Mergers and Acquisitions
Mergers and Acquisitions Articles
courtesy of MicrosoftIn an announcement that should surprise no one, Stephen Elop, former CEO of Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) and now executive vice-president of the devices division of Microsoft Corp....
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Shares of Mylan retreated first thing Monday morning, after the generic drugmaker's sweetened bid for Swedish drugmaker Meda was rejected.
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Charter Communications seems to have driven a harder bargain with Comcast than was first reported. In the deal announced Monday, Comcast agreed to divest systems with about 3.9 million subscribers.
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Now that Nokia has unloaded its unprofitable mobile handset business on Microsoft the question is how does Microsoft make it profitable? What did Microsoft get for its $7.52 billion?
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MEGA Brands formally will become a part of Mattel. The Canadian toy company's shareholders overwhelmingly approved the merger.
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The specialty pharmaceutical sector is exploding with news of takeovers, exchanges and possible mergers. Here are some of the top stocks started with a rating of Buy at Jefferies.
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ThinkstockIt is not that common that you hear about mergers in the $50 billion range. But what about when you hear of mergers in the $80 billion or $100 billion range? AstraZeneca PLC (NYSE: AZN) is...
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The end of merger talks between Barrick Gold and Newmont Mining, the world's biggest gold-mining companies, seems to have investors in the latter pleased, as its shares surged Monday morning.
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Wikimedia CommonsEvery time the M&A market heats up, the number of preposterous ideas for business combinations rises. The market is once again afloat with cheap capital and a number of tech...
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3D Systems announced Wednesday that it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire a majority interest in Brazil-based Robtec, the leading distributor of printing and scanning products in Latin...
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Israeli business newspaper Calcalist reports that SodaStream International is holding talks related to selling a stake to a large soft-drink maker. Speculation naturally points first to PepsiCo.
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Netflix shares got hit yet again on Tuesday. The leader in online video subscription services has hardly traded up in the past two months. Shares likely will have the lowest close since last October.
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ThinkstockIAC/InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ: IACI), which already owns dating website match.com, recently added another 10% to its majority stake in the mobile dating app Tinder. The purchase price was...
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Procter & Gamble's sale of its most of pet food business to candy and pet food maker Mars for $2.9 billion should be a win for both companies. P&G shares were up fractionally in early trading.
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Nokia announced Tuesday morning that the sale of virtually all the company's devices and services business to Microsoft had received approval from China's Ministry of Commerce.
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