NYT M&A

JULY 3, 2025

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which ran the awards show until a couple of years ago, has voted to investigate the deal that sold the event to a joint venture.

Mergers & Acquisitions 68

Mergers & Acquisitions 68

NYT M&A

JUNE 9, 2025

The film and television giant will turn its cable networks, including CNN and TNT, into one company and its streaming and studios business into another.

Mergers & Acquisitions 141

Mergers & Acquisitions 141

NYT M&A

JUNE 18, 2025

The anti-establishment magazine, which was taken over by a private equity firm in 2017, was purchased this week by an avid fan and reader for $3.5 million.

Private Equity Firm 77

Private Equity Firm Equity Mergers & Acquisitions 77

NYT M&A

JUNE 2, 2025

Private equity firms like Blackstone are using their clients money to buy and build data centers to fuel the artificial intelligence boom.

Private Equity Firm 75

Private Equity Firm Equity Mergers & Acquisitions Technology 75

NYT M&A

JUNE 12, 2025

The Federal Trade Commission is considering restrictions on Omnicom and Interpublic to prevent the combined company from refusing to place ads on platforms for political reasons.

Mergers & Acquisitions 100

Mergers & Acquisitions Marketability 100

NYT M&A

JANUARY 14, 2025

The industry is pumping ever more oil and natural gas, but it is doing so with only about three-quarters as many workers as it employed a decade ago.

Mergers & Acquisitions 119

Mergers & Acquisitions 119

NYT M&A

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.

Mergers & Acquisitions 145

Mergers & Acquisitions 145

NYT M&A

JANUARY 14, 2025

Regulators filed a lawsuit in federal court stemming from Mr. Musks $44 billion purchase of the social media company now called X.

Mergers & Acquisitions 145

Mergers & Acquisitions 145

NYT M&A

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The new publicly traded company is set to debut next year, with a bundle of channels that also includes Oxygen, E! and Syfy.

Mergers & Acquisitions 145

Mergers & Acquisitions 145

NYT M&A

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The billionaire is leading a group of investors in the unsolicited offer, which complicates the start-ups plan to change its nonprofit status.

Start-ups 145

Start-ups Mergers & Acquisitions 145

NYT M&A

APRIL 17, 2025

The ruling was the second time in a year that a federal court had found that Google had acted illegally to maintain its dominance.

Mergers & Acquisitions 143

Mergers & Acquisitions 143

NYT M&A

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

How missed opportunities, a $1.5 billion real estate deal, all-you-can-eat shrimp and the global pandemic sank the country’s largest seafood chain.

Mergers & Acquisitions 143

Mergers & Acquisitions 143

NYT M&A

AUGUST 23, 2024

Convenience stores are a part of the country’s culture, meaning that the foreign buyout bid for 7-Eleven, the largest chain, could be a hard sell in Japan.

Mergers & Acquisitions 142

Mergers & Acquisitions 142

NYT M&A

JULY 30, 2024

Noisy Creek, a new media company, has bought The Stranger and The Portland Mercury, two of the country’s best known alternative weeklies.

Mergers & Acquisitions 142

Mergers & Acquisitions 142

NYT M&A

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Tucker Carlson, Nancy Grace, Megyn Kelly and Piers Morgan are among the clients of Red Seat Ventures, which now joins Rupert Murdochs empire.

Mergers & Acquisitions 142

Mergers & Acquisitions 142

NYT M&A

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In a landmark antitrust case, the government will ask a judge to force the company to sell its popular Chrome browser, people with knowledge of the matter said.

Mergers & Acquisitions 142

Mergers & Acquisitions 142

NYT M&A

AUGUST 6, 2024

Its chief executive thinks more acquisitions are on the horizon. Ziff Davis is acquiring CNET for more than $100 million.

Mergers & Acquisitions 141

Mergers & Acquisitions 141

NYT M&A

OCTOBER 21, 2024

David Hoffmann has already bought 5 percent of one of America’s largest newspaper companies. Now, he wants to control the whole thing.

Mergers & Acquisitions 141

Mergers & Acquisitions 141

NYT M&A

AUGUST 14, 2024

Mars is acquiring Kellanova in one of the largest deals in the industry in years, creating a new global giant with a stable of well-known brands.

Mergers & Acquisitions 141

Mergers & Acquisitions 141

NYT M&A

JULY 14, 2024

Microsoft’s all-in moment on artificial intelligence has been defined by billions in spending and a C.E.O. counting on technology with huge potential and huge risks.

Technology 141

Technology Mergers & Acquisitions 141

NYT M&A

AUGUST 26, 2024

As Kroger seeks to acquire Albertsons, federal regulators argue that the biggest supermarket combination in history will hurt not only consumers, but workers as well.

Mergers & Acquisitions 140

Mergers & Acquisitions 140

NYT M&A

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The supermarket chain had tried to join forces with Kroger, but judges sided with federal and state regulators who charged that the merger would reduce competition.

Mergers & Acquisitions 140

Mergers & Acquisitions 140

NYT M&A

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The arrival of DeepSeek shows us the competitive weaknesses of Americas tech giants.

Start-ups 140

Start-ups Mergers & Acquisitions 140

NYT M&A

AUGUST 6, 2024

Nearly a quarter-century after Microsoft lost a similar case, a judge’s decision that Google abused a monopoly in internet search is likely to have major ripple effects.

Mergers & Acquisitions 140

Mergers & Acquisitions Marketability 140

NYT M&A

AUGUST 19, 2024

Japan’s Seven & i Holdings, which operates 85,000 stores, said it had received a bid from the Canadian convenience store chain Alimentation Couche-Tard.

Mergers & Acquisitions 139

Mergers & Acquisitions 139

NYT M&A

AUGUST 19, 2024

The offer by Edgar Bronfman Jr. comes days before a crucial deadline in the scramble to acquire control of Paramount.

Mergers & Acquisitions 139

Mergers & Acquisitions 139

NYT M&A

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Will Lewis has said he has a mandate from the paper’s owner, Jeff Bezos, to grow the business, including through acquisitions.

Mergers & Acquisitions 139

Mergers & Acquisitions 139

NYT M&A

MARCH 28, 2025

Musk said the deal valued xAI, his artificial intelligence start-up, at $80 billion, and X at $30 billion.

Start-ups 139

Start-ups Mergers & Acquisitions 139

NYT M&A

AUGUST 9, 2024

After purchasing Twitter, Mr. Musk failed to cash out Omid Kordestani’s stock, according to allegations in a new lawsuit.

Mergers & Acquisitions 138

Mergers & Acquisitions 138

NYT M&A

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Intel was for decades Silicon Valley’s dominant chip company. But missed opportunities and poor execution left it on the sidelines in tech’s latest gold rush.

Mergers & Acquisitions 138

Mergers & Acquisitions 138

NYT M&A

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The Federal Trade Commission notched a victory in its efforts against the supermarket merger, which it sought to block over concerns about harm to shoppers and workers.

Mergers & Acquisitions 138

Mergers & Acquisitions 138

NYT M&A

JULY 22, 2024

Wiz’s chief executive said the company walked away from a “humbling offer” and would pursue an initial public offering instead.

Start-ups 137

Start-ups Mergers & Acquisitions 137

NYT M&A

JULY 26, 2024

In its first detailed response to a legal challenge, the agency said TikTok’s proposed changes wouldn’t prevent China from using it to collect U.S. users’ data or spread propaganda.

Mergers & Acquisitions 135

Mergers & Acquisitions 135

NYT M&A

AUGUST 2, 2024

The Washington Post is creating a division to find valuable audiences in new places. The C.E.O.’s s last company shows that’s a tough road.

Start-ups 135

Start-ups Mergers & Acquisitions 135

NYT M&A

MARCH 28, 2025

Federal prosecutors convinced a jury that Ms. Javice faked much of her customer list before selling her start-up, Frank, to the bank.

Start-ups 134

Start-ups Banking Mergers & Acquisitions 134

NYT M&A

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In a second antitrust trial that starts on Monday, the Justice Department has called for a breakup of the tech giant, which it says controls the vast majority of online advertising.

Technology 133

Technology Mergers & Acquisitions Marketability 133

NYT M&A

JULY 22, 2024

Kim Beom-Su, the billionaire behind Kakao, was taken into custody on Tuesday on allegations of stock manipulation during a bidding war over a major K-pop agency.

Mergers & Acquisitions 133

Mergers & Acquisitions 133