news that Dish Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH) chairman Charlie Ergen has been chasing after any likely suspect that owns a terrestrial-based wireless company. The...
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Investors in Twenty-First Century Fox indirectly let the company’s chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch know exactly how they felt about the proposed acquisition of Time Warner.
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With the news that Sprint is giving up on its merger plans with T-Mobile came the news the Sprint CEO Dan Hesse was being replaced on Monday with Sprint board member Marcelo Claure.
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3D Systems has decided to pursue yet another acquisition. The 3D printing leader announced that it has acquired a company called Laser Reproductions.
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Walgreen has decided to maintain its U.S. home, disappointing some big investors but very likely dodging a nasty reaction from U.S. consumers and the federal government.
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When this week started, T-Mobile was being pursued by two suitors, one a brash, young French upstart and the other an older, wiser, richer company looking for one last chance at glory.
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Now that French telecom provider Iliad S.A. has confirmed that it is offering to acquire 56.6% of T-Mobile, the negotiations between T-Mobile and Sprint potentially get a lot more interesting.
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Shortly before noon Thursday, trading was halted for about five minutes in shares of both T-Mobile and Sprint due to volatility in trading after France's Iliad made an offer to acquire T-Mobile.
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NQ Mobile announced that it has received a non-binding proposal from Bison Capital to acquire all of NQ’s outstanding shares in an all-cash deal.
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A new research report from Cowen suggests that some of the senior gold miners are looking to make acquisitions now and will make the play to acquire some of the undervalued developers.
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When Dollar Tree announced that it would acquire competitor Family Dollar Stores for a cool $8.5 billion, there was no word from activist investor Carl Icahn, who owns more than 9% of the stock.
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The announcement that online real-estate listing sites Zillow and Trulia are merging clearly benefits both firms because it neutralizes each one's largest competitor.
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Online real estate listing firms Zillow and Trulia have entered a definitive agreement under which Zillow will acquire Trulia in an all-stock transaction valued at $3.5 billion.
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