Mergers and Acquisitions | Page 5

The electronics giant previously shunned big acquisitions, and the latest deal underscores a strategic shift as the company tries to break into the high-barrier automotive industry where it has little track record.

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Blackberry has signed a deal with Ford Motor Co.

It was not clear why there was such a marked decline in the proportion of women leaders at Yahoo, which is led by Silicon Valley's most powerful female CEO, Marissa Mayer.

Brad Feld of TechStars says the new deal reflects the need to establish linkage between the 'content' and 'network' layers.

The boards of directors of both companies have approved the deal, but it must still pass muster with regulators.

Acquisitions have led to a flurry of activity in the business world in the last year and the pace isn't letting up.

Verizon has had preliminary briefings from Yahoo but it still needs 'significant information' from the company before it makes a final decision on the acquisition.

Last month Yahoo said at least 500 million of its accounts were hacked in 2014.

Cabela's has struggled with declining sales of apparel and footwear and has reported same-store sales growth in only one quarter in more than three years.

Had Jet grown into the company some hoped it would, New Jersey would have an anchor tenant that attracted other innovators.

Onevest recently purchased FounderDating to better connect entrepreneurs with potential co-founders.

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We'll give you a hint: It gives the Windows maker a network of professionals that will potentially buy its services.

'Today is a re-founding moment for LinkedIn,' Reid Hoffman, chairman of LinkedIn's board, said in a statement.

Yahoo is expected to hold at least one more round of bidding, and the offers could change by the final round, the paper reported.

Enrico, who died at age 71 on June 1, helped Pepsi rival Coke and dive deeper into the food business.

A news report, citing sources close to the talks, said execs at the two firms had met several weeks ago and had spent several hours looking at whether a strategic combination might make sense.

The transaction, slated to close in the third quarter, is not expected to have an impact on the company's 2016 sales or earnings forecasts.

The decision comes three weeks after a U.S. federal judge ordered to halt the deal because of antitrust concerns.

HPE is expected to have $33 billion in annual revenue after the spinoff and will concentrate on its remaining enterprise group that includes its cloud services business and makes servers, routers and switches.