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Building a Business

What Slow Exits Mean to Startup Investors

Since the end of the Internet 1.0 boom in 2001, the time to exit for the average venture-capital-backed company has more than doubled.

By Scott Shane

Business News

Pfizer to Buy Botox Maker Allergan in Massive $160 Billion Deal

By Reuters

Business News

Marriott to Buy Starwood to Create World’s Largest Hotel Chain

By Reuters

Building a Business

Expedia to Buy Airbnb Competitor HomeAway in $3.9 Billion Deal

By Reuters

Building a Business

Activision Blizzard to Buy ‘Candy Crush’ Maker for $5.9 Billion

Activision's CEO said buying King Digital will help the company expand into new demographics.

By Reuters

Business News

The World’s Two Largest Brewers Have Agreed to Become One

SABMiller accepted an offer worth more than $100 billion from Anheuser-Busch InBev

By Reuters

Business News

Dell Buys Storage Company EMC in Biggest Tech Deal Ever

The $67 billion deal will help Dell diversify away from the PC market.

By Reuters

Business Accounting

The High Costs of Your Exit Strategy

Whether it's a divorce or an M&A transaction, divesting can have lasting effects

By Steph Wagner

Business News

Why Did Airbnb Just Buy a Russian Design Firm?

Both companies are excited about the partnership, but neither is revealing details of their plans.

By Christopher Klimovski

Business News

A Merger May Be Brewing Between Two of the World’s Largest Beer Companies

Anheuser-Busch InBev is courting SABMiller.

By Reuters

Business News

Net-A-Porter’s Founder and Executive Chairman Abruptly Resigns

The move comes just as the online fashion group completes its merger with Yoox.

By Reuters

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

The digital payments company bought mobile commerce startup Modest.

By Leena Rao

Online Presence

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

Maker CEO Ynon Kreiz and top executives are rumored to be leaving Disney by year's end, as the company failed to meet certain growth goals.

By Geoff Weiss

Business News

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

The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter.

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