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Fiat Chrysler is in talks with the Taiwanese company Foxconn to develop and manufacture battery electric vehicles

Sports betting giant DraftKings plans to merge with two other firms and go public

Sports betting giant DraftKings plans to go public and merge with two other firms. The Boston-based company said Monday that it will complete its merger with gambling tech firm SBTech and special purpose acquisition company Diamond Eagle Acquisition sometime in the first half of 2020

Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot plan to merge into the world’s fourth-largest automaker, a giant that could produce a wider variety of cleaner vehicles at a faster pace, including more powered by electricity

Fiat Chrysler and PSA Peugeot have signed a deal for a 50-50 merger, creating the world's fourth-largest automaker with annual sales of 8.7 million cars

Britain's competition watchdog has launched a formal merger inquiry into Google's purchase of cloud data analytics company Looker Data Sciences

A person briefed on a planned memorandum of understanding between Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and PSA Peugeot says that the carmakers will announce the deal on Wednesday

British-based Cineworld says it will buy Canada's Cineplex for about $1.7 billion

International Flavors and Fragrances is merging with DuPont's Nutrition and Biosciences unit in a $26.2 billion deal that would form a new company

T-Mobile CEO John Legere says that if his company's $26.5 billion deal to buy Sprint fails, it may have to raise prices to slow user growth and relieve stress on the T-Mobile network

A new takeover offer still isn't sweet enough for food delivery service Just Eat

Atlanta's SunTrust and North Carolina's BB&T have combined into a megabank with a new name, Truist, but the completion of their merger won't immediately change the name of the Atlanta Braves home field

A Sprint executive's messages revealed in court Monday may undercut one of T-Mobile's arguments supporting its $26.5 billion merger

T-Mobile is facing off against 14 state attorneys general in defense of its attempt to buy Sprint for $26.5 billion

Manchester City’s Abu Dhabi ownership has expanded its portfolio of worldwide soccer clubs to eight by buying a majority stake in Indian Super League team Mumbai City FC.City Football Group says it has acquired 65% of the Indian club

French luxury giant LVMH reaches deal to buy New York-based jewelry maker Tiffany & Co for $16.2 billion.

Charles Schwab buys rival TD Ameritrade in an approximately $26 billion all-stock deal, a blockbuster deal brought about by disruption in the online brokerage industry

French luxury giant LVMH reaches deal to buy New York-based jewelry maker Tiffany & Co for $16.2 billion.

Charles Schwab buys rival TD Ameritrade in an approximately $26 billion all-stock deal, a blockbuster deal accelerated by disruption in the online brokerage industry

Dutch energy company Eneco says it has agreed to a proposed 4.1 billion euro ($4.5 billion) takeover by Japanese corporations Mitsubishi and Chubu

GateHouse has closed its $1.1 billion takeover of Gannett, becoming the country’s largest newspaper company by far as the industry tries to deal with print’s decline

Federal Reserve, FDIC approve $66 billion merger between BB&T and SunTrust banks

HP board rejects $33.5B offer from Xerox, citing concerns about debt and trajectory

Shareholders of two of the largest U.S. newspaper companies approved a combination, paving the way for the $1.4 billion deal to go through