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Barclays Report Fuels Tesla-SpaceX Merger Bets as Prediction Markets Surge
Prediction market odds of a Tesla-SpaceX merger before March 2027 jumped to 56% from 29% after a Barclays report outline...
Armenian Ineco Group to Take Majority Stake in Slovenia's Hranilnica Lon
The owners of Hranilnica Lon signed a deal to sell a majority stake to IGS Holding, controlled by Armenia's Ineco Group,...
Northbatt Enters German Industrial Battery Market via Insolvency Asset Deal
The battery group has bought an unnamed German industrial battery operation out of insolvency and launched WestBatt, bet...
Amplifon’s GN Hearing Deal Wins Analyst Backing as It Enters Manufacturing
Morgan Stanley, Citi, J.P. Morgan and Intermonte have endorsed the acquisition, which would move Amplifon into hearing-d...
Samsung Fire & Marine Seen Lifting Canopius Stake to 90% for $1.47bn
Korean reports say Samsung Fire & Marine and Samsung Life may buy another 50% of specialty re/insurer Canopius, building...
Mubadala Capital Strikes Majority Deal for Freight Broker Arrive Logistics
Arrive Logistics has agreed to sell a majority stake to Mubadala Capital, with ATL Partners and Lead Edge Capital retain...
Alliant to Acquire AI-Native Benefits Brokerage Nava, Betting on a New Operating Model
The deal pairs Alliant's national scale and advisory expertise with Nava's HQ platform, which reports resolving 81% of m...
Stripe Strikes Reported $7 Billion Deal for AI Startup OpenRouter
Stripe is said to have agreed to buy AI model-routing startup OpenRouter for about $7 billion, a sharp premium to its la...
Nielsen's $2.15B DoubleVerify Bet Is About Owning What AI Models Measure
Nielsen is paying a 30% premium for DoubleVerify not for growth, but to control the verification layer that automated ad...
EFinance Bets on New Non-Banking Deals as Profit Jumps 62.5%
EFinance has taken full control of SME and microfinance provider Tamweely and a minority stake in Welsy, extending its e...
C&S Wholesale Grocers to Take Majority Control of Winn-Dixie
The deal, expected to close early next year, deepens the wholesaler's push into Southeast grocery retail and adds the Fl...
Charter and Cox Plan $34.5 Billion Cable Merger With FCC Hurdle Ahead
The proposed Charter-Cox tie-up would combine 38 million customers behind the Spectrum consumer brand, but FCC chair Bre...
Anthropic in Talks to Buy AI Startup Decart for $6 Billion Ahead of IPO
Anthropic is reportedly negotiating a $6 billion acquisition of Israeli AI startup Decart, whose world-model and chip-ef...
Croatia's Uljanik Sale Heads to Binding Offers, Iskra Taking a Look
Nine tender documents were sold ahead of the 18 August binding-offer deadline for Croatia's last state-owned shipyard, U...
EU Clears Volkswagen’s €7.4 Billion Sale of Engine Unit Everllence to Bain Capital
Brussels sees no competition concerns in the 51% stake sale, unlocking €7.4 billion for Volkswagen and leaving Everllenc...
Kushner and Iger Agree to $12.5 Billion Los Angeles Lakers Takeover
The reported deal values the NBA franchise at a US record $12.5 billion, marking a rapid flip after last year's $10 bill...
Kushner and Iger to Buy Los Angeles Lakers in Record $12.5 Billion Deal
The investor and former Disney CEO agreed to acquire a majority stake from Mark Walter, setting a new high for a U.S. sp...
Viant's Proprietary Data Surge Collides With Ad Tech's Fast-Accelerating M&A Wave
Viant’s 34% revenue jump, a wave of $2bn ad tech deals and TIME’s chatbot-influence ad backlash signal the end of neutra...
Metaplanet’s Siiibo Securities Buy Paves Way for Bitcoin-Backed Financial Products
The Japanese bitcoin treasury is betting a newly acquired securities firm can turn its crypto holdings into a regulatory...
Kushner and Iger Agree to Reported $12 Billion Los Angeles Lakers Purchase
The reported $12 billion-plus acquisition from Mark Walter would surpass the Seattle Seahawks sale, making the Lakers th...
Fortuna Mining Doubles Down on Senegal Gold with $200M Bambadji Acquisition
The Canadian miner buys the Bambadji property adjacent to its Diamba Sud project, aiming to create a district-scale oper...
Schneider Electric Acquires AiDASH for $350M to Boost Grid Climate Resilience with Satellite AI
France’s Schneider Electric has agreed to buy a 90% stake in US startup AiDASH, which uses satellite imagery and AI to h...
System1’s Behavioral Psychology Edge Faces Test as Brave Bison Circles
Once a market darling for its Kahneman-inspired ad testing, System1 has plunged to microcap status. Now a takeover bid f...
GO Residential Becomes Canada’s Second-Largest REIT With $2.8B H&R Acquisition
GO Residential is set to acquire H&R REIT’s portfolio in a cash-and-units deal that vaults it into the No. 2 spot among ...
Why Fairfax’s €300 M. Evergood Pursuit Is More Than Just Another Restaurant Deal
Prem Watsa’s Fairfax, already a force in Canadian and UK dining, is in talks to acquire Greek multi-brand platform Everg...
Italian Sea Group Opens Formal Auction to Avert Collapse, Rivals Sanlorenzo and Ferretti Show Interest
The Italian Sea Group, builder of Admiral and Perini Navi yachts, has kicked off a formal auction to find rescue investo...
French Broker Odealim Enters UK Market with Six-Firm Leicester Deal
Odealim Group, backed by TA Associates and Ardian, has acquired six Leicester-based insurance and advisory firms includi...
MENA M&A Deals Dip to $46.7bn in H1 2026, but Q2 Momentum Signals Market Resilience
EY’s H1 report records 390 deals worth $46.7bn, down from 434 a year ago, yet surging Q2 activity and large-scale transa...
euShipments.com Buys Slovak Fulfillment Operator in Pan-European Push
Bulgarian logistics group euShipments.com acquires 100% of Slovakia's FHB Group, adding €23M turnover, automated facilit...
GameStop's Cohen Weighs Scrapping $56B eBay Bid for Store Partnership
Ryan Cohen is reportedly considering pulling GameStop's unsolicited $56 billion offer for eBay and instead proposing a c...