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How Walmart turned its $3.3 billion acquisition of Jet.com into its greatest weapon against Amazon
Jet is now Walmart's key to that customer, and everything about Jet is being designed and implement…
Dennis Green
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Quibi is reportedly exploring strategic options including a possible sale
A possible sale is one of a few strategic options The Wall Street Journal reports Quibi is consider…
Ashley Rodriguez
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The general in charge of America's nukes says North Korea tests weapons faster than the US does
"If you've been in the acquisition business at all over the last 20 years, you realize we already h…
Alex Lockie
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Mark Zuckerberg just sold out a stadium
The Meta CEO was a guest on a sold-out live show of the "Acquired" podcast at Chase Center in San F…
Sarah Jackson
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Know the cost of acquiring customers. Don’t overspend and kill your startup
Failure to get product/market fit right is likely the number 1 reason for a startup’s failure. Howe…
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We visited a ModCloth store to see why Walmart reportedly plans to sell the company just 2 years after acquiring it
Though ModCloth originally started in 2002 as a passion project of founder Susan Gregg Koger while …
Bethany Biron
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'Hard Brexit' could seriously damage business at Arm, the UK's biggest tech company
Segar's warnings come on top of concerns that Britain lost its biggest tech company to Japan at the…
Hannah Roberts,James Cook
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Elon Musk is 'one of the great entrepreneurs' of the last 100 years, says Morgan Stanley's CEO
Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman cited Musk's Tesla, SpaceX and the Boring Company, adding that Twit…
Brian Evans
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AT&T climbs after releasing a 3-year plan to meet activist firm Elliott Management's goals
"We commend AT&T for the positive steps announced today, which will create substantial and endu…
Ben Winck
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Here's how the US military spends its billions
In terms of investments, the US has dedicated a substantial chunk of funding into aircraft and rela…
Skye Gould,Jeremy Bender
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Bill Ackman's SPAC falls after confirming talks to acquire 10% of Universal Music in long-awaited deal
Pershing Square Tontine Holdings fell as much as 11.6% Friday after the SPAC confirmed it is in tal…
Emily Graffeo
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Steve Jobs' Biographer Walter Isaacson: 'The Greatest Innovation In The World Today Is Coming From Google'
With all due respect to Isaacson, one thing to note about Google's innovation: It's mostly marketin…
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Bill Gates reportedly talked Microsoft out of bidding $8 billion for Slack
For its part, Slack is reportedly after a new $150 million round of funding that would value the st…
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Microsoft buys itself an ex-executive's company for Christmas
Talko's tech lets users tag, bookmark, save, and search through phone conversations, letting worker…
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[CHART] E-Commerce Led VC-Backed Tech Exits Last Year
Google, Wal-Mart, Amazon and other corporate giants all acquired companies in recent years that did…
Cooper Smith
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Warren Buffett bought Microsoft stock after meeting Bill Gates and made a $37 billion acquisition thanks to a chance encounter. Here are his 10 best quotes from an interview in a new book.
"I regard Berkshire Hathaway sort of like a painter regards a painting, the difference being the ca…
Theron Mohamed
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The CEO of Ayr told us how a strategy the cannabis company shares with Starbucks helped its pot shops massively outsell rivals
After it raised capital for the SPAC, the company acquired five cash-flow positive cannabis compani…
Jeremy Berke
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Bob Dylan sells his entire 600-track songwriting catalog to Universal Music for an estimated $300 million. It may be the biggest-ever acquisition of a single act's publishing rights.
The deal sees Bob Dylan sell all rights to songs in his catalog - including his songwriter income a…