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RELATED STORIES This week on Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Yo-Yo aimed to get her Inhuman mojo back, and to that end was accompanied by May on a trip to Afterlife circa 1983. Alas, they were not alone in their interest in the Inhuman homebase…. With the Zephyr’s pit stops in time getting shorter and shorter […]
Growing up in southern Ontario, Jake Muzzin and his friends used to pretend they were their heroes from the Toronto Maple Leafs. Now that he's been traded to Toronto, the veteran defenceman gets to pull on a blue-and-white jersey with his own name on the back. Muzzin was acquired by the Maple Leafs on Monday […]
Like it or not, American media consolidation could still be on the way in the wake of Sinclair’s failed bid for Tribune Media. Reuters sources claim broadcasting giant Nexstar Media Group has reached a deal to buy Tribune for about $ 4.1 billion. The deal could be announced by December 3rd, the insiders said. Tribune […]
Logitech, a Swiss manufacturer of keyboards and webcams, is in discussions to acquire Plantronics, a U.S. maker of Bluetooth earpieces and gaming headsets.Read More
Pointy Irish entrepreneur Mark Cummins is the founder of Pointy, a startup that helps bricks-and-mortar retailers show what they have in stock online. Cummins is a serial entrepreneur and sold his first startup, visual search app Plink, to Google in 2010. Ironically, he was rejected for a job at Google years earlier as a graduate […]
The rumors were true: Microsoft has confirmed it’s buying GitHub for a whopping $ 7.5 billion in an all-stock transaction. Reports first emerged last week that Microsoft was in advanced discussions to acquire the code-hosting repository, and these reports intensified over the weekend. Now we know for sure. According to Microsoft, GitHub will a…Read More
Fledgling bike-share startup Mobike is to be acquired by Chinese ecommerce giant Meituan-Dianping. Terms of the deal were not officially disclosed, but local media reports have pegged the value of the transaction at $ 2.7 billion. Launched in Shanghai back in 2016, Mobike rolled out to dozens of cities across China before going international last ye…Read […]
Salesforce announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire MuleSoft, a company that makes software to integrate disparate enterprise software systems. The mixed cash and stock deal is worth approximately $ 6.5 billion, according to a press release. The tech titan plans to use MuleSoft’s technology to power a new Salesforce Integrati…Read More
Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming an integral part of every tech company’s strategy, so it’s no surprise that big firms are ramping up their acquisition of AI startups. M&A activity has already seen a fivefold increase in the number of AI startup acquisitions — from 22 in 2013 to 115 in 2017. While the race is far from […]
Update: Despite seemingly being finalized last week, the $ 500 million deal to acquire The Weinstein Company has fallen through (via Variety). It seems that the investors “uncovered new information about previous undisclosed liabilities.” Our original article follows below. After teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, The Weinstein Company sold its assets to an investor group […]
