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...Apart from a small number of big-ticket deals, tech M&A slumped in volume and value in the past 12 months, in part because of antitrust scrutiny from regulators on top of market volatility and high interest...
...It claimed this would hurt competition in the separate markets for console gaming, games libraries available through subscription, and cloud gaming....
...“Building upon our proven track record of successful M&A, this transaction combines our leading semiconductor and infrastructure software businesses with an iconic pioneer and innovator in enterprise software...
...At its apex is an oculus; the clouds were racing by when I visited, interrupted by flashes of blue....
...“For a company like Salesforce we don’t really see an M&A environment,” he said on a call with analysts....
...to intensify AMD’s battle with Intel for a bigger slice of the lucrative market for making chips used in data centres, whether they are run by individual companies for their own businesses or the vast cloud...
...Japan Inc has found a new purpose for automation: business continuity in the uncertain era of Covid-19....
...Hello from Hong Kong — my name is Eli, and I’m a newsletter writer and editor for the FT, standing in this week for Mercedes, who is taking a well-earned break....
...In this video, DD’s James Fontanella-Khan explains how it takes a lot more than a pill to ward off activists in the coronavirus climate....
...He adds: “I’m not saying it’s going to be easy, but it has to be on the agenda of the G20, given how important digital infrastructure is becoming.”...
...The Big Story China Inc is paying heavily for associations with Beijing’s “surveillance state”....
...Smart reads Cloud revolution There has been a changing of the guard in the software world....
...(Alphaville) Storm clouds Some of the world’s largest tech companies are hot on Amazon’s heels for a slice of the ever-expanding $266bn cloud-computing market....
...You can find the list of nominees in this article by DD’s Eric Platt and James Fontanella-Khan....
...Parker will hand the reins to John Donahoe next year, who is currently chief executive of cloud computing group ServiceNow and chairman of PayPal....
...DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...(FT) Warren v Wall Street? Elizabeth Warren is one of the country’s most prominent critics of Wall Street firms and big banks....
...James Smith, economist at ING: A full 2021 recovery is unlikely....
...(FT) Size isn’t everything As a titan of the M&A advisory business, Goldman Sachs has typically targeted blockbuster deals....
...And the deal is hardly defensive, as IBM believes it’s now the leader in “hybrid” clouds, the next generation of cloud computing....
...It was accepted by M&C’s independent directors, who had rebuffed two previous bids....
...The Seattle-based ecommerce giant has made about 130 acquisitions or investments since its debut in 1995, in a wide range of industries from books and music to cloud computing....
...It's an M&A special today, although none of the deals currently being mooted seem likely to happen....
...And who else but a company backed by deal shark John Malone on the hunt for blockbuster M&A?...
...Smart reads David v Goliath Large consumer goods companies are starting to feel the impact of their smaller, more innovative rivals....
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