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FTSE 100 fashion chain has been buying up rivals since pandemic and could reach deal by end of weekThe clothing brand FatFace is set to become the latest high street fashion retailer to be taken over by Next in a deal thought to be worth more than £100…
Rumours of potential swoop by international rivals drives up shares in UK’s biggest insurerNils Pratley: Aviva no longer needs a rescue Shares in Aviva, the UK’s biggest insurer, jumped after reports that it could be the target of a takeover by a forei…
On Thursday Cisco agreed to buy Splunk in a $28 billion deal intended to address AI-enabled security and observability issues.
The $69bn acquisition is expected to go ahead as revised proposal addresses regulator’s concernsMicrosoft’s $69bn (£54bn) deal to buy Activision Blizzard, the maker of games including Call of Duty and World of Warcraft, looks set to be cleared after th…
British tech firm valued at $52.3bn before highly anticipated flotation on Nasdaq by private owner SoftBankThe British chip designer Arm has secured a $52.3bn (£41.9bn) valuation in its initial public offering (IPO), before its highly anticipated retur…
US Department of Justice questions compliance with FTC order on data security and privacy practicesElon Musk’s takeover of Twitter created a “chaotic environment” at the social media platform that may have violated a government order requiring an overh…
PwC says owner plans to reopen stores under Poundland brand throwing lifeline to as many as 1,800 staffPoundland is to acquire up to 71 Wilko sites that it intends to reopen under its own brand in a deal that could throw a lifeline to some of the about…
Much like the rest of technology, merger and acquisition (M&A) activity for cybersecurity companies has been in a slump this year. There are a number of reasons why that won’t last, but still, the decline has been noteworthy. For the first seven months of this year, there were a mere 34 startups that got acquired, […]
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UK government forced sale of ‘alt-net’ broadband provider Upp on national security groundsVirgin Media 02 is to buy a British broadband company owned by a Russian oligarch-backed investment company, after the government forced its sale on national secu…
Dean Rosenfield, group managing director at Saab UK, told media that the acquisition was part of a “deliberate strategy” to grow and expand business in Britain.