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Big Beer's Big Spend On The Big Game Won't Likely Score Big MoneyMore and ore football fans will once again trade beer for spirits, wine and even hard seltzer during this year's Super Bowl
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GM unveils Chevy Silverado HD as Detroit's Big 3 battle for big profits in big pickupsGM is adding a thousand jobs to its plant in Flint to help with production of the new Silverado. Many of those jobs will be filled by GM employees working at some of the six plants the company is idling in a North America.
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New Industry Report Exposes British VC Industry As An “Old Boys' Club”Nine months after Forbes revealed details of a cross-industry initiative to collect more data on diversity in venture capital across the U.K., today the first results make for shocking reading.
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Apple’s Austrian roadkill looks like an M&A targetChipmaker AMS is being squeezed by the U.S. tech giant, its biggest customer. A heavy debt pile and rising investment needs have scuppered its dividend. With shares down 70 pct in six months, investors’ best hope may be a sale to a fellow Apple supplier, like STM.
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Software M&A makes LBO shops click on club dealsA group led by Hellman & Friedman is paying more than 30 times EBITDA for its $11 bln buyout of Ultimate Software. Private equity is targeting the tech cloud. But such lofty valuations require big equity checks few can or want to write. That means teaming up, despite the risks.
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Derailed train M&A spells poor EU antitrust revampCompetition tsar Margrethe Vestager blocked Siemens and Alstom’s rail merger in defiance of Franco-German pressure. Paris and Berlin are agitating for rule changes and may back a replacement who will be more willing to create regional champions. That would be a mistake.
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Google has a 'very high bar' for M&A targets, CEO Sundar Pichai saysGoogle had a shot at open source software companies GitHub and Red Hat last year.
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