The Latest Breaking News from Mergers

Employers expect health care benefit costs to keep rising—and they're going to have to make some tough choices

Rising prescription prices, hospital mergers, and nurse shortages are contributing to the climb.

Fortune · Sep 12, 2024

The Benefits of Outsourcing Data Room Services from a Professional Provider

Conviction, divorces, multimillion-dollar damages, hiding children in bathtubs because of an upcoming ballistic missile. These are not episodes from Hollywood movies but real stories highlighting the importance of choosing reliable software for business leaders and governors.When dealing with sensitive transactions like mergers and acquisitions, it's crucial to consider a virtual…

inkl · Sep 2, 2024

Dealmakers Ponder What's Next After Tough Biden Antitrust Years

President Joe Biden's skeptical approach to corporate mergers has been a hallmark of his administration's business policy -- a stance generally expected to ease if Donald Trump returns to the White House.

International Business Times · Aug 25, 2024

Scalpel taken to hospital 'back office bureaucracy'

A hospital overhaul will not force mergers but "back office bureaucracy" will be targeted by a new agency after a review found the system unfit for purpose.

AAP · Aug 8, 2024

Food giants are strangling Britain’s farmers and consumers. What’s the solution? Break them up

The UK has a huge problem with monopolies – yet taking conglomerates apart is not as hard as you might think, says Nicholas Shaxson, co-founder of the Balanced Economy Project

The Guardian - UK · Jul 22, 2024

How to improve our global food system

Here's why "it's damaging our health, our communities and the planet"

Salon · Jul 17, 2024

The global food system is owned by an ever smaller number of companies – it’s damaging our health, our communities and the planet

Across the world, over 800 million people spend their days hungry. More than 2 billion have limited access to food. Yet today’s global food system produces enough to feed every person on the planet.

The Conversation · Jul 17, 2024

Supermassive black holes slowing growth

Black holes grew much faster billions of years ago, when the universe was younger

Salon · Jul 17, 2024

Venture firms need to emulate private equity, says Upfront Ventures partner Mark Suster

With IPOs and mergers still on hold, VCs may look to secondaries as their exit, Suster predicted at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference.

Fortune · Jul 17, 2024

Supermassive black holes have masses of more than a million suns – but their growth has slowed as the universe has aged

Black holes are remarkable astronomical objects with gravity so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape them. The most gigantic ones, known as “supermassive” black holes, can weigh millions to billions times the mass of the Sun.

The Conversation · Jul 12, 2024