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forbes.com - Ryan Dewey Smith - Disrupting The Conventional Wisdom Of Nonprofit Mergers And Acquisitions
Disrupting The Conventional Wisdom Of Nonprofit Mergers And Acquisitions
Forbes

A constellation is a system with a center hub of infrastructure—that unifying, balanced axis that creates stability and coordination. Prior to founding Inperium, a company that conventional wisdom views as a nonprofit consolidator (a…

forbes.com - Ted Reed - United Airlines CEO Stirred Up A Hornet's Nest With Merger Hint
United Airlines CEO Stirred Up A Hornet's Nest With Merger Hint
Forbes

United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby speaks during a media event at LAX in March. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon) A week after a report surfaced that United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby “floated” the idea of an American Airlines/United Airlines…

variety.com - Clayton Davis - 'Jury Duty: Company Retreat' Submits 19 Actors for Emmys, Including Sia; Participant Anthony Norman Ineligible (EXCLUSIVE)
'Jury Duty: Company Retreat' Submits 19 Actors for Emmys, Including Sia; Participant Anthony Norman Ineligible (EXCLUSIVE)
Variety

The jury may still be out on whether the Emmys will embrace “Company Retreat” — but Amazon is going for it anyway. Prime Video has revealed its Emmy strategy for the second season of the reality hoax series exclusively to…

phonearena.com - Alan Friedman - Breaking: Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile discuss combining in a potential record-setting merger
Breaking: Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile discuss combining in a potential record-setting merger
PhoneArena

In what could result in the largest public Merger & Acquisition (M&A) deal in history, Bloomberg says that Deutsche Telekom is thinking about combining with T-Mobile. The German carrier is currently the majority stockholder of T-Mobile owning 53.7%…

washingtonexaminer.com - Washington Examiner Staff - Trump opposes United Airlines merger with American Airlines
Trump opposes United Airlines merger with American Airlines
Washington Examiner

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he opposed a possible merger between United Airlines and American Airlines. Trump was asked during an early morning appearance on CNBC's Squawk Box about a proposed merger between the two airline giants.

bloomberg.com - Daniel Basteiro - ECB Has Always Favored Cross-Border Bank M&A, Guindos Says
ECB Has Always Favored Cross-Border Bank M&A, Guindos Says
Bloomberg

The European Central Bank fully backs mergers across European countries, a top official said when asked about UniCredit SpA 's potential acquisition of Commerzbank AG. “Regarding banking integration, we have always been in favor of…

koreatimes.co.kr - Bahk Eun-ji - Korea's military academy merger plan sparks debate
Korea's military academy merger plan sparks debate
The Korea Times

A government push to integrate Korea's Army, Navy and Air Force academies is gaining traction, but so is the backlash. What began as a proposal to modernize officer training has evolved into a broader debate about the structure of the military and…

straitstimes.com - T-Mobile's biggest shareholder weighs merger to create telecom giant: Sources
T-Mobile's biggest shareholder weighs merger to create telecom giant: Sources
The Straits Times

– Deutsche Telekom is considering a full combination with its American arm T-Mobile US, a move that would create a multinational telecom group and rank as the largest-ever public mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deal, people with knowledge of…

marketwatch.com - SPAC Hall Chadwick Acquisition Corp II Seeks to Raise $265M in IPO
SPAC Hall Chadwick Acquisition Corp II Seeks to Raise $265M in IPO
MarketWatch

The blank-check company, incorporated in the Cayman Islands, it plans to sell 26.5 million units at $10 apiece, according to a Tuesday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Each unit contains one share and half a warrant to buy an…

searchengineland.com - Jason Barnard - The funnel flip: Why AI forces a bottom-up acquisition strategy
The funnel flip: Why AI forces a bottom-up acquisition strategy
Search Engine Land

The industry has been building top-down for 30 years. Start with awareness, get in front of as many people as possible, and work them down through the acquisition funnel. The logic made sense in the broadcast era, and it wasn't entirely wrong in…

seekingalpha.com - Seeking Profits - Peoples Bancorp: Citizens Acquisition Adds Scale In Attractive Fashion (NASDAQ:PEBO)
Peoples Bancorp: Citizens Acquisition Adds Scale In Attractive Fashion (NASDAQ:PEBO)
Seeking Alpha

Peoples Bancorp delivered solid Q1 results, with margin expansion and a 2.4% dividend increase, reaching a new 52-week high. PEBO's acquisition of Citizens National enhances its deposit base, geographic presence, and interest margins while…

watoday.com.au - Holly Thompson - Are WA's universities 'scaremongering' over merger plans?
Are WA's universities 'scaremongering' over merger plans?
WAtoday

Some of Western Australia's biggest universities have been accused by the state's tertiary education minister of employing “scaremongering” tactics in the face of a possible merger, amid claims the status quo exploits international…

thehill.com - Filip Timotija - GOP-linked group urges Congress to slash red tape on Pentagon acquisitions
GOP-linked group urges Congress to slash red tape on Pentagon acquisitions
The Hill

A GOP-linked group is urging Congress to slash red tape on the Pentagon's defense acquisition process, a restructuring aimed at prioritizing shorter timelines for delivery, expanding the industrial base and boosting capacity. The new report from…

independent.co.uk - Bo Erickson - Trump urges 'somebody to buy' Spirit Airlines but 'doesn't like' potential merger
Trump urges 'somebody to buy' Spirit Airlines but 'doesn't like' potential merger
The Independent

U.S. President Donald Trump has called for someone to step in and help troubled Spirit Airlines while speaking out against a potential merger of two other US carriers. Trump said Tuesday that he does not like a potential tie-up between United…

seekingalpha.com - Brandon Evans - ServiceNow inches up after it closes Armis acquisition
ServiceNow inches up after it closes Armis acquisition
Seeking Alpha

ServiceNow (NOW) shares were up 1% during Tuesday trading after the company announced it had closed on its acquisition of Armis. The acquisition is expected to more than triple ServiceNow's market opportunity for security and risk solutions. Armis…

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