Category archives: Acquisitions

The deal supposedly beat out Walmart’s purchase of Jet.com

Buyers look for stability and high potential for ROI. Here’s how to position your company as a safe bet.

While acquisition should never be a founding goal, it sometimes becomes an option for strategic startups.

In this age of looming tech giants and super brands, your young-gun startup may seem an appealing morsel. Here’s how to resist the giants and still keep your investors happy.

Alaska Air completed its $2.6 billion acquisition of Virgin America to become the fifth-largest U.S. carrier.

Thanks to its Reddit-like system for surfacing news, Product Hunt has become one of the most important ways for tech startups to get noticed in Silicon Valley.

The purchase will help the French company to pursue affluent consumers by adding WhiteWave’s popular health food offerings such as Silk almond milk, Earthbound Farm Organic salad and Horizon organic milk to its product range.

The snub underscores the challenges Mondelez Chief Executive Irene Rosenfeld faces in wooing Hershey’s controlling shareholder, the Hershey Trust, a $12 billion charity created by the eponymous company’s founder a century ago.

Build a great business first. The rest will follow.

The unsolicited proposal, which includes debt, would be the largest foreign takeover by a German company if accepted.