Mergers and Acquisitions

Honeywell International Inc, a maker of aircraft parts and climate control systems, said it was scrapping its offer to buy United Technologies Corp due to the company's unwillingness to engage in negotiations.

Honeywell International, a maker of aircraft parts and climate control systems, said it was scrapping its offer to buy United Technologies due to the company's unwillingness to engage in negotiations.

The European Commission said on Monday it had cleared Dell's planned $67 billion acquisition of data storage company EMC Corp.

U.S. industrial conglomerate United Technologies Corp on Friday rejected a $90.7 billion offer by rival aerospace supplier Honeywell International Inc, saying that pursuing a merger would be "irresponsible" toward its shareholders.

Viacom Inc is considering selling a minority stake in its Paramount Pictures movie studio, Chief Executive Philippe Dauman said on Tuesday.

Time Inc, the publisher of Sports Illustrated, People and Time magazine, is considering a deal to buy the core business of Yahoo, citing people familiar with the matter.

Worldwide mergers and acquisitions deals have fallen 23 percent to $336 billion so far this year compared with last year, but cross-border activity by amount targeting U.S.-based companies reached a record high.

International Business Machines Corp said it would buy Truven Health Analytics, a provider of cloud-based healthcare data, for $2.6 billion, the company's fourth major health-related acquisition since launching the Watson Health unit in April last year.

International Business Machines said on Thursday it plans to acquire Truven Health Analytics, a provider of healthcare data and analytics, for $2.6 billion, marking its fourth major health data-related deal in the past year.

Private-equity firm Apollo Global Management announcing this morning that it will acquire ADT for $42 per share.

U.S. toymakers Mattel Inc and Hasbro Inc have held talks about a possible merger, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

China's state-owned ChemChina will make an agreed $43 billion bid for Swiss seeds and pesticides group Syngenta, marking the largest ever overseas acquisition by a Chinese firm

China's state-owned ChemChina is nearing a deal to take over Swiss seeds and pesticides group Syngenta for roughly 470 Swiss francs ($460.5) per share, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.

Drugmaker Abbott Laboratories said it would acquire Alere for $5.8 billion to boost its global diagnostics presence.

Battle of the Suits: Jos. A. Bank rejected a $1.5 billion takeover bid from Men's Wearhouse as the fight between the apparel companies marches on. 

Charter is nearing an agreement to secure financing as it pursues a bid for larger rival Time Warner Cable.

Private equity firm Cerberus is reportedly close to a deal with two BlackBerry co-founders to jointly pursue a bid for the smartphone maker. Qualcomm was also said to be in talks.

BlackBerry executives reportedly met with Facebook in California to gauge the social media giant’s possible interest in a bid for the smartphone maker.

Liberty Global agreed  to sell nearly all of Chellomedia, its international content division, to AMC Networks for about $1 billion.