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...On Monday, the Virginia-based bank said it had agreed to acquire Discover Financial Services for $35bn, to be paid all in stock....
...The merger between Virginia-based Capital One and Illinois-based Discover would shake up the US credit card landscape and mark one of the industry’s biggest deals since the 2008 financial crisis....
...David Nemer, assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, said Big Tech companies such as Google “are playing hardball because they know that the bill could pave the way for other...
...Virginia-based CapitalOne bank also showed serious interest in acquiring Frank, people with knowledge of the negotiations said. CapitalOne said it does not comment on deal speculation....
...A complaint filed on Tuesday by the DoJ and a group of US states in a Virginia federal court accuses Google of using “anti-competitive, exclusionary, and unlawful means to eliminate or severely diminish...
...Finback was considering buying a stake in Gideon Cyber Systems LLC, according to the term sheet....
...The Virginia-based company has over the past decade taken on bigger competitors such as the Washington Post and upended the political press in Washington....
...Google was on the receiving end of its first federal antitrust complaint from a publisher earlier this year, when the Charleston Gazette-Mail filed a suit in West Virginia....
...Earlier this month, Amazon said it would bring 25,000 new roles to Bellevue, Washington, as well as building out its new headquarters in northern Virginia....
...Larry Sabato, the director of the non-partisan University of Virginia Center for Politics, adds: “They are not going to put themselves through it....
...“When there’s digital transformation that happens to an industry it’s really hard to revert back to the norm . . . education, I’m hoping, is no different,” said James Rhyu, chief executive of Stride, a Virginia-based...
...the fabric of local communities”, from providing opportunities for small businesses to supporting distance learning, Google said it would invest in new data centre capacity in Nebraska, South Carolina, Virginia...
...Meanwhile, the governor of West Virginia has filed a lawsuit accusing Greensill of fraud....
...Judge Virginia DeMarchi in California told the US tech group to surrender Temur Akhmedov’s emails for use as evidence in a lawsuit brought by his mother, Tatiana Akhmedova, the wife of an ally of Vladimir...
...Alphaville was recently flipping through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) data dump from the US Treasury and came across loans for two entities called Delight Holdco I LLC and Delight Holdco II LLC....
...The biggest utility in Virginia, Dominion Energy, has also said it is preserving the option if necessary....
...Jeff Henriksen is the co-founder and CEO of Thorpe Abbotts Capital, a value-oriented hedge fund based out of Charlottesville, Virginia, and Associate Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School...
...Katrina Sherrerd CV Born 1957 Salary Not disclosed Education 1979 BS finance and management information systems, University of Virginia 1983 MS, MIT 1987 PhD in finance, University of Virginia Career...
...“What is happening to the writers is the same thing that is happening to coal miners in West Virginia,” said another top agency executive, who blames writers’ discontent on broader economic trends and the...
...William Hill said it planned to open five sportsbooks in five properties “within weeks,” in New Jersey, West Virginia and Mississippi....
...which spun out of its former parent Pax Labs to become an independent company just last year, is half the market capitalisation of 117-year-old tobacco group Imperial Brands, which owns Gauloises, Golden Virginia...
...Virginia-based Dominion, one of the largest US utility groups with a market capitalisation of about $50bn, has agreed to pay shares worth about $7.9bn for Scana’s equity, and is also taking on about $6.7bn...
...Kelly, Mr Trump’s new chief of staff, is said to be leading efforts to restore order in the White House and reassure Republicans alarmed by the president’s reaction to white nationalist-fuelled violence in Virginia...
...Within hours of the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, the fight between white supremacists and everyone else moved from the streets to the digital world....
...In Fredericksburg, Virginia, German retailers are trying to beat Walmart at its own game....
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