Tinder Founders Take Match to Court on Stock Options
Filing suit Tuesday against Match Group, 10 people who were on the ground floor of Tinder in 2012 say the dating app giant schemed to cheat them out of their stock options.
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Rite Aid, Albertsons Call Off Merger Deal Ahead of Vote
Rite Aid and the grocer Albertsons called off an agreement to become a single company with the deal facing shaky prospects in a shareholder vote.
Read moreTribune Ends $3.9B Takeover, Sues Sinclair
Returning the ring and making curtains of the dress, Tribune Media filed suit Thursday against Sinclair Broadcast Group over a $3.9 billion buyout offer that had alarmed regulators and legal experts.
Read moreSinclair, Tribune Approach Deadline on Contested Merger
Hours away from the midnight deadline it faces to walk away from the proposed $3.9 billion deal with Sinclair Broadcast Group, experts call it possible Wednesday for Tribune Media to seek another buyer.
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Directors are selling Cotiviti Holdings too cheaply through an unfair process to Verscend Technologies, for $44.75 per share or $4.9 billion, shareholders of the tech company say in a federal class action.
Read moreComcast Backs Out of $65B Bid to Buy Fox
Conceding to Disney, media giant Comcast said Thursday it will stop pursuing assets from 21st Century Fox to focus on battling Fox owner Rupert Murdoch in a bidding war for control of European group Sky, another media company in which Murdoch has ownership stakes.
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Directors are selling Envision Healthcare Corp. too cheaply through an unfair process to KKR entities, for $9.9 billion or $46 a share, shareholders say in a federal class action.
Read moreFCC Chair Wants ALJ to Review Sinclair-Tribune Merger
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai threw cold water on a highly anticipated $3.9 billion merger between Sinclair Broadcast Group and Tribune Media Monday, saying he had concerns about Sinclair’s divestment if the deal is approved.
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Shareholders claim directors of Foundation Medicine filed a false and misleading registration statement about its proposed sale to Roche Pharmaceuticals, for $137 a share or $2.4 billion, in a federal class action.
Read moreFeds Appeal Merger Go-Ahead for AT&T, Time Warner
The government’s challenge to the blockbuster $85.4 billion AT&T-Time Warner merger got fresh oxygen Thursday as the Justice Department said it will appeal a federal judge’s approval of the merger.
Read moreNew England Couple Accused of Insider Trading
The Securities and Exchange Commission claims the former head of a New Jersey payment processing firm gave his girlfriend $1 million to buy company stock ahead of a merger announcement, netting the pair more than $250,000 in profits.
Read moreFox-Disney Merger
A Twenty-First Century Fox shareholder brought a federal class action Tuesday to block the company’s $71.3 billion merger with Disney, saying the deal “omits or misrepresents material information.”
Read moreBoeing Merger
Directors are selling the parts and services firm KLX Inc. too cheaply through an unfair process to Boeing, for $63 a share or $3.25 billion, shareholders say in a federal class action.
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Directors are selling ILG Inc. too cheaply through an unfair process to Marriott Vacations Worldwide, for $4.7 billion, shareholders say in a federal class action.
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Columbia Pipeline Group shareholders claim in court that directors forced a sale to TransCanada through an unfair, self-interested process, for $25.50 a share or $13 billion.
Read moreWeinstein Spinoff
Marvin Peart and Marro Media Co. claim Lantern Entertainment owes them $110 million for brokering the sale of The Weinstein Co. to Lantern, in L.A. Superior Court.
Read moreBoeing and Embraer Attempt a Joint Venture
Boeing and the Brazilian jet maker Embraer will attempt to form a joint venture that would push the U.S. aerospace giant more aggressively into the regional aircraft market.
Read moreJapan’s Uzabase to Acquire Online News Platform Quartz
Japanese media startup Uzabase is acquiring Quartz, a New York-based online business news platform, from Atlantic Media.
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In a federal class action, shareholders say directors are selling Abaxis (medical devices) too cheaply through an unfair process to Zoetis, for $83 a share or $2 billion.
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