Winn-Dixie Bought By Bi-Lo, Chains to Merge

Citing a desire for greater scale in their combined markets, supermarket chains Winn-Dixie and Bi-Lo are merging. Bi-Lo agreed today to purchase Winn-Dixie for $9.50 a share- about 75% higher than the stock's closing price Friday- in a ... continue

T-Mobile Being Gobbled Up By AT&T For $39 Billion

AT&T announced today that they will buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion. The purchase, if approved, will allow AT&T to overtake Verizon Wireless as the largest mobile network in the United States. The merger will ... continue

Comcast purchase of NBC a done deal

So the big gets bigger as the Comcast deal to buy NBC passes through the FCC and the Justice Department. In a 4 - 1 vote the FCC approved the deal but not without FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski ... continue

Buying Congressional favoritism to support Comcast/NBC merger

We all know that Comcast really, really, wants this purchase of NBC to go through. The question is though what are they willing to do in order to help along the process through the various regulatory hearings ... continue

Mint.com + Intuit = Bad Math?

Intuit, purveyors of what may be the world's most feature-restricted software (Quickbooks) is acquiring Mint.com. It's a move that's already prompted some to close their Mint accounts, and is sure to, if anything, erode confidence in the popular ... continue

Google acquires On2 Technologies

Google announced today that they picked up video compression developer On2 Technologies in a $106.5m stock-for-stock acquisition. With clients including Adobe, Skype, Sun Java and Move Networks, On2 claims that 2 billion of their codecs have already been ... continue

Intel goes shopping, drops $884m on Wind River Systems

In a corporate-speak heavy press release this morning, Intel announced a "definitive agreement" to acquire Wind River Systems. Intel indicated a price tag of $11.50 a share for a total of $884 million- a hefty 44% over Wind ... continue