@WSJ 2 years ago The U.K.’s competition regulator said Wednesday that it would need to conduct a fresh investigation into any changes made to Microsoft’s $75 billion Activision acquisition aimed at winning approval for the deal on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago Buyout shop TPG is acquiring a business unit of software provider Forcepoint for $2.45 billion, a price tag that is more than double what technology-focused private-equity firm Francisco Partners paid for Forcepoint in 2021 on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago Investors spent nearly $1 billion buying land near an Air Force base in California. Officials are investigating who exactly they are. on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago George Soros’s $25 billion nonprofit, Open Society Foundations, will cut its staff by about 40% while reorganizing various senior roles on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago ESPN has cut about 20 on-screen commentators, part of Disney CEO Robert Iger’s plan to cut 7,000 jobs across the company and save $5.5 billion in costs on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago Taylor Swift’s epic “Eras Tour” is on track to become the biggest in concert history, with the potential to gross over $1 billion. Here’s the breakdown of how much money the singer is generating on tour. on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago Employees often cite the dreaded commute as their biggest reason for avoiding the office. But one of America’s most prominent landlords is featuring the commute as a selling point for a $1.2 billion real-estate project surrounding Manhattan's Penn Station. on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago The White House kicked off a flood of new funding for state governments to spend on internet projects from the $1 trillion infrastructure law passed in 2021, with Texas topping the list of future recipients with $3.3 billion of funding on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago IBM is close to a deal to acquire software company Apptio for about $5 billion, in a move that would bring the technology giant greater automation capabilities on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago Drones sweep across the Himalayan sky on a mission for India: scouring the terrain for Chinese troops along the two countries’ border. A $3 billion deal to buy new drones from the U.S. will aid the effort. on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago A Ford Motor joint venture is set to get a record $9.2 billion loan from the Energy Department to finance battery plants in Tennessee and Kentucky on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago Farmer and consumer groups warn that the planned $8.2 billion deal uniting Bunge and Viterra could leave farmers with fewer options for selling crops and drive up food prices on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago Microsoft and Activision Blizzard can complete their $75 billion deal before the Federal Trade Commission begins a process to challenge the merger in August, a judge has ruled on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago Investors spent nearly $1 billion buying land near an Air Force base in California. Officials are investigating who exactly they are. on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago New York state spent nearly $1 billion building Elon Musk’s Tesla a solar-panel factory. The payoff has been meager. on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago With housing in short supply, developers are converting more empty offices into apartments. But not all buildings are candidates for reuse, even as more than one billion square feet of office space sits vacant across the country. on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago Should investors take heart from the $2 billion deal for 245 Park Avenue? on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago Fake transactions inflated Chinese regional governments’ revenues by around $12 billion last year. The national auditor said they sold state-owned assets and land to themselves. on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago China’s local government funding problems last year were at least $12 billion worse than most economists thought. Around 70 regions inflated their local fiscal revenues after a series of fictitious sales of land and other state-owned assets. on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago The Supreme Court dealt a setback to Apple and Broadcom, declining to hear an appeal filed by the companies in a billion-dollar patent case brought by the California Institute of Technology on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago SpaceX is seeking to increase its valuation to around $150 billion in a new sale of employee shares on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago Listen: In today’s episode of The Journal podcast, @bobmcmillan explains how North Korean hackers stole $3 billion in crypto over the last five years, and the concerns about how they're using the money on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago A judge is set to hear arguments in the FTC’s lawsuit seeking to block Microsoft from acquiring Activision Blizzard, a case that could determine the fate of their $75 billion proposed deal on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago Watch: T.J. Maxx and Marshall’s parent company TJX made almost $50 billion last year – more than Nordstrom and Macy’s combined. WSJ explains how. on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago Investors spent nearly $1 billion buying land near an Air Force base in California. Officials are investigating who exactly they are. on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago Investors spent nearly $1 billion buying land near an Air Force base in California. Officials are investigating who exactly they are. on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago New York state spent nearly $1 billion building Elon Musk’s Tesla a solar-panel factory. The payoff has been meager. on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago The new king of American beers is a Mexican import. And the coronation of Modelo Especial began 10 years ago when one man blocked a $20 billion deal. on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago Watch: More than 23,000 songs are identified each minute by Shazam and the app has been used over 70 billion times. Here's how Shazam creates unique fingerprints to identify songs in noisy environments. on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago More than 23,000 songs are identified each minute by Shazam and the app has been used over 70 billion times. Here's how Shazam creates unique audio fingerprints to identify millions of songs. on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago Over $2.3 billion of commercial real estate projects are under construction or in the pipeline for Fort Worth, America’s fastest-growing major city on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago Taylor Swift’s epic “Eras Tour” is on track to become the biggest in concert history, with the potential to gross over $1 billion. Here’s the breakdown of how much money the singer is generating on tour. on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago Drones sweep across the Himalayan sky on a mission for India: scouring the terrain for Chinese troops along the two countries’ border. A $3 billion deal to buy new drones from the U.S. will aid the effort. on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago 3M agreed to pay up to $12.5 billion to settle hundreds of lawsuits brought by cities that said their drinking water was contaminated with “forever chemicals” the company made for decades (corrects typo) on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 2 years ago The European Commission proposed on Monday a four-year, $54 billion financial package to reconstruct Ukraine, on the eve of a major conference of Ukraine’s allies in London to discuss rebuilding a country devastated by war. nyti.ms
@WSJ 2 years ago Shell outlined plans to boost its dividend, buy back $5 billion in shares and reduce capital spending on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago Massachusetts lawmakers are weighing a near total ban on buying and selling of location data drawn from consumers’ mobile devices in the state, in what would be a first-in-the-nation effort to rein in a billion-dollar industry on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago Ant Group was fined close to $1 billion by China’s financial regulators. Regulators said Ant violated laws and regulations when it conducted banking and insurance activities and engaged in payment and settlement businesses in past years. on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago The new king of American beers is a Mexican import. And the coronation of Modelo Especial began 10 years ago when one man blocked a $20 billion deal. on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago The new king of American beers is a Mexican import. And the coronation of Modelo Especial began 10 years ago when one man blocked a $20 billion deal. on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago The Justice Department said charges had been filed against 78 people in connection with allegations of more than $2.5 billion in attempted healthcare fraud on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago Fake transactions inflated Chinese regional governments’ revenues by around $12 billion last year. The national auditor said they sold state-owned assets and land to themselves. on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago Taylor Swift’s epic “Eras Tour” is on track to become the biggest in concert history, with the potential to gross over $1 billion. Here’s the breakdown of how much money the singer is generating on tour. on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 2 years ago European Union countries have agreed to donate a further 3.5 billion euros, or about $3.8 billion, to a fund used for military aid for Ukraine, the bloc’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell Fontelles, said on Monday. nyti.ms
@WSJ 2 years ago Zambia’s deal with China and Western creditors to extend repayment of $6.3 billion in loans is a possible blueprint for developing countries indebted to Beijing on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago 3M greed to pay up to $12.5 billion to settle hundreds of lawsuits brought by cities that said their drinking water was contaminated with “forever chemicals” the company made for decades on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago At least 23% of the $88 billion spent annually by marketers on automated digital ad buying on the open web is a waste, according to a report from a trade group on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago A former Samsung executive was indicted in South Korea, accused of starting a company that attracted about $6 billion in investments to build a China-based chip factory using Samsung’s factory blueprints and other engineering secrets on.wsj.com