Intel's foundry business lost $13B+ on $17.5B in revenue in 2024, while TSMC generated $41.1B in operating profit on $90B in revenue over the same period
What's at Stake? Skye Jacobs / TechSpot : Intel considers breakup as Broadcom and TSMC explore separate deals AleksandarK / TechPowerUp : Intel Faces Potential Breakup as TSMC and Broadcom Explore Acq...
SEC filing: Activision CEO Bobby Kotick would get $15M if Microsoft fires him without cause; Phil Spencer began acquisition talks three days after WSJ's exposé
Sources: Activision Blizzard tried to find other buyers, including Meta, while weighing a potential Microsoft takeover after the WSJ's exposé in November
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Sources: IBM is exploring a sale of its IBM Watson Health business, which has roughly $1B in annual revenue and isn't currently profitable
WSJ reports IBM exploring sale of Watson Health business https://www.wsj.com/... Jeffrey Snover / @jsnover : I always considered Watson a pixie dust marketing ploy aimed at the low tech-competent exec...
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: WSJ plans to join the new paid tier of Apple News to be announced on Monday, expected to cost $10/month; NYT and The Washington Post have opted out
SAN FRANCISCO — The Wall Street Journal plans to join a new paid subscription news service run by Apple, according to two people familiar …
WSJ: new investors in Snap IPO won't get any voting power; founders Spiegel and Murphy, who own 45% of Snap's stock, will retain 70%+ of voting rights
Spiegel and Snapchat co-founder Bobby Murphy want to retain management control of their company. — Before Facebook went public …
Sources: Wal-Mart is in talks to buy online retailer Jet.com; one source says Jet.com could be valued at up to $3B in private markets
Thursday, August 4, 2016 Mike Flacy / Digital Trends : Can a Jet.com acquisition help Walmart compete with Amazon? Teresa Novellino / Upstart Business Journal : Wal-Mart reportedly looking to acquire ...
Sources: Apple in exploratory talks to acquire Tidal, Jay Z's streaming music service; Tidal held similar talks with Rhapsody last year
it has only 3 million Jack Purcher / Patently Apple : Contrary to Tidal's Denial, Sources Say Apple is in Talks with Jay Z and Company Don Reisinger / Fortune : Here's Why Apple Should Buy Tidal Anna ...
Oracle paid north of $1.2B for Datalogix, says WSJ
Barb Darrow / Gigaom :