A review of Dana Mattioli's The Everything War, which covers Lina Khan's antitrust battle against Amazon and makes a case that no company should be so powerful
And How It Became “Too Toxic to Touch” Todd Bishop / GeekWire : ‘The Everything War’: Inside Amazon with author and Wall Street Journal reporter Dana Mattioli The Logic on Crowdcast : Amazon's road to...
Sources: health startups Cerebral and Done used looser pandemic rules and pressure on clinicians to prescribe stimulants, often via 30-minute online evaluations
Digital companies such as Cerebral and Done seized on looser pandemic rules for prescribing ADHD drugs like Adderall. Tweets: @cararlombardo and @rolfewinkler Tweets: Cara Lombardo / @cararlombardo : ...
Jana Partners urges Zendesk to abandon its plans to acquire Momentive, which owns SurveyMonkey, rather than wait for a shareholder vote; Zendesk closed up 7.36%
Cara Lombardo / Wall Street Journal :
Sources: Broadcom is no longer in talks to buy SAS after the founders of SAS had a change of heart and decided not to sell to Broadcom
Cara Lombardo / Wall Street Journal :
Sources: Salesforce has held talks about acquiring Slack, although a deal is not guaranteed
they've kind of become the tech acquirer of choice. Big enough to buy $20b businesses, small enough to avoid regulatory scrutiny. https://twitter.com/... Will Oremus / @willoremus : just a stray thoug...
Sources: Expedia is in advanced talks to sell a stake to Silver Lake and Apollo Global Management in a deal likely to total about $1B
Cara Lombardo / Wall Street Journal :
Xerox plans to end its $30B+ tender offer for HP and proxy fight to replace HP's board after the pandemic undercut its ability to execute a merger
Cara Lombardo / Wall Street Journal :
Sources: Intuit is nearing a deal to buy personal finance portal Credit Karma for about $7B in cash and stock; the deal could be announced as soon as Monday
Acquisition would be Intuit's largest ever and the first sizable transaction under CEO Sasan Goodarzi Tweets: @cararlombardo , @carnage4life , @bsteverman , @chriszeoli , @cararlombardo , @semil , @aa...
Xerox to sell 25% stake in joint venture to Fujifilm for ~$2.3B; Fujifilm's lawsuit against Xerox for walking away from a merger last year will be dismissed
Cara Lombardo / Wall Street Journal :
Dealogic: US tech IPOs, excluding Spotify's listing, raised ~$12.2B in 28 deals in the first half of 2018, nearly double the volume from the same period in 2017
Maureen Farrell / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @jason , @cararlombardo , @reformedbroker , and @michaelbatnick Tweets: @jason : This is exceptional for job growth, retirement savings & trickle down ...