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...Under BC Partners, Presidio has grown rapidly, including through the acquisitions of Irish IT business Arkphire and cloud technology company Coda....
...Figma and Australia-based Canva are prominent developers of cloud-based design tools....
...Beijing is weighing holding up US chipmaker Broadcom’s $69bn acquisition of cloud software company VMware — a move that would come soon after Washington toughened rules to block Chinese access to high-performance...
...The US government has codified its scepticism in revised “merger guidelines”....
...News round-up Lenders flying blind on private equity risk, Bank of England warns (FT) Employee non-compete agreements barred by US regulator (FT) IBM nears deal for cloud-software provider (WSJ) Tesla...
...The moves are the biggest overhaul in Google parent Alphabet’s structure since the merger of its DeepMind and Google Brain AI units a year ago....
...The talks collapsed at the weekend over the Japanese group’s refusal to allow Zee’s chief executive to stay on after the merger....
...Tech mergers and acquisitions fell sharply in 2023, amid heightened antitrust scrutiny for Big Tech companies and falling start-up valuations....
...Hewlett Packard Enterprise has agreed to acquire Juniper Networks for about $14bn, highlighting a growing appetite by chief executives to return to large-scale dealmaking after a sharp decline in merger...
...Figma’s cloud-based collaboration tools lets creative professionals work together in real time....
...US chipmaker Broadcom will complete its acquisition of cloud software company VMware on Wednesday, the two companies announced after China approved the $69bn deal....
...And in 2021, Restaurant Brands paid $1bn in cash for Firehouse Subs....
...Cloud computing businesses are also an interesting case. Do they have true network effects, or just high switching costs? Do incremental advantages of scale in cloud computing diminish at some point?...
...US chipmaker Broadcom and cloud software company VMware have delayed the completion of their $69bn merger, which had been scheduled to close on Monday, as they await approval from China....
...Bloomberg) Fund managers urge European regulators to mirror US move to T+1 (FT) Thomas Cook owner Fosun to sell brand to Poland’s eSky (SKY News) UK government vows to protect litigation funding that helped sub-postmasters...
...The European Commission on Friday ruled out a review of the merger because, it said, it did not constitute a new deal....
...EMC’s premier asset was its 81 per cent stake in VMware, a cloud computing specialist which last week was sold to Broadcom for $92bn....
...Mergers can be good or bad for consumers. Bigger companies can pass scale benefits on. Dominant ones hog markets and inhibit competition....
...Responding to concerns from some mergers and acquisitions advisers that Britain’s merger regime had been thrown into confusion by months of twists and turns on the Microsoft deal, Raftery argued that companies...
...invested in Mistral, the Paris-based AI start-up that was valued at €2bn this month, and has also backed Hugging Face, a provider of data and tools for AI developers that was valued at $4.5bn in August, and cloud...
...China’s regulators are threatening his $69bn takeover of cloud software group VMware by not signing off on the blockbuster acquisition, according to the FT’s Qianer Liu, Cheng Leng and Ryan McMorrow....
...Under the latest terms, Microsoft cannot release Activision Blizzard games exclusively on its own cloud streaming service Xbox Cloud Gaming....
...Douglas Farrar, FTC spokesperson, said the agency was “disappointed in this outcome given the clear threat this merger poses to open competition in cloud gaming, subscription services, and consoles....
...One paper in this area caught my eye recently, “Standardizing and Unbundling the Sub Rosa DIP Loan”, co-authored by researchers Kenneth Ayotte and Alex Huang of UC Berkeley School of Law....
...Bloomberg earlier reported details of the cloud discussions. Microsoft and Activision Blizzard declined to comment....
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