TechCrunch: M&A
JANUARY 29, 2024
A year and a half after announcing its intention to acquire iRobot, Amazon’s deal is officially dead. All parties involved anticipated some level of regulatory scrutiny, but after a few decades of tech company consolidation, few expected this much friction. The deal had already passed through select international regulatory bodies, including the U.K.
JD Supra: Mergers
JANUARY 29, 2024
The last two years have seen a significant uptick in the number of transactions involving credit union acquisitions of banks with 26 deals announced and two transactions already announced in 2024. Yet, the law around these transactions remains somewhat unsettled and the path to regulatory approval is often not clear. These transactions are sometimes structured as an acquisition of the bank’s assets and the assumption of specified liabilities to avoid conflict with possible regulatory issues.
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The New York Times: Banking
JANUARY 30, 2024
As Beijing struggles with a slumping stock market and a collapsing real estate sector, commentary and even financial analysis it deems negative are blocked.
CNBC: Investing
JANUARY 29, 2024
Quiet luxury was one of last year's biggest viral fashion trends, but unlike other short-lived fads, this one has made its way into investor portfolios.
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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?
TechCrunch: M&A
JANUARY 29, 2024
Amazon has ended its bid to acquire iRobot, the maker of robotic vacuums, after running up against headwinds with European regulators. Amazon and iRobot have opted to mutually terminate their previously announced acquisition agreement, under which Amazon would’ve purchased iRobot for ~$1.7 billion in cash (or slightly lower). In a press release, the companies said […] © 2024 TechCrunch.
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The New York Times: Banking
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Economies all over the world are lowering inflation while avoiding serious recession — but growth in the United States stands out.
CNBC: Investing
JANUARY 28, 2024
TipRanks' analyst ranking service pinpoints Wall Street's best-performing stocks, including KeyCorp and Brookfield Infrastructure Partners
TechCrunch: M&A
JANUARY 31, 2024
Nearly two months after Castro, the third-party podcast app, announced it was seeking new ownership, the company revealed today that it has officially been bought by Bluck Apps, an independent app studio that developed Android podcast app Aurelian. In November, Castro’s future was questioned when a former employee, Mohit Mamoria, posted on X that the […] © 2024 TechCrunch.
JD Supra: Mergers
JANUARY 29, 2024
After a sluggish 2023 in which global merger and acquisition activity fell almost 20% to $2.87 trillion – the lowest level since 2013 – the question in the corporate world, is: ‘Will M&A roar back in 2024?’.
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The New York Times: Banking
JANUARY 29, 2024
The forced liquidation of China Evergrande epitomizes the sector’s struggles: Nationwide, sales are down and millions of homes have been paid for but not delivered.
CNBC: Investing
JANUARY 28, 2024
In a likely merger arbitrage play, Berkshire Hathaway continues to add to its holding in Liberty Media tracking stock for satellite radio company SiriusXM.
TechCrunch: M&A
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
A small U.K. startup that combined a school bus service with a software platform to safeguard pupils has been acquired by “smart buses” startup Zeelo, which last year raised a $14 million war chest for expansion. Founded in the U.K. in 2010, Kura, which had previously raised £3.8 million in a private equity round from […] © 2024 TechCrunch.
JD Supra: Mergers
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
On 26 January 2024, the European Commission published a report on competition enforcement in the pharmaceutical sector, highlighting the role of EU competition law in safeguarding market participants and consumers, particularly amid the challenges posed by the Covid-19 crisis. The report looks at enforcement from 2018 - 2022 and is a follow-up of the previous report which covered 2009 - 2017.
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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.
The New York Times: Banking
JANUARY 30, 2024
The central bank is widely expected to lower interest rates this year. But with growth and consumer spending chugging along, explaining it may take some work.
CNBC: Investing
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Using the CNBC Pro Stock Screener tool, we looked for the most overbought and oversold names in the S&P 500 based on their 14-day relative strength index.
The Deal
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
After being in business for more than a decade, security solutions provider Servexo Inc., which services the corporate, government, healthcare, education and utilities sectors, is prepared to entertain serious discussions with potential investors in the next three to six months. Servexo, headquartered in Gardena, Calif., has been bootstrapped since it was founded in 2012 and incorporated in 2013.
JD Supra: Mergers
JANUARY 29, 2024
Editor’s Note: The article below is the first in our three-part series, Federal Antitrust Enforcement in Health Care: 2023 Year in Review. The series is based on our recent webinar, 2023 Health Care Enforcement Trends: Spotlight on Consumer Protection, Antitrust and Fraud.
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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.
The New York Times: Banking
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
For some companies, the new technology is an opportunity to enhance productivity and profit. Will their workers benefit as well?
The TRADE
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Historical Level 3 data and analytics provider BMLL has expanded its data coverage to now serve South African capital markets. BMLL has created three data bundles targeting South African market participants using 200 metrics derived from Level 3 data spanning JSE Main, AltX and A2X, alongside every recognised exchange for dual-listing (ASX, LSE, NYSE, TSE, Nasdaq, ENXT AMS, ENXT BRU and SIX).
Cisco: M&A
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Transforming the war room starts with Customer Digital Experience Monitoring (CDEM) to break down silos with correlated, cross-domain insights and efficiency for rapid resolutions.
JD Supra: Mergers
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
2023’s much-discussed downturn in mergers & acquisitions – with global M&A volume and value down 6% and 17%, respectively, from 2022 – was largely driven by the slowdown in the tech sector, with global tech M&A volumes down 51% year over year, while other sectors saw marked increases. The headwinds in the tech M&A sector are generally reflective of two core trends.
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In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.
The New York Times: Banking
JANUARY 27, 2024
Dick Bove, the ubiquitous banking expert, is going out swinging after more than half a century in the business.
CNBC: Investing
JANUARY 31, 2024
Ether is ready to take the limelight in the month ahead after bitcoin and newly launched bitcoin ETFs dominated crypto investor attention in January.
Cisco: M&A
JANUARY 31, 2024
For today’s IT teams, managing distributed users, devices, applications, and workloads is not an easy task—especially when these disparate elements often connect across multiple infrastructures, as we… Read more on Cisco Blogs
JD Supra: Mergers
JANUARY 31, 2024
Nearly two years after first proposing new rules related to special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has adopted final rules aimed at enhancing investor protections in initial public offerings by SPACs and in subsequent de-SPAC transactions. The final rules require new enhanced disclosure requirements related to SPACs, and include new procedural protections in de-SPAC transactions.
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Organizations look to embedded analytics to provide greater self-service for users, introduce AI capabilities, offer better insight into data, and provide customizable dashboards that present data in a visually pleasing, easy-to-access format. To better understand the factors behind the decision to build or buy analytics, insightsoftware partnered with Hanover Research to survey IT, software development, and analytics professionals on why they make the embedded analytics choices they do.
The New York Times: Banking
JANUARY 30, 2024
New York’s attorney general said the bank failed to protect its customers from hackers who, in some cases, stole their life savings and college funds.
CNBC: Investing
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Analyst Adam Jonas said that scaling back spending plans for electric vehicles can help Ford impress Wall Street.
PE Hub
JANUARY 30, 2024
Since its formation in 2020, CollisionRight’s network has expanded to more than 85 repair centers across nine states. The post Summit Partners buys auto body repair services provider CollisionRight from CenterOak appeared first on PE Hub.
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