Social media giant Twitter has acquired Quill that experts suggest might let Twitter DMs better compete with other messaging apps. As per GSM Arena, this new acquisition might result in Twitter offering more robust messaging features. For the unversed, Quill is a messaging app for collaboration and communication with teams, one that competed with other … Read more
Billionaire Anil Agarwal-led Ltd is evaluating a demerger of its aluminium, iron & steel and oil & gas businesses, which will be run as standalone listed entities with separate leadership in what it called a value-unlocking exercise. On Wednesday, Vedanta announced the constitution of a committee of directors to evaluate and recommend such options and … Read more
IPCA already owns 9.84% of Lyka. Besides, IPCA’s promoters separately held 1.18% in Lyka. It has now bought additional 16.73% from Lyka’s shareholders taking it’s total stake to 26.57% (excluding the above 1.18%). Key points to note – In line with the regulations, the transaction has kicked an open offer of additional 26% at the … Read more
Edtech platform Unacademy on Tuesday said that it has acquired online tuition platform Swiflearn for an undisclosed amount, The acquisition is in-line with Unacademy’s plans to strengthen its position in the kindergarten to grade 12 (K-12) category, as it heats up the competition against rivals Vedantu and BYJU’s. Three-year old Swiflearn provides live face-to-face online … Read more
Dr Lal Pathlabs (LPL) has acquired 100% stake in Suburban Diagnostics (SD) Key points to note SD is a Sequoia supported entity, who had put in Rs 40 crore into the Company in 2012. Sequoia had been drawing up an exit plan – explored IPO route previously and recently the more recently the Company was … Read more
In June 2018, Whirlpool had acquired 49% strategic interest in Elica PB India (Elica) to expand the cooking business. Whirlpool has now acquired additional 38% stake in Elica for an estimated $57 mn – bringing the total stake to 87% and consequently Elica becoming a subsidiary of Whirlpool. Elica PB India, is the Indian arm … Read more
AOL and Yahoo are being sold again, this time to a private equity firm. Verizon will sell Verizon Media, which consists of the pioneering tech platforms, to Apollo Global Management in a $5 billion deal. Verizon said Monday that it will keep a 10 per cent stake in the new company, which will be called … Read more
The company has the money to spend, ending its 2020 fiscal year with $136 billion cash on hand after the pandemic forced a shift to remote work and led to a boom in Microsoft’s cloud and productivity software. Experts say that with its surging market cap of near $2 trillion – and its leading rivals … Read more
Microsoft is said to be in exclusive talks to acquire online group chat platform Discord for $10 billion or more, in a deal that could be announced as soon as April. The company has yet to confirm a pending deal, but recent comments from executives help shed light on why exactly Microsoft might want to … Read more