Wall Street Journal:
Hewlett-Packard’s deal for 3Com is the latest step in a march toward tech-industry consolidation. The string of recent tech deals are breathing life into the once morbid M&A market as behemoth’s like Oracle, Dell, H-P and Cis (Read More)
The Guardian:
The Crunchie fan may claim to be 'like a kid in a candy shop' - but others see him as taciturn, quiet, serious and work-focusedTodd Stitzer, the chief executive of Cadbury, is, it is fair to say, definitely no Milk Tray Man. (Read More)
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[In progress] Before turning to the fortunes of his own company, Chase Carey, deputy chairman, president & COO of News Corp (NYSE: NWS). offered some thoughts on what a match-up (Read More)
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Although it’s been fairly quiet on the M&A front lately, Hearst Corp. may have decided that now is the right time to start looking at acquisitions, NYP’s Keith Kelly reports. Ci (Read More)
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Ken Sonenclar is a managing director at DeSilva + Phillips, LLC, a New York investment bank specializing in media.This brutal year in M&A is mercifully winding down. The global (Read More)
TechCrunch:
When Google CEO Eric Schmidt mentioned a few weeks ago that the M&A spigot is now back on at the search giant, he wasn’t talking about a trickle. Today’s announced deal to by mobile ad startup AdMob for $750 million is Googl (Read More)
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Joey Levin moves from corporate M&A and finance to CEO of Mindspark Interactive Network, the IAC collection of “fun web products” like Zwinky, succeeding John Park, who wants a (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
Kraft Foods officially launched a hostile bid for Cadbury PLC valuing the company at £9.8 billion ($16.28 billion), setting in motion a tussle for control of the British confectioner.Dana Cimilluca, WSJ’s European M&A reporte (Read More)
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When Scripps Networks Interactive execs finally met with analysts Friday, CEO Ken Lowe called the acquisition of a majority stake the Travel Channel the worst-kept secret in M&A (Read More)
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Profits at Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI) rose 14 percent to $65.3 million in the third quarter, while total revenue were flat. The Cincinnati-based owner of cable TV (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
Last week Deal Journal opined on the sparsity of M&A activity in October.Oh, what a difference a week makes. Six days into this month and November already has the highest montly total dollar volume of announced U.S. deals ($5 (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
The big question hovering over the insider-trading scheme is, why? The total profits alleged in the Galleon case come to about $20 million. That may be large by most people’s standards, but for a large hedge fund that’s a rou (Read More)
WSJ.com: Money and Investing:
Two of the founders of the KKR, which went public last month, talk about the current market, the status of megadeals and investments that went wrong. (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
November is starting off with a bang for mergers and acquisitions dealmakers, with 41 announced U.S. deals worth $47.5 billion. (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
The most important thing for a race horse or a marathoner is to have enough strength to finish strongly. Well, don’t look now, but Goldman Sachs is coming up fast.With two months to go before the end of the year, Goldman is g (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
Warren Buffett gave the quiet M&A market a jolt today.Berkshire Hathaway agreed to buy the portion of Burlington Northern railroad it doesn’t already own for $26 billion in cash and stock. The acquisition would be the largest (Read More)