Mergers and Acquisitions

Microsoft agreed to buy LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in cash, the companies said in a statement on Monday.

Buyer and Monsanto are taking takeover talks private as officials look to negotiate the old-fashioned way.

Buyer and Monsanto are taking takeover talks private as officials look to negotiate the old-fashioned way.

Buyer and Monsanto are taking takeover talks private as officials look to negotiate the old-fashioned way.

Verizon Communications on Monday planned to submit a second-round bid of around $3 billion for Yahoo's core internet business, a person familiar with the matter said.

Verizon Communications on Monday planned to submit a second-round bid of around $3 billion for Yahoo's core internet business, a person familiar with the matter said.

Great Plains Energy, the parent of regulated utility Kansas City Power & Light, said it would buy rival Westar Energy Inc for $8.6 billion in cash and stock.

Great Plains Energy, the parent of regulated utility Kansas City Power & Light, said it would buy rival Westar Energy Inc for $8.6 billion in cash and stock.

Verizon Communications is working on its bid for Yahoo's core assets with an investment bank which was, as recently as last year, one of the U.S. internet company's top advisers.

Valeant Pharmaceuticals International received a joint takeover offer this spring that the Canadian drugmaker rejected.

Bayer's $62B offer for Monsanto is about alot more than massive M&A.

Anthem Inc Chief Executive Officer Joseph Swedish said on Tuesday the health insurer was pushing for approval from antitrust regulators reviewing its acquisition of Cigna Corp and expects to hear a decision in July.

German pharmaceutical giant Bayer AG and Monsanto are close to agreeing to a deal that will create the world's largest seed company, the FOX Business Network has learned.

Tribune Publishing on Monday rejected a sweetened takeover offer from Gannett, insisting its turnaround plan is better than Gannett's bid, and said a billionaire entrepreneur would take a $70 million stake in the company.

After weeks of wrangling the two are near a deal to create a global seed giant.

Quarrels have broken out behind the scenes and that could spell trouble for the landmark healthcare deal, according to the WSJ.

A top investor in German chemicals company Bayer has said on Friday he was "furious" at the company's refusal to engage with him over its recent bid for U.S. rival Monsanto.