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Google’s Niantic Labs to become independent company
13 Aug 2015
The split with Niantic suggested that Google might be looking to slim itself as part of its proposed reorganisation
Tata Steel to continue exploring sale of European long-products business as talks with Klesch Group collapse
13 Aug 2015
TPG Capital in advanced talks to buy US-based software firm Ellucian Co for around $3.5 bn
13 Aug 2015
Pearson to sell stake in The Economist to Agnelli family for $731 mn
13 Aug 2015
Within three weeks of the sale of its popular Financial Times (FT) business newspaper, British publisher and education major Pearson Plc has sold a significant chunk of the coveted weekly publication The Economist
Fidelity National to buy financial software maker SunGard Data Systems for $9.1 bn
12 Aug 2015
US payment services provider Fidelity National Information Services Inc (FIS) today struck a deal to buy privately-held financial software maker SunGard Data Systems Inc for $9.1 billion, including debt
Symantec Corp to sell data storage unit Veritas for $8 bn
12 Aug 2015
The deal, the biggest US leveraged buyout this year, would give Symantec much-needed funds to compete in the cyber security market with Microsoft , Intel and Kaspersky Labs
Capital One to buy GE Healthcare Finance for $9 bn
12 Aug 2015
Capital One, which has emerged as the seventh largest US bank, hopes to bolster its healthcare lending operations through the acquisition
Alibaba invests $4.6 bn in electronics retailer Suning
11 Aug 2015
The investment demonstrates Alibaba’s appetite for brick-and-mortar selling space despite its dominant position in online shopping
Google restructured under holding arm `Alphabet’, Sundar Pichai made CEO
11 Aug 2015
Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be the CEO and president of Alphabet, respectively while chairman Eric Schmidt will continue in that role at Alphabet as well
Activist hedge fund, ValueAct Capital Management takes significant stake in American Express
08 Aug 2015
IBM to acquire medical image firm Merge Healthcare for $1 bn
07 Aug 2015
IBM plans to combine data and images from Merge Healthcare's medical imaging management platform with Watson's cloud-based healthcare computing system
US fertilizer giant CF Industries to buy European rival OCI’s assets for $8 bn
07 Aug 2015
CF Industries Holdings Inc is acquiring Dutch rival OCI NV’s European and North American plants and global distribution for approximately $8 billion, in a bid to create the world’s biggest publicly-traded nitrogen producer
Pershing Square builds $5.5-bn stake in Mondelez
06 Aug 2015
Activist investor William A Ackman has amassed a $5.5-billion stake in Mondelez in case it becomes takeover target
Baxalta rejects drugmaker Shire’s approach
05 Aug 2015
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