Mergers and Acquisitions

Bidding war could lead to consolidation in French mobile telecommunications

SFR is the subject of a merger proposal from rival operator Bouygues Telecom and a competing bid from ISP and cable TV operator NumA(c)ricable

IBM workers in China strike to protest transfer to Lenovo

The server factory has stopped production because of the protest

When Tech Titans Join Forces: The Verdict on 6 Big Mergers

CloudFlare acquires StopTheHacker malware scanning service

CloudFlare will continue to run StopTheHacker as normal while working on a longer-term integration

Investor Icahn blasts eBay board, calls for company to spin off PayPal

IBM buys NoSQL cloud provider Cloudant

IBM's Cloudant purchase will bring the CouchDB NoSQL database into IBM's SoftLayer global cloud

Google acquires Spider.io to fight ad fraud

Spider.io helps advertisers spot billions of fake ad views generated by networks of hijacked devices

Wall Street Beat: After Facebook buy of WhatsApp, tech M&A set for strong year

Tech mergers and acquisition activity soared in the second half of 2013, PricewaterhouseCoopers says

HP eyeing acquisitions – and divestitures – Whitman says

The company is looking to do deals in security, big data, cloud and mobility

WhatsApp deal gives Facebook a path to crowded China market

Facebook has been blocked in China, but WhatsApp can still be downloaded