Mergers and Acquisitions

Comcast and Time Warner Cable officially terminated their $45 billion merger Friday amid regulatory opposition.

Wilson Sporting Goods is stepping up to the plate to buy the Louisville Slugger brand, bringing together two iconic baseball brands.

Liberty Interactive Corporation announced Monday that it had entered an agreement to purchase e-commerce brand Zulily for $2.4 billion, in a cash and stock deal. The acquisition will be attributed to Liberty’s QVC Group, the shopping television channel.

Sergio Marchionne, chief executive of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, is keeping up his campaign to merge the automaker with General Motors.

Shares of the struggling cosmetics company Avon went wild on Thursday after receiving what turned out to be a fake takeover offer via an SEC filing from PTG Capital Partners which does not exist.   

Bookseller Barnes & Noble said Thursday it is ending its commercial agreement with Microsoft for its Nook e-book reader ahead of its planned Nook spinoff.

PayPal's split from long-time partner eBay Inc. makes Carl Icahn mighty happy.

Gannett will spin off its print business including USA Today into a separate company as it focuses on its TV and digital media properties, the company said Tuesday.

Combining Time Warner and Fox would result in one media and entertainment juggernaut, bringing together several TV networks, production companies and media properties.

Tribune Co. says it has approved a spinoff of its newspaper publishing business.

Merck & Co Inc is in talks to acquire Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc for more than $7 billion in a deal that could be announced as early as next week, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing people briefed on the matter.

Ann Inc reportedly hired JP Morgan to explore strategic alternatives, including a potential sales of the retailer.

Shares in drugmaker AstraZeneca have climbed more than 7 percent this week, fueled by speculation of renewed takeover interest from Pfizer, following an abortive $118 billion (71 billion pounds) takeover attempt in May.

Facebook Inc's $19 billion bid for fast-growing mobile-messaging startup WhatsApp sent shares of BlackBerry Ltd higher before the opening bell on Thursday as investors placed bets that the smartphone maker's own messaging platform has been undervalued.

The world's biggest chipmaker said Monday it will buy rival Altera in an all-cash deal valued at $54 per share as it seeks to expand its higher-margin chip unit.

Endo International PLC has agreed to buy Par Pharmaceutical Holdings Inc. from private-equity firm TPG for about $8 billion in cash and stock, a deal that will help boost its generics business.

E-commerce company eBay has sold its 28.4 percent stake in Craigslist back to the online classified advertising site, ending years of legal wrangling between the two companies.

Before he became a billionaire in e-commerce, Richard Liu was a failure.

Applied Materials has called off its $9.4 billion acquisition of Tokyo Electron Ltd. after hitting a regulatory roadblock.

Nokia says it is acquiring French telecom company Alcatel-Lucent through a public exchange offer in France and the United States.