MoneyKey - CA Inc.

Apple’s ‘carbon neutral’ claims come under scrutiny

...Letter in response to this article: Why carbon offsets are no answer to the climate crisis / From Grayson Badgley, Research Scientist, CarbonPlan, San Francisco, CA, US...

October 24, 2023

Broadcom Inc

EU set to clear Broadcom’s $69bn acquisition of VMware

...Its software deals include the $18.9bn acquisition of CA Technologies and $10.7bn buyout of Symantec’s enterprise security business....

July 11, 2023

FT Live

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FT Alphaville

Might we, in fact, gotta hand it to Cathie Wood?

...🥰 From Borg: Cathie Wood has started buying Tesla Inc. shares after selling them for most of last year....

January 4, 2024

InterviewBroadcom Inc

Broadcom chief Hock Tan seeks more acquisitions after $69bn VMware deal

...By the end of 2018, Broadcom had closed a $18.9bn acquisition of CA Technologies, a software company known for its high-margin mainframe business....

February 3, 2023

FT CollectionsTech Exchange

Cristiano Amon: generative AI is ‘evolving very, very fast’ into mobile devices

...CA: We’re developing separate computing [processors] for AI....

January 4, 2024

Investing in funds

Index providers are massively dull — and massively profitable

...But given its estimate of 3.7mn indices in 2018 and reported annual growth rates of ca 3–5 per cent since then, there are now well over 4mn indices of different stripes....

March 19, 2024

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Unhedged

Is Uber’s buyback a good idea? Premium

...Letter in response to this article:Uber buyback reflects a confidence its best days are yet to come / From Dara Khosrowshahi, Chief Executive, Uber Technologies, San Francisco, CA, US...

February 15, 2024

Broadcom Inc

Broadcom’s $69bn VMware deal set for lengthy EU antitrust investigation

...They point to two recent transactions led by Broadcom, its $18.9bn takeover of CA Technologies in 2018 and its $10.7bn deal to buy Symantec’s enterprise security business a year later as recent examples...

June 23, 2022

The Big Read

The battle over TikTok

...Additional reporting by Eleanor Olcott, Cristina Criddle, and Kathrin Hille Letters in response to this article: TikTok battle makes US feel like a foreign country / From John Hartley, Venice, CA, US...

March 15, 2024

News in-depthPensions industry

Larry Fink’s retirement warning highlights fight over ‘hardest problem in finance’

...Letter in response to this article: No surprise Americans put aside so little in pensions / From Sim Gurewitz, El Cerrito, CA, US...

March 29, 2024

Passive Investing

Index funds now own more of Tesla than Musk

...(This is a record Tesla will probably retain as most normal companies tend to be consistently profitable — a condition for S&P 500 inclusion — long before they get a market cap of then-ca $440bn.)...

February 17, 2023

Dementia

Two Alzheimer’s drugs offer hope to patients after decades of waiting

...Researcher, Institute for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment (IZT), Berlin, Germany Beware the triumphalism around Alzheimer’s drugs / From Jeffrey Fessel, Emeritus Professor of Medicine, San Francisco, CA...

May 8, 2023

Brooke Masters

Three ways Big Tech got it wrong

...brooke.masters@ft.com Follow Brooke Masters with myFT and on Twitter Letters in response to this article: Why the term Big Tech usually makes me cringe / From Michael Ayres, San Francisco, CA, US For...

December 28, 2022

News in-depthSalesforce.com Inc

‘Everything should be on the table’: activists close in on Salesforce

...Letter in response to this report: Investors should look at Salesforce’s stock issuance / Ken Broad, Mill Valley, CA, US...

January 25, 2023

Television

Everything you don’t actually need to know about the economics of Succession

...end up with much more once Logan’s stake is carved up, given that the patriarch presumably still owns about 26 per cent of Waystar’s shares personally (the family’s 36 per cent overall stake minus the ca...

April 21, 2023

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Private equity

Is private equity actually worth it?

...For example: if Generic Greek God Capital is buying Widgetmaker Inc, 70 per cent of the equity it ponies up might come from one of its LBO funds....

March 5, 2024

Michael Moritz

Lyft wants a free ride from California’s richest

...Letter in response to this article: Why Moritz’s stance on California tax is a bit rich / From Sky Brown, Program Director, IE United, Ontario, CA, US...

October 11, 2022

Financial services

About that $4bn BREIT deal

...Yesterday there was a fairly major update on the saga, with this statement landing too late for the depleted FTAV team to hit at the time: Oakland, CA, and New York, January 3, 2023 — The Office of the...

January 4, 2023

LexBroadcom Inc

Broadcom/VMware: mature software stars are cash cows for the downturn Premium

...Tan pivoted to acquire CA Technologies and the enterprise security unit of Symantec, spending $30bn....

May 23, 2022

Broadcom Inc

Chipmaker Broadcom to buy software group VMware for $69bn

...Broadcom acquired enterprise software company CA Technologies for $18.9bn in 2018 and then purchased cyber security group Symantec a year later for $10.7bn, propelling it into the software sector....

May 26, 2022

News in-depthBroadcom Inc

Whirlwind talks led to Broadcom’s $69.1bn capture of VMware

...His first two software takeovers, CA Technologies and Symantec, targeted struggling and slow-growing companies that nonetheless were core infrastructure inside many of the world’s largest corporations....

May 27, 2022

Coronavirus

Covid could not sink cruise lines — but they now face an iceberg of debt

...Letter in response to this article: A sinking feeling faces the cruise ship tourist sector / From Richard Freeman, Kensington, CA, US...

July 1, 2022

LexPeloton Interactive Inc

Peloton/Amazon: sale would be healthy exorcise for zeitgeist peddler

...Letter in response to this article: Choice of McCarthy makes a Peloton sale less likely / From Alex Mayes, Laguna Beach, CA, US...

February 8, 2022

Undercover EconomistTim Harford

Why I won’t be launching my fantasy novels on Kickstarter

...It might have seemed obvious that when someone tried to raise CA$10,000 to make an antipasto salad on the site, they would get no takers at all....

March 25, 2022

The FT ViewThe editorial board

Markets are showing signs of frothing over

...Letter in response to this article: Crypto comes of age with LA stadium renaming / From David Spirakis, Venice, CA, US...

November 19, 2021

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