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Intel Lays Out 4-Year Roadmap To Reclaiming Semiconductor Lead
On Monday, Intel laid out its roadmap for the next four years detailing its strategy in expanding its new foundry business to compete...
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Jul 21, 20211 min read
Microsoft Buys Second Cybersecurity Firm In Two Weeks
Is cybersecurity the next massive profit center for Microsoft? It just might be as the tech giant continues to acquire firms in the...
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Jul 13, 20211 min read
Google Acquires Japanese Payments Company Pring
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is looking to capitalize on the rapid growth of electronic payments in Japan by acquiring Pring,...
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Jul 12, 20211 min read
Musk Testified Monday In Lawsuit Over SolarCity Acquisition
Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk was in court on Monday testifying in a lawsuit over Tesla’s $2.6 billion purchase of SolarCity. Musk...
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Jul 2, 20211 min read
Goldman Sachs Partners With Swedish PE Firm To Buy Parexel For $8.5B
The investment arm of Goldman Sachs and the Swedish private equity firm EQT have announced a $8.5 billion deal to acquire the clinical...
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Jun 24, 20211 min read
E-Mart Announces Deal To Buy 80% Of eBay's South Korean Business For $3B
eBay has announced it will sell an 80% stake in its South Korean operations to E-Mart for $3 billion in cash. That pegs the value of the...
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Jun 17, 20211 min read
JPMorgan Buys Robo-Advisor Nutmeg To Bolster UK Retail Banking Efforts
J.P. Morgan Chase, the largest bank in the world by market cap, has announced it would acquire the UK based robo-advisor Nutmeg. The move...
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Jun 16, 20211 min read
Private Equity Firm Hellman & Friedman To Buy Home Group In $2.8B Deal
Home Group, a United States based home decor superstore that operates 227 locations in 40 states has announced it will go private in a...
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Jun 15, 20211 min read
Apollo Announces $4.5B Sale Of Education Giant McGraw Hill To Platinum Equity
McGraw Hill, one of the largest education publishers in the world, has announced it is being sold to Platinum Equity for $4.5 billion by...
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Jun 14, 20211 min read
Shutterfly To Acquire Spoonflower In $225M Apollo-Backed Deal
Shutterfly has announced it will acquire Spoonflower, which prints custom fabric, wallpaper, and gift wrap, for $225 million including...
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Jun 12, 20211 min read
Kraft Heinz to Purchase Turkish Assan Foods In $100M Acquisition
On Friday, Kraft Heinz announced that it has come to an agreement to acquire Assan Foods from a private Turkish conglomerate Kibar...
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Jun 10, 20211 min read
Pipeline Operator Put Up For Sale As Gas Transport Deals Keep Coming
2021 has been a banner year for pipeline deals as energy companies continue their transition away from the most environmentally damaging...
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Jun 9, 20211 min read
CIOX Health Announces $7B Merger With Fellow Health Data Firm Datavant
CIOX Health and Datavant have announced a $7B merger to bring together two giants in the healthcare data industry. Both CIOX and Datavant...
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Jun 5, 20211 min read
Siemens Acquires Nextflow Software To Enhance Its Software Portfolio
Siemens has announced that it acquired Nextflow Software, a company focused on providing advanced particle-based computational fluid...
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Jun 3, 20211 min read
Aon Sells $1.4B In Assets To Clear The Way For Willis Towers Watson Mega-Merger
The financial services company Aon has announced it will sell a pair of businesses for $1.4 billion to the PE firm Aquiline Capital...
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Jun 2, 20211 min read
Etsy Buys Online Marketplace Depop For $1.63B In Bid For More Gen-Z Users
The American e-commerce company Etsy has announced it will buy Depop, an online fashion marketplace, for $1.625 billion. Following the...
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Jun 1, 20211 min read
Pembina To Buy Inter Pipeline For $6.9B And Create Canadian Oil Transport Giant
Pembina Pipeline said Tuesday that the company would acquire Inter Pipeline in a $6.9 billion transaction that would create one of...
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May 31, 20211 min read
Private Equity Firms Near $4.7B Buyout Of Cloudera According To Reports
According to reports from the Wall Street Journal, private equity firms KKR and Clayton Dubilier & Rice are reportedly nearing a deal to...
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May 29, 20211 min read
ISS Advises Against $6B Buyout Of Extended Stay America Amid Travel Recovery
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a service which advises fund managers on shareholder votes, has advised the owners of Extended...
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May 27, 20211 min read
Scrubs Disruptor Figs Soars 36% In First IPO Available At Robinhood
Shares of the medical scrubs retailer Figs Inc (NYSE: FIGS) have soared 36% after its market debut on Thursday, valuing the Santa...
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