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International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) is in talks to buy Sun Microsystems Inc., people familiar with the matter said, a combination that would bolster IBM’s heft on the Internet, in software, and in finance and telecommunications markets.
The two ...
From MATTHEW KARNITSCHNIG, WILLIAM M. BULKELEY AND JUSTIN SCHECK,
livemint.com,
18 Mar 2009
Sirius XM Radio CEO Mel Karmazin, above, is a longtime adversary of Charles Ergen, the satellite-TV pioneer.
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John Malone's Liberty Media was near a deal late Monday to invest in Sirius XM Radio in return for a major stake, ...
From MATTHEW KARNITSCHNIG,
Denver Post,
16 Feb 2009
Pfizer Inc. on Monday agreed to pay $68 billion (Rs3.35 trillion) to acquire rival Wyeth, in the largest pharmaceutical deal in nearly a decade.
Separately, Pfizer said fourth quarter (Q4) net income plunged 90% on $2.3 billion in litigation charges ...
From MATTHEW KARNITSCHNIG,
livemint.com,
26 Jan 2009
When it comes to American International Group, there is really only one question that matters: Can the New York insurer raise enough money through asset sales to repay as much as about $100 billion in government aid?
As the economic crisis deepens and ...
From MATTHEW KARNITSCHNIG,
Wall Street Journal,
2 Dec 2008
As we learned on Tuesday, the Troubled Asset Relief Program isnt exactly fulfilling the promise of its name.
But according to some influential observers it may not be large enough to fulfill its new function to recapitalize the U.S. banking system. ...
From MATTHEW KARNITSCHNIG,
Wall Street Journal,
13 Nov 2008
When Jeff Bewkes was named Time Warner CEO last year he was feted by some colleagues as a modern day “Galileo” whose vision for remaking the media conglomerate would confound company critics.
Mr. Bewkes, an early skeptic of Time Warner’s 2001 merger ...
From MATTHEW KARNITSCHNIG,
Wall Street Journal,
6 Aug 2008
An up-to-the-minute take on deals and deal makers.
The Pentagon is surely hoping that the electronic gear produced by Harris Corp. is more reliable than its bookkeeping.
Shares of the military-technology and communications company have fallen nearly ...
From MATTHEW KARNITSCHNIG,
Wall Street Journal,
5 Aug 2008
M&A practitioners often compare the circuitous yet predictable course of deal negotiations to the carefully-choreographed movements of Japanese kabuki.
Microsofts pursuit of Yahoo, in contrast, has looked more like Steve Ballmers wildly famous Monkey ...
From MATTHEW KARNITSCHNIG,
Wall Street Journal,
22 Jul 2008
An up-to-the-minute take on deals and deal makers.
Few may have more reason to celebrate Verizon Wireless’s $28.1 billion deal for Alltel than the bank that engineered the transaction: Morgan Stanley.
After a stretch of bad luck, the investment bank, ...
From MATTHEW KARNITSCHNIG,
Wall Street Journal,
5 Jun 2008
Most people have never heard of Evonik Industries, the German industrial conglomerate that Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Bain Capital, CVC Capital Partners and Blackstone Group have been circling.
Evonik is a relatively recent invention but its main ...
From MATTHEW KARNITSCHNIG,
Wall Street Journal,
2 Jun 2008
