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Building a Business

Here Are 6 Considerations When You’re Thinking of Selling Your Business

Incredible opportunity, both personal and professional, can come from a sale. But you've also got to be prepared for what lies ahead.

By Nellie Akalp

Building a Business

PayPal Makes Its First Acquisition Post eBay Split

By Leena Rao

Online Presence

Why Disney’s $500 Million Acquisition of Maker Studios Is Proving Less Than Picture Perfect

By Geoff Weiss

Business News

QVC’s Parent Company Buys Online Retailer Zulily for $2.4 Billion

By Reuters

Business Accounting

5 Questions to Ask Before Acquiring a Business

What's your readiness score?

By Jeffrey Concepcion

Building a Business

U.S. Dealmaking at Record Year-to-Date High

Merger and acquisition activity has been boosted by a handful of mega-deals.

By Reuters

Online Presence

Twitter Reportedly in Talks to Buy Flipboard

The social network is rumored to be exploring an all-stock deal that would value the social news reader at more than $1 billion.

By Nina Zipkin

Business News

Why a Yahoo-AOL Merger Didn’t Happen

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer discusses content and distribution at Fortune's Most Powerful Women event in New York.

By Erin Griffith

Building a Business

Don’t Even Think About M&A Until You’ve Mastered These 5 Practices

Your hardest days as an entrepreneur will happen between your suitor's first email and shareholder approval, a year later.

By Tasso Roumeliotis

Thought Leaders

What Will AOL’s Tim Armstrong Bring to Verizon?

Experts weigh in on what the AOL's CEO will do for the U.S. wireless carrier.

By Nina Zipkin

Business News

Salesforce May Be Up for Sale

The cloud computing giant is reportedly listening to takeover offers. Could Microsoft be interested?

By Dan Primack

Business News

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong: Merger With Yahoo Is a ‘Dead Notion’

Like Netflix and Yahoo, AOL is pushing into the market for original content.

By Tom DiChristopher

Tech

Why Mark Cuban Thinks the Comcast-Time Warner Cable Deal Fell Apart

The feisty billionaire investor and 'Shark Tank' star sounded off about the failed mega merger on Twitter and -- no surprise -- he's pointing the finger at the FCC.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

Business News

Upping Its Security Cred, BlackBerry Buys Software Maker WatchDox

This is the latest in a line of acquisitions for BlackBerry.

By Reuters

Building a Business

Raytheon to Buy Cybersecurity Company Websense for $1.9 Billion

The U.S. arms maker is buying the network security provider as cybersecurity continues to grow as a market.

By Reuters

Business Funding

Crowdfunding Platform RocketHub Acquired for $15 Million

EFactor, a resource site for entrepreneurs, bought the New York City-based alternative finance platform.

By Catherine Clifford

Business News

Is Yahoo Buying Foursquare? Rumors Continue to Swirl.

The recurring rumors, floated again today by Techcrunch, could mark a bid by Yahoo to ramp up its mobile prowess.

By Geoff Weiss

Building a Business

Segway Is Now a Chinese Company

The electric two-wheeled transportation vehicle has been bought by Beijing-based competitor Ninebot.

By Catherine Clifford

Business News

PayPal, eBay to Stay Interdependent for Five Years After Split

The two firms agreed that eBay would not reduce the volume of transactions it channels through PayPal.

By Reuters

Building a Business

Marc Andreessen: It’s Shocking ‘How Little M&A There’s Been’ in Tech

There has never been a more dangerous time to be an unprotected public company, the prominent Silicon Valley investor said at an event this week.

By Leena Rao

Building a Business

Twitter’s Shares Jump on Takeover Rumors

At least one report says that the company has hired advisers to rebuff a takeover bid.

By Reuters

Business News

Yoox, Net-A-Porter Announce All-Share Merger to Forge High-Fashion Powerhouse

The two companies counted combined net revenues of $1.4 billion last year, and, moving forward, will complement one another's respective strengths.

By Geoff Weiss

Thought Leaders

3 Steps to Tame Merger Meltdown

Did you know that your employees' physical and emotional health could suffer?

By Susan Steinbrecher

Business News

Kraft and Heinz to Form North America’s No. 3 Food Company

The maker of Velveeta cheese will merge with ketchup maker H.J. Heinz Co, owned by 3G Capital and Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

By Reuters

Buying a Franchise

Macaroni Grill Sold for the Second Time in Two Years

Two years after buying the chain for $55 million, Ignite Restaurant Group is selling Macaroni Grill for $8 million.

By Kate Taylor

Online Presence

Here’s How One Tweet Led to Microsoft Buying Minecraft for $2.5 Billion

Social media can change the entire course of your company's future.

By Nina Zipkin

Building a Business

7 Steps to Prepare Your Company for an Acquisition

When an entrepreneur decides it's time to sell her company, it's hard to know where to begin. Here are a few do's and don'ts to get you started.

By Panos A. Panay

Online Presence

As Online Video Explodes, a Look at 5 of the Industry’s Biggest Trends (Infographic)

A whopping $1.4 billion worth of mergers and acquisitions took place in the space last year.

By Geoff Weiss

Business News

Staples Agrees to Buy Office Depot for $6.3 Billion, Creating an Office-Supply Behemoth

If approved, the deal would combine the No. 1 U.S. office supplier with its closest rival, creating a new company with expected annual revenue of $39 billion.

By Catherine Clifford

Thought Leaders

Tootsie Roll Appoints 83-Year-Old Widow as CEO; Sale Rumors Swirl

Ellen Gordon, 83, will succeed her 95-year-old husband, Melvin, who was the oldest CEO of any company listed on the New York Stock Exchange or the Nasdaq Stock Market.

By Geoff Weiss