After giving remedies to aid rival Marvell Technology, U.S. chipmaker Broadcom received EU antitrust permission on Wednesday for its $61 billion proposed takeover of cloud computing company VMware. The largest-ever deal for Broadcom will help the chip manufacturer expand into corporate software. The European Commission stated, confirming a Reuters report from last month, that Broadcom…
Walt Disney is looking into options to sell or find a joint venture partner for its India digital and TV company, according to reports quoting information from sources. No prospective partner or buyer has been approached thus far, and it is still unclear how the process would proceed, the individual added. The conversations are in…
A $27 billion energy agreement between Iraq and the French oil giant TotalEnergies was finally signed on Monday. The pact intends to expand oil output and improve the nation’s ability to create energy through four oil, gas, and renewable energy projects. The agreement, which was first signed in 2021 but delayed due to disagreements between…
For the first time ever, an online travel agency will take part in Prime Day on Tuesday thanks to a partnership between Amazon.com Inc. and the travel service Priceline. Although retail spending has decreased, Americans have continued to spend on experiences like travel. As travel providers scramble to fill hotel rooms, Amazon is expanding its…
As China’s $984 million sentence for Ant Group was perceived as the end of a regulatory crackdown on the country’s technology sector, shares of Alibaba Group and Tencent increased in Hong Kong on Monday. An up to $6 billion share repurchase was announced by Ant, an Alibaba affiliate created by Jack Ma on Friday in…
In a setback to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intentions for Indian chip manufacturing, Taiwan’s Foxconn announced on Monday that it had left a $19.5 billion joint venture in the semiconductor industry with Indian metals-to-oil behemoth Vedanta. The largest manufacturer of contract electronics in the world, Foxconn, and Vedanta agreed to establish semiconductor and display manufacturing…
The second quarter’s gas trading results are anticipated to be “significantly lower” quarter over quarter, but in line with the second quarters of the previous two years, according to Shell, the largest trader of liquefied natural gas in the world. Because of maintenance in a major supplier, Norway, where Shell unexpectedly extended an outage at…
After a protracted regulatory reform of the company, Ant Group on Saturday unexpectedly announced a share purchase that values the fintech behemoth at $78.54 billion, significantly less than the $315 billion predicted in an abandoned IPO in 2020. The announcement came the day after Ant was hit with a $984 million punishment, which should put…
In a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter’s attorney Alex Spiro threatened to sue Meta Platforms over its new Threads platform. By utilising the billions of Instagram users, Meta, which began Threads on Wednesday and has received more than 30 million sign-ups, hopes to compete with Elon Musk’s Twitter. Spiro charged Meta in his…
Despite a supply reduction, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said on Friday that its operating profit for the second quarter was anticipated to fall by 96%. This news was broadly in line with expectations. In a brief preliminary earnings announcement, the largest memory chip and smartphone manufacturer in the world estimated that its operational profit decreased…
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