Splunk Stock Surges on Report of $20 Billion Cisco Buyout Offer

Text size Cisco made an offer to acquire Splunk for more than $20 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Shares of Splunk were rising sharply Monday on a report th...

The Arm deal is dead, but Nvidia is not expected to slow down

Nvidia Corp.’s acquisition of Arm Ltd. has been scuttled, but that isn’t expected to stop the chip maker’s charge into the data center. seeks to cut further into Intel Corp.’s and Advanced Micro Devic...

AMD Stock Sees Steep Drop Ahead of Xilinx Acquisition

Text size This week, AMD stock saw its biggest two-day decline since October 2018. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Advanced Micro Devices stock has come under severe selling pressure just ahead of the com...

Zynga reports record results, stock mostly unmoved after hours pending acquisition by Take-Two

Zynga Inc. reported record results in the extended session Wednesday with a slight bottom-line miss, but shares of the videogame publisher were flat after hours given its pending acquisition by Take-T...

How Much Is Trump’s New Social-Media Company Worth? Traders Can’t Decide

Traders are struggling to place a consistent value on Donald Trump’s new social-media venture, a business that hasn’t offered much in the way of details but one that supporters think is destined to ta...

Nvidia Stock Is in a Bear Market. It’s Time to Buy the Highflying Chip Maker.

Nvidia stock has gotten hit hard. One investor explains why it may be time to buy. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Text size Nvidia (NVDA) stock, like many tech shares, has tumbled from its 2021 high. But...

Nvidia Calls Off Acquisition of Chip-Designer Arm. It’s Not a Surprise.

Text size Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Shares of Nvidia fell in premarket trading Tuesday after the graphics chipmaker and Japan’s SoftBank agreed to call off Nvidia’s deal to buy microprocessor desig...

Nvidia calls off $40 billion acquisition of Arm: report

Nvidia Corp. is giving up on its attempt to acquire chip designer Arm Ltd. from Softbank Group Corp., according to a report Monday. Nvidia NVDA, +1.68% agreed to acquire Arm for $40 billion in cash an...

Opinion: Trump-related SPACs surge, then fall, as retail investors have their own Joe Rogan experience

Joe Rogan’s podcast future is up in the air, and — for a few hours on Monday — so were the stock prices of some MAGA SPACs. Shares in CF Acquisition Corp VI CFVI, +18.17% soared as high as 39.7% in la...

Apple, Not Amazon, Should Buy Peloton. One Analyst Explains Why.

Text size (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images) It’s been reported that Amazon.com and Nike are weighing bids for Peloton Interactive . One analyst said he’s be surprised if Apple also wasn’t in t...

AT&T Spent a Decade Buying Things. Now It’s Cleaning House.

Illustration by Elias Stein Text size AT&T cast light on its pending spinoff of WarnerMedia to Discovery this past week—a big step toward putting a decade of misguided mergers and acquisitions beh...

CEO of Self-Driving-Car Firm Luminar Buys Stock

Text size A vehicle with Luminar LiDAR Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty Images Luminar Technologies stock has been slumping, and founder and CEO Austin Russell scooped up the cheaper shares. Luminar (ticke...

AT&T Is Getting Closer to a Clean Slate. Here’s What Comes Next.

Text size After a saga of misguided M&A, there’s still work to be done for AT&T. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images AT&T shed some light on its pending exit from the media business on ...

AT&T’s Move to Spin Off WarnerMedia Disappoints Investors

Text size AT&T plans to pay a $1.11 annual dividend, down from the current $2.08 a share. Stefani Reynolds /AFP via Getty Images AT&T ‘s decision Tuesday to spin off its stake in WarnerMedia t...

Kohl’s soars after takeover offer, but skeptical analysts question the retailer’s real estate value

Kohl’s Corp. stock soared 33% in Monday trading to buck a highly negative market trend, after the department store retailer confirmed that it had received buyout offer. The Wall Street Journal first r...

Can Microsoft acquisition cure Activision Blizzard’s toxic workplace?

Besides concerns about antitrust scrutiny and a record $68.7 billion price tag, Microsoft Corp.’s planned acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc. also raises a key question: How will it deal with the ...

Microsoft could have just kicked off a Big Tech gold rush, which helps videogame stocks but maybe not gamers

Microsoft Corp.’s agreement to buy Activision Blizzard Inc. would be the largest tech acquisition ever, and the chance it could prompt other Big Tech names to make their own acquisitions sent videogam...

Microsoft Buys Activision. What to Know About the Acquisition and Stocks.

Text size Troy Harvey/Bloomberg Activision Blizzard shares were surging following Microsoft ‘s announcement that it would acquire the gaming company in a nearly $70 billion deal. Microsoft (ticker: MS...

GlaxoSmithKline shares soar after Unilever bids for its consumer healthcare unit

Shares of GlaxoSmithKline surged on Monday, while Unilever stock tumbled following a failed $68 billion bid by the latter to acquire the pharmaceutical giant’s consumer healthcare arm. Driving the FTS...

Satellite TV Can’t Be Saved With a DirecTV-Dish Merger

Text size In some parts of the country where cable access is limited, Dish and DirecTV remain the only way to get pay-TV subscriptions. Daniel Acker/Bloomberg For 20 years now, Dish Network and rival ...

AT&T Stock Can Close Gap With Verizon. Why Shares Might Be a Buy.

Text size A sign is posted in front of an AT&T retail store in San Rafael, California. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images AT&T could finally start catching up to its main rival, prompting analysts a...

Take-Two Is Buying Zynga. Why It’s a ‘Great Fit.’

Text size Zynga headquarters in San Francisco. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Zynga stock soared Monday after Take-Two Interactive announced it would acquire the mobile game developer in a cash-and-stoc...

Zynga Stock Soars on Deal to Be Acquired by Take-Two for $12.7 Billion

Text size A bicyclist rides by the Zynga headquarters. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Shares of mobile gaming services company Zynga were soaring in premarket trading following the news that it will be ...

Discovery Stock Soars After an Analyst Upgrade. Why the Stock Could Double.

Text size Dreamstime Discovery Communications shares are roaring higher on Friday, after an analyst upgraded the stock and issued a price target 75% above Thursday’s closing price in a 30-page report....

IBM Seeks Buyer for Watson Health Unit: Report

Text size IBM has hired BofA Securities to solicit bids for artificial-intelligence unit Watson Health, according to Axios. IBM’s looking for a price of more than $1 billion. Dreamstime In the l...

Xilinx Stock Slips as Takeover by AMD Pushed Back to First Quarter of 2022

Text size Photograph by Magnus Engo Xilinx shares were declining Friday after its acquisition by larger semiconductor rival Advanced Micro Devices was pushed into the first quarter of 2022. “While we ...