Mergers and Acquisitions

Mergers and Acquisitions Articles

The rumored deals might make sense, except that joint ventures could achieve most of the benefits of acquisitions, the costs of would be much less.
Venture capital firm Loup Ventures has predicted that e-commerce giant Amazon will acquire brick-and-mortar retailer Target in 2018.
Now that Apple has an opportunity to repatriate some $250 billion from its overseas cash hoard, what should it do with the money? Buying Netflix should be on the table.
Mallinckrodt has seen its shares rise on news that it was acquiring Sucampo Pharmaceuticals for roughly $840 million.
Qualcomm's board this morning announced that it has rejected unanimously the 11 candidates nominated for its board by unwanted suitor Broadcom. The proxy fight begins in earnest now.
Apple faces lawsuits for slowing the operations of older iPhones, the value of bitcoin dropped by almost a quarter in a day, and other important headlines.
Jack in the Box shares made a handy gain early on Tuesday after the fast-food chain announced that it would be unloading one of its core businesses.
Casino operator Penn National has agreed to acquire rival Pinnacle Entertainment for $2.8 billion, including debt. The acquisition will lift Penn's total properties by 16 to 41 when the deal closes.
Snyder’s-Lance saw its shares make a handy gain early on Monday after it was announced that Campbell Soup would be acquiring the company.
Humana may buy Kindred Healthcare, CME will launch bitcoin futures, SpaceX launched a recycled rocket for the first time, and more important headlines.
As usual when two companies in the same businesses merge, job cuts follow, due to "synergies." At Disney and Fox, this could be to the tune of 10,000 jobs.
The FCC has killed net neutrality, Disney has become the king of all media, holiday spending has been unusually strong, and more important headlines.
Disney made it official today: the House of Mouse is buying major portions of 21st Century Fox in an all-stock deal valued at around $66 billion.
T-Mobile will begin a pay-TV service, Redbox will move into the content streaming business, IBM has set deals to move further into quantum computing, and more important headlines.
Getting products to the consumer the fastest has been a growing trend among retailers. And so Target has acquired Shipt.