It’s Salesforce’s largest acquisition to date. Here we go again. On Wednesday, Salesforce announced plans to buy e-commerce specialist Demandware in a $75 per share cash deal worth $2.8 billion. This deal, the largest...
$1.3B BP Norway Merger Could Challenge Statoil
BP Plc, which operates in Norway, agreed to a US$1.3 billion merger with its Norwegian counterpart Det Norske Oljeselskap, in a move slated to cut costs and challenge Statoil’s dominance of the Nordic country’s energy...
5 non-life insurers eye merger
Five non-life insurance companies plan a big merger before the end of 2016 to meet the minimum capital stock of P550 million, an industry source said over the weekend. The source identified two of the companies with...
SEBI and FMC: The story of a merger that took a dozen years
At an internal meeting in the Department of Economic Affairs in 2002, senior officials were discussing financial market reforms that could potentially follow the good deal of work done on the equity markets front...
SendHub Joins International IT Experts Cameo Global
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA (PRWEB) JUNE 06, 2016 International Cloud Telecoms magnate Cameo Global recently acquired SendHub, a leading business messaging startup, welcoming the brand to Cameo’s network of technology...
Monster Acquires Jobr
WESTON, Mass., June 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Monster Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: MWW), a global leader in connecting jobs and people, today announced that it has acquired Jobr, the leading mobile job discovery app...
Sanctuary Group and Housing & Care 21 announce merger plans
Housing and care providers Sanctuary Group and Housing & Care 21 are to merge to create a new operation within Sanctuary Group specialising in the provision of housing for older people. Sanctuary 21 will manage over...
Mergers gone wrong: A decade’s worst deals
The ink isn’t even dry on Verizon’s (VZ) $4.4 billion buyout of AOL. But investors are already recounting some of the ugliest mergers in history – and hoping this won’t become one of them. The rogue’s gallery of...
Vodafone NZ in merger talks with Sky
Vodafone NZ is considering a merger with Sky, the pay-TV operator has confirmed after its shares on the New Zealand Stock Exchange (NZX) were placed in a trading halt on Wednesday. “Following recent media...
What To Do About Your Brand After A Merger
Mergers and acquisitions are heating up in nearly every industry. In January alone, global activity in the pharma industry totaled $56 billion, more than double the total at the same time a few years ago, theFinancial...
Shell to exit up to 10 countries after BG acquisition
Royal Dutch Shell said it will sell up to 10 percent of its oil and gas production, leaving up to 10 countries after its $54 billion acquisition of BG Group. Presenting its strategy outlook, Shell plans to keep annual...
Schlumberger acquires Saltel Industries
Schlumberger announced today the acquisition of Saltel Industries, a France-based engineering, manufacturing and service company that offers expandable patches and steel packers technology for the oil and gas industry...