Report: YouTube To Buy Twitch.Tv For $1 Billion
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Shelly Palmer
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Monday, May 19, 2014 7:25 AM EDT
Google’s YouTube has reached a deal to buy Twitch, a popular videogame-streaming company, for more than $1 billion, according to sources familiar with the pact.
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Yahoo Acquires (And Shuts Down) Blink, A Snapchat Rival
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Shelly Palmer
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Thursday, May 15, 2014 5:26 AM EDT
Yahoo made its latest acqui-hire: the mobile app Blink, which lets people to send messages that it says will “self-destruct.”
Bloomberg: AT&T Is Close To Buying DirecTV For $50 Billion
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Shelly Palmer
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Tuesday, May 13, 2014 1:16 PM EDT
AT&T Inc., joining the ranks of U.S. TV, Internet and wireless providers racing to consolidate, is in advanced talks to acquire DirecTV for about $50 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
Three Software Company Founders To Pay $5.8 Million To Settle Charges Of Insider Trading Ahead Of Sale
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Monday, May 12, 2014 1:48 PM EDT
The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed insider trading charges against three software company founders for taking unfair advantage of incorrect media speculation and analyst reports about the company’s acquisition. They agreed to pay nearly $5.8 million to settle the SEC’s charges.
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Report: Apple Close To Buying Beats For $3.2 Billion
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Shelly Palmer
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Friday, May 9, 2014 4:15 AM EDT
According to the Financial Times, Apple is closing in on an acquisition of Beats, the headphone manufacturer turned streaming music service. The $3.2 billion deal would give Apple control over a powerful brand, but at the same time, it would be puzzling and uncharacteristic of Apple.
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Buying Bigger Companies
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Vivian Lewis
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Thursday, May 8, 2014 4:05 AM EDT
While StarMine data shows that Q1 results at small and microcap companies have missed estimates 56% of the time, large companies in Q1 were 52% likely to match or beat estimated earnings.
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Report: Sprint Will Try To Buy T-Mobile In June Or July
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Shelly Palmer
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Friday, May 2, 2014 5:04 AM EDT
Sprint plans to push forward with a bid for T-Mobile after meeting with banks last month to make debt arrangements for that offer, people with knowledge of the situation said.
B Of A Doesn't Have Money It Thought It Had
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John Lounsbury
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014 5:59 AM EDT
Econintersect: Bank of America has lost some money it thought it had in the form of "certain structured notes assumed in the Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. acquisition in 2009".
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Comcast To Sell Off 3.9 Million Customers Before TWC Merger
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Shelly Palmer
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Monday, April 28, 2014 1:56 PM EDT
Comcast, the country’s largest cable company, announced Monday that it will divest 3.9 million subscribers to regional cable operator Charter as part of a plan to ease regulatory concerns over its proposal to acquire Time Warner Cable.
Pharma M&A Bubble Alive And Well After Pfizer Confirms AstraZeneca Bid; AZN Demands More
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Tyler Durden
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Monday, April 28, 2014 9:17 AM EDT
While the news that Pfizer has been sniffing around AstraZeneca has been around for a while, it is the confirmation this morning from Pfizer that it is considering a cash and stock offer for AZN that has been the catalyst to push futures off their early trading levels
Biggest Credit Bubble In History Runs Out Of Time
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Lee Adler
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Friday, April 25, 2014 5:41 AM EDT
It has been a feeding frenzy for junk debt. Yield-desperate investors, driven to near insanity by the Fed’s strenuous interest-rate repression, are holding their noses and closing their eyes, and they’re bending down deep into the barrel and scrape up even the crappiest and riskiest paper just to get that little extra yield.
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How Bill Ackman Scrambled To Acquire Over $3 Billion In Allergan Calls Knowing Valeant Would Submit A Bid
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Tyler Durden
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014 1:24 PM EDT
In yet another page of the activist investor's sleaze book, last night Bill Ackman showed that when it comes to unethical way to generate "alpha" he truly may have no equal, when we learned that together with serial-acquirer and employee terminator Valeant, Ackman's Pershing Square would join in on a debt-funded acquisition of botox maker Allergan.
Sector Detector: Rejuvenated Market Seeks Follow-Through, But Earnings Loom Large
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014 10:12 AM EDT
Weakness the prior week was due in part to traders exiting positions for vacation during the holiday-shortened week, protecting big capital gains, cashing out to pay taxes on capital gains, and “delta hedging” on put options.
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Goodbye Biotech "Growth Bubble"; Hello Pharma "M&A Bubble" - Novartis Enters Fray With $25 Billion In Transactions
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Tyler Durden
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014 9:58 AM EDT
While the rest of the market has been largely quiet as earnings week unfolds, it have been the pharma companies that has stolen the spotlight in the past few days.