Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the Arizona Democrat who single-handedly thwarted her party’s longtime goal of raising taxes on wealthy investors, received nearly $1 million over the past year from private equit...
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The SoftBank Experiment Has Failed. Time to Go Private?
Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son on $24 billion of new losses: “I am quite embarrassed and remorseful.” Str/Jiji Press/AFP/Getty Images Text size The stock market can be a humbling place—just ask Masayoshi ...
Chicken Soup Completes Redbox Acquisition, Ending a Weird Meme-Stock Tale
Text size A Redbox video rental kiosk. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment has finished its purchase of Redbox , winding up one of this year’s strangest meme-stock ep...
Software company acquisitions are a bullish sign for the sector’s stocks, Cramer says
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Wednesday said that software company acquisitions that have gotten rolling in recent weeks suggest that stocks in the sector could be close to bottoming. “The long sof...
Redbox Stock Plunges After Shareholders OK Chicken Soup for the Soul Acquisition
Text size Redbox shares were down 40% in recent trading. Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg Redbox shareholders on Tuesday approved the company’s acquisition by Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment . The ...
Evolving Oil And Gas Shale Boom Appears Poised For M&A Surge
Oil Pump Unit Pumping in the Eagle Ford in South Texas getty “Scale equals relevance” is a prevailing theme in the U.S. oil and gas shale world currently, and Devon EnergyDVN gained scale in the Eagle...
Unity loses less than feared, trims outlook as Applovin makes $20 billion bid for software company
On the same day it received an offer to acquire the company for roughly $20 billion, Unity Software Inc. reported a loss that was less than feared and pulled back on its guidance for the year, and sha...
Redbox Is About to Be Acquired. The Stock Remains Crazily Overvalued.
Text size Redbox was hurt by a bet that theater releases of films would surge in a postpandemic world. Dreamstime The end is near for Redbox , and some investors are about to take a substantial hit as...
Upstart stock drops after earnings, but CEO says he’s ‘confident’ in value of AI lending
Upstart Holdings Inc. delivered a lower-than-expected revenue forecast for the current quarter, but its chief executive expressed confidence in the performance and value of artificial-intelligence-dri...
Crypto.com Gets South Korea Green Light Following Local Acquisitions
Cryptocurrency platform Crypto.com has made a pair of acquisitions in South Korea, giving it the authority to operate and as a virtual-asset service provider. Crypto.com acquired payment service provi...
Crypto.com secures South Korea regulatory licenses with key acquisitions
Crypto.com has announced expansion into South Korea via the acquisition of two locally registered firms – the payments provider PnLink Co. and virtual asset platform OK-BIT Co. With the deals, Crypto....
CVS Plans to Bid for Signify Health
CVS Health is seeking to buy Signify Health according to people familiar with the matter, as the drugstore and insurance giant looks to expand in home-health services. Signify Health is exploring stra...
Gates Foundation Bought More of This Medical Diagnostics Stock
Text size These disclosures are from 13Ds filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. 13Ds are filed within 10 days of an entity’s attaining more than 5% in any class of a company’s securities....
Beyond Meat Plans to Lay Off 4% of Global Workforce
Beyond Meat is cutting 4% of its global workforce, saying the layoffs are part of its plan to reduce costs as inflation prompts consumers to buy less-expensive protein. The California-based company, w...
Berkshire Buys Buffett Successor’s Stake in Prized Utility Unit
Text size Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images Berkshire Hathaway bought a 1% stake held by Vice Chairman Greg Abel in the company’s big electric utility business for $870 million in cash, hig...
Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway reports $44 billion loss as portfolio value falls
Warren Buffett’s company reported a $43.76 billion loss in the second quarter as the paper value of its investments plummeted and he bought significantly fewer stocks, but Berkshire Hathaway’s many op...
SoftBank Is Ready to Slash Its Massive Stake in Alibaba. Here’s Why.
Text size SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son was a major early investor in Alibaba. Koki Nagahama/Getty Images SoftBank is positioned to sharply sell down its stake in Chinese tech giant Alibaba through a...
Pfizer in Advanced Talks to Buy Global Blood Therapeutics for About $5 Billion
Pfizer is in advanced talks to buy Global Blood Therapeutics the maker of a recently approved drug for sickle-cell disease, for about $5 billion, in the latest move by the drug giant to bolster its po...
Why an analyst says sell these four big software stocks
Salesforce Inc.’s stock gets a lot of love on Wall Street, with 43 of the 49 covering analysts tracked by FactSet rating the shares the equivalent of buy. But Guggenheim analyst John DiFucci bucked th...