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Lyft wants to sell itself but nobody is interested in buying it

Lyft has always been a distant second to Uber in the ride-sharing market, and always will be, but considering how Uber...
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Verizon has acquired Yahoo’s core business for $4.8 billion

Marissa Mayer has laid off thousands of Yahoo employees over the last four years, all in an effort to turn things around...
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Why is Line listed on both an American and Japanese stock market?

Line hasn’t found much success here in the West, which is why it might seem odd that the company decided to...
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We might not see Xiaomi go public until 2025

With valuations of $68 billion and $46 billion, respectively, Uber and Xiaomi are the two most-valuable startups in the world at...
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Rovi has agreed to acquire TiVo for $1.1 billion

TiVo… that’s a name that hasn’t been relevant in my life for years, and I’m far from the only one. Being...
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General Electric had the opportunity to acquire Apple for $2 billion

When deciding not to acquire a company, there’s always the possibility that you’ll come to regret it in the future, such as...
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Microsoft might be willing to fund a Yahoo acquisition

Remember that time Yahoo turned down a $44.6 billion acquisition offer from Microsoft? Well, here we are eight years later and Microsoft has...
Avatar of Brian Molidor Brian Molidor
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Yahoo is killing off even more of its products

It seems like not a day goes by without more evidence of Yahoo’s imminent demise popping up, and I have no...
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Microsoft considered making an $8 billion acquisition bid for Slack

With more than 2.3 million daily active users, it’s not that hard to see why so many companies are interested in...
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Xiaomi is considering going public

Xiaomi is second only to Uber in terms of how much people are anticipating its IPO, and although CEO Lei Jun has...
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Yahoo may have finally accepted its fate

Everyone had high hopes for Yahoo when Marissa Mayer became the company’s CEO back in 2012, but that hope has long since given...
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Sharp has agreed to sell most of itself to Foxconn

Despite the Japanese government’s insistence that Sharp remain in the hands of Japanese owners, rather than being taken over by a foreign company,...
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Pandora might be looking for a company to sell itself to

Pandora may be the largest Internet radio service in the world, but that doesn’t mean all that much considering how it’s...
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GitHub is having something of a civil war at the moment

It looks like all is not well inside GitHub at the moment, as two factions within the company are fighting over which...
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Cisco is spending $1.4 billion to begin its Internet of Things expansion

Expanding into the emerging Internet of Things market shouldn’t be too hard for Cisco considering how it’s the largest manufacturer of networking equipment...
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Marissa Mayer has written a kill list for Yahoo’s employees

The fate of Yahoo’s employees is being determined by where they are on the new kill list that CEO Marissa Mayer...
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