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Preserving Mission By Rethinking Structure In The Nonprofit Sector
HÉCTOR COLÓN, President & CEO and Board Member of Lutheran Social Services of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan (LSS). Nonprofit leaders are facing a difficult reality. This includes rising community needs, thin reserves, escalating…
Shareholders Approve Fox's $22 Billion Roku Acquisition
With media M&A in the air, shareholders of both companies have approved Fox 's planned cash and stock acquisition of Roku at special meetings today. The deal announced in June – which will turbocharge Fox's streaming capabilities –…
A new M&A deal points to an area of the creator economy that's heating up
A new M&A deal signals that 'business-to-business' could be the next hot growth area in the creator economy. The social and influencer marketing company Billion Dollar Boy Group exclusively told CMO Insider that it acquired the B2B influencer…
The Register: A Streaming Merger, Stars Hollow Returns and Bowie's 80th
After nearly a whole year, a bidding war and a lawsuit, Paramount and Warner Bros. have officially merged. Now comes the hard part—what to call the company. ParaBros. or Warnermount? While you're pondering that, Netflix remembers iconic…
Creasy's AIM Mining taps two brokers for $1b-plus Pilbara gold float
Sarah Thompson has co-edited Street Talk since 2009, specialising in private equity, investment banking, M&A and equity capital markets stories. Prior to that, she spent 10 years in London as a markets and M&A reporter at Bloomberg and Dow Jones.
Proxy firm slams 4DMedical's plans to pay CEO 'forgotten' bonus
Sarah Thompson has co-edited Street Talk since 2009, specialising in private equity, investment banking, M&A and equity capital markets stories. Prior to that, she spent 10 years in London as a markets and M&A reporter at Bloomberg and Dow Jones.
Cybersecurity Stocks Fall Amid Report Of OpenAI Acquisition
Cybersecurity stocks fell on Wednesday amid a report that artificial intelligence system maker OpenAI plans to acquire an industry startup to advance product development. OpenAI is in early talks to buy Trail of Bits, a startup that finds and fixes…
Getty Images Files For Chapter 11 After Shutterstock Merger Collapses
Getty Images, the image licensing company whose library runs to hundreds of millions of assets, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The announcement came on Monday. The plan is to restructure and emerge as a private company by the end of the year…
IonQ: Elisity Acquisition And The Bigger Picture (NYSE:IONQ)
Dilantha De Silva 13.34K Followers IonQ is acquiring Elisity, a microsegmentation cybersecurity firm, in a $1.3 billion all-stock deal. This announcement triggered a 9% decline in the stock on October 12. Basic ownership dilution math helps justify…
PayPal's Valuation Is Unreasonable, And A Potential Acquisition Could Rectify That (PYPL)
PayPal Holdings, Inc. remains a Strong Buy as revenue growth, innovation, and low valuation outweigh recent profitability declines. PYPL's Q2 revenue rose 4.8% to $8.68B, with payment transactions and payment volume both showing robust growth…
Homes 'instantly refreshed' with Mrs Hinch's new B&M cleaning scent
B&M stores are selling a new 'fresh' scented range of products that start from as little as £2. The Woodland Wander range is part of a collaboration with the Instagram influencer Sophie Hinchcliffe, better known to her millions of online…
Rush University System and Endeavor Health announce merger, would create largest health system in Chicago
Rush University System for Health and Endeavor Health announced they will merge into a single integrated academic health system, creating the largest health system in Chicago. The combined system will have 12 award-winning hospitals and more than…
Fox's $22 Billion Roku Acquisition Secures Shareholder Approval
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… A majority of shareholders from Fox and Roku have signed off on the former's pending $22 billion acquisition of the latter, according to preliminary vote tallies from the companies' special meetings…
iOCO lifts profit 39% as it targets acquisitions
iOCO co-CEO Rhys Summerton. (Photograph supplied) JSE-listed technology services group iOCO, formerly known as EOH, increased profit after tax by 39% to R357 million for the year ended 31 July, as improved margins and lower finance costs boosted…
Kiwi broker Forsyth Barr chases new alliances in changing NZ market
The long-running rules of New Zealand's small but mighty investment banking scene, once dominated by Craigs and Jarden, are being rewritten in real-time after Australian firm Barrenjoey Capital Partners blindsided local players by crossing the…
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