M&A
Valeant close to buying 'female Viagra' maker Sprout for $1 bn
20 Aug 2015
Sprout Pharmaceuticals drug, which aims to boost a woman’s libido, yesterday received approval from the US FDA for its drug Addyi
PayPal acquires Chicago startup, Modest
19 Aug 2015
Cargill to buy Norwegian fish feed maker Ewos for $1.5 bn
18 Aug 2015
The proposed deal is the second Cargill has invested in aquaculture over the last month
Birla Corp to buy two cement plants in eastern India from LafargeHolcim for Rs5,000 cr
18 Aug 2015
The mega deal requires approval from regulators in around 17 countries, and the two companies would have to sell assets worth more than $11 billion to comply with competition concerns
Housing.com acquires HomeBuy360 for $2 mn
17 Aug 2015
Goldman to buy GE bank’s $16-bn of deposits
14 Aug 2015
Earlier this year, GE announced plans to divest the bulk of its banking operations to simplify its business and focus on its core operations
Roche to buy GeneWEAVE BioSciences
14 Aug 2015
Google’s Niantic Labs to become independent company
13 Aug 2015
The split with Niantic suggested that Google might be looking to slim itself as part of its proposed reorganisation
Pearson to sell stake in The Economist to Agnelli family for $731 mn
13 Aug 2015
Within three weeks of the sale of its popular Financial Times (FT) business newspaper, British publisher and education major Pearson Plc has sold a significant chunk of the coveted weekly publication The Economist