According to a recent Wall Street Journal article: Encana Corp. has agreed to acquire Athlon Energy, a Texas based, shale-oil producer to the tune of $5.93 billion USD. Encana is a Canada based firm that will help their position within the state of Texas with this purchase. While mainly operating within the natural gas sector, […]
John Jellinek
Dollar Store Struggle
The $8.9 billion offer by Dollar General to take over Family Dollar was rejected late August foreshadowing a long ordeal ahead. The latter mentioned dollar store company has concerns over the sale due to possible anti-trust issues. With a complete sale of ownership to Dollar General, the transaction would come into serious scrutiny by regulators. […]
Hewlett-Packard May Be Getting Back Into the Acquisition Market
Hewlett-Packard, an American multinational information technology company, has not completed any business acquisitions since December of 2011 when the company bought Hiflex, a German cloud printing company. However, Meg Whitman, who became the CEO of Hewlett-Packard in October of 2011, is saying that the company could be looking into some business acquisitions in the very […]
Facebook Buys WhatsApp
Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition of mobile messaging service WhatsApp is the company’s largest acquisition and translates to approximately 11 percent of Facebook’s market value. The deal is larger than any acquisition completed by Google, Microsoft or Apple, with Google’s biggest deal being a $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility and Microsoft’s biggest deal with Skype […]
$3.2 Billion Gets Google Into the World of Home Automation
Google’s latest acquisition of Nest, a company that creates home automation technology, indicates that the company is starting to agree with the “Apple vision,” which believes technology companies should create hardware and software solutions in addition to an online platform. Google has wanted to get into the market of “connected home”-type systems for a while, […]
Consumer Electronics Show Highlights
2013 was a big year for electronics and it seems like 2014 will only continue to impress. According to an article on The Economic Times website, here are some highlights from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week. Curved televisions and smartphones. I had previously wrote a blog post about Samsung’s new design of […]
Facebook Acquisition of Instagram
I came across a recent article on Motley Fool that talks about Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram and how it was a positive step in the right direction for the major social player. Many people criticized the acquisition by Facebook because Instagram at the time had no revenue driver, just a rapidly growing user base. Looking at […]
Elon Musk’s New Idea
Elon Musk seems to always be thinking about the future. He is currently innovating transportation with his rapidly growing car company Tesla, but he continues to look past his current endeavors to bigger and better things. These things include a high speed railway system that would redefine how we travel across land in the United […]
Samsung Introduces Curved Smartphone
Samsung continues to differentiate from Apple in an effort to win over market share. Its latest development is the world’s first curved smartphone. According to an article in Bloomberg, the device will be 5.7 inches and is called the Galaxy Round. This is the first step in what will be a series of steps for […]
Microsoft’s Business Acquisitions Over The Years
I found a great article on CNET that talks about Microsoft’s recent acquisition of Nokia’s phone unit as well as the companies acquisitions over the years. Just this month, Microsoft spent $7.2 billion in an effort to reshape and make more of a dent in the smartphone market with Nokia’s devices and services unit. Over the […]