M&A
Fidelity National to buy financial software maker SunGard Data Systems for $9.1 bn
12 Aug 2015
US payment services provider Fidelity National Information Services Inc (FIS) today struck a deal to buy privately-held financial software maker SunGard Data Systems Inc for $9.1 billion, including debt
Symantec Corp to sell data storage unit Veritas for $8 bn
12 Aug 2015
The deal, the biggest US leveraged buyout this year, would give Symantec much-needed funds to compete in the cyber security market with Microsoft , Intel and Kaspersky Labs
Capital One to buy GE Healthcare Finance for $9 bn
12 Aug 2015
Capital One, which has emerged as the seventh largest US bank, hopes to bolster its healthcare lending operations through the acquisition
Alibaba invests $4.6 bn in electronics retailer Suning
11 Aug 2015
The investment demonstrates Alibaba’s appetite for brick-and-mortar selling space despite its dominant position in online shopping
Google restructured under holding arm `Alphabet’, Sundar Pichai made CEO
11 Aug 2015
Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be the CEO and president of Alphabet, respectively while chairman Eric Schmidt will continue in that role at Alphabet as well
IBM to acquire medical image firm Merge Healthcare for $1 bn
07 Aug 2015
IBM plans to combine data and images from Merge Healthcare's medical imaging management platform with Watson's cloud-based healthcare computing system
US fertilizer giant CF Industries to buy European rival OCI’s assets for $8 bn
07 Aug 2015
CF Industries Holdings Inc is acquiring Dutch rival OCI NV’s European and North American plants and global distribution for approximately $8 billion, in a bid to create the world’s biggest publicly-traded nitrogen producer
Pershing Square builds $5.5-bn stake in Mondelez
06 Aug 2015
Activist investor William A Ackman has amassed a $5.5-billion stake in Mondelez in case it becomes takeover target
Baxalta rejects drugmaker Shire’s approach
05 Aug 2015
US print services giant RR Donnelley to split into three
05 Aug 2015
The three companies will focus on financial communications and data services, publishing and retail print services and multichannel communications management
Microsoft buys Incent Games, aims to boost sales
04 Aug 2015
UK govt may start RBS stake sale
03 Aug 2015
The British government is set to begin selling its majority stake in banking giant the Royal Bank of Scotland Plc (RBS), seven years after it was bailed out