Here you will find all the articles with the tag: acquisitions.
The United States is coming up with stricter guidelines for larger companies looking to make acquisitions. The new guidelines that have been presented seem to be aimed primarily at big tech, or Amazon, Facebook (Meta), Google (Alphabet) and Microsoft. This should give the FTC and the U.S. Departmen... Read more
9 months ago
Salesforce is engaged in a hefty battle at the board level with several activist shareholders. These believe that Salesforce is performing far below its potential and that things must improve. Revenue and especially profit needs to go up. One of the demands of Elliot Management, the largest activis... Read more
1 year ago
Visma's turnover totalled €2.06 billion in 2022, up 19 percent from 2021. The firm cited its fast-paced acquisition strategy as the driving force behind growth. 42 companies were acquired in Visma's target markets of Europe and Latin America. By the end of the year, the total transaction value... Read more
1 year ago
Telecom Italia is taking the steps required to respond to a $38 billion (€34 billion) buyout offer from US investment company KKR. According to sources from Reuters, Telecom Italia has enlisted the help of banks to draw up business plans to follow up on KKR's interest. In November of this year... Read more
2 years ago
Palo Alto Networks is not planning to make any large acquisitions after spending $3.46 billion on 12 acquisitions since 2018. According to Chairman and CEO Nikesh Arora, the Santa Clara, California-based security vendor has had to be more careful when checking out acquisition targets since it al... Read more
3 years ago
Fujitsu has an extensive M&A program that it calls ‘transformation services in a very competitive’ market. The Japanese tech company has come up with 20 potential companies that it would like to acquire. An acquisition consultant from McKinsey, Nicholas Fraser, joined the company last ye... Read more
3 years ago
A spinoff would give VMware the chance to work with more hardware manufacturers. Speaking to CNBC this week, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger said that a spinoff from parent company Dell could open up a wide range of new opportunities. Such a spinoff would not, after all, come as a surprise. Dell's ... Read more
4 years ago
Nvidia wants to acquire ARM from the Japanese Softbank. Both parties have agreed to the acquisition, and it is now up to the authorities to approve this takeover. Our opinion is that this takeover should be blocked. This is a bad plan for the semiconductor industry as well as for all countries that... Read more
4 years ago
