Alphabet’s $30 billion deal talks for Wiz are back from the dead: WSJ
After previous deal talks over the summer fell apart over concerns about regulatory approval, it looks like interest in buying cybersecurity startup Wiz has come back from the dead. The Wall Street J...
Guess shares soar after the ’90s fashion darling announced a $13 per share buyout offer
Shares of surged 27% on Monday after the ’90s fashion icon announced a $13.00 per share take-private offer from investment firm WHP Global. WHP, owner of over a dozen consumer and retail brands inclu...
M&A flattened in February under the deals-friendly Trump administration
In the aftermath of President Trump’s election, a common Wall Street refrain was that the incoming administration would be great for dealmaking. Stocks of soon-to-merge companies like and popped aft...
Comcast extends its Olympics rights agreement through 2036 with a $3 billion deal
It seems like , which already held the US broadcast rights to the Olympics through 2032, took a look at the direction the streaming sports rights market is headed ( up ) and decided to lock in a few m...
Saudi-owned mobile company catches “Pokemon Go” for $3.5 billion
There continues to be huge money in making your phone hot as hell. Niantic Labs, the games studio behind the massive mobile title “Pokemon Go,” has been acquired for $3.5 billion. The buyer: the Saudi...
INTC stock is rising after TSMC pitched an Intel foundry joint venture to Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom
Taiwanese chipmaking giant is in discussions with , , , and about taking a stake in a joint venture to operate foundry division, its loss-making business that manufactures chips for other companies...
While no one’s buying homes, Rocket’s buying Redfin
Mortgage biggie said Monday that it’ll buy real estate listing platform for $1.75 billion in an all-stock deal. Redfin shares surged more than 75% in early trading, while Rocket shares fell more tha...
Walgreens signs $10 billion deal to be taken private by Sycamore Partners
is officially leaving Wall Street. Shares of the beleaguered pharmacy chain leapt nearly 8% Friday morning, cruising toward the agreed-upon takeover price of $11.45, after the company agreed to be sol...
Intel dips after Broadcom CEO says he’s “not thinking of” M&A
is up double digits in premarket trading after reporting better-than-anticipated earnings and a bright revenue outlook for the current quarter. But unfortunately, there’s not too much carryover for ot...
An impending $10 billion take-private of Walgreens would cap an epic fall from grace
shares popped 6.5% Tuesday following reports that the struggling pharmacy chain is close to a deal to go private with Sycamore Partners. According to The Wall Street Journal, the private equity giant ...
Tobacco giant Philip Morris might sell its cigar business, as it works toward a smoke-free future
Marlboro owner is considering a potential sale of its cigar business in the US as the company continues to shift toward its smoke-free products. The tobacco maker is looking for over $1 billion for i...
Walgreens buyout hopes remain alive, pushing stock higher
Perpetual market laggard is having a moment in the spotlight today. The troubled drugstore company is up big after the Financial Times reported that if private equity firm Sycamore Partners’ on-again...
Nissan is interested in selling Tesla its factories. Tesla probably isn’t.
A Japanese group plans on approaching about investing in , the Financial Times reports , in hopes the American electric vehicle maker will want to get its hands on more American factories.
Celsius soars after announcing plan to buy Gen Z-focused competitor, shrugging off Q4 sales dip
Celsius Holdings, the energy drink brand beloved by celebrities and fitness influencers, is spiking in early trading after disclosing a $1.65 billion deal (net of tax assets) to acquire rival beverage...
Intel soars as Broadcom, TSMC acquisition chatter heats up
In the semiconductor space, is the beautiful swan turned ugly duckling turned beautiful swan once again. Shares are soaring as The Wall Street Journal reports that and are looking at acquiring sepa...
Elliott twists Phillips 66’s arm even more as it builds $2.5 billion stake
Phillips 66 might have thought it was out of the woods with Elliott Investment Management a year ago, when it bowed to pressure from the activist investor by agreeing to name one Elliott-approved dire...
Elon Musk-led investor group makes $97.4 billion offer to buy OpenAI’s nonprofit arm
A group of investors led by CEO Elon Musk is making an offer to acquire the nonprofit piece of OpenAI for $97.4 billion, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. Musk’s attorney was report...
Honda and Nissan’s merger may be ending before it began
The Honda and Nissan merger was a brief flame, but a bright one. Talks between the two Japanese automakers are reported to have reached a standstill, sending their stocks careening in opposite directi...
Frontier’s still dreaming of a budget airline buyout. Spirit, not so much.
Three years later, is back and trying to buy . On Wednesday, Frontier said it made another offer to snag its budget rival — this time for $2.1 billion, or about $800 million less than its takeover at...
TikTok’s latest round of potential buyers includes Oracle and Perplexity AI
After President Trump announced that saving TikTok would require the US — it’s not clear whether he meant US companies or the government itself — to have a 50% ownership stake in a new venture, a new ...