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The Chinese government says Qualcomm Inc.'s plan for its $44 billion acquisition of NXP Semiconductors 'has difficulty' resolving concerns of anti-monopoly regulators

South Carolina's state-owned utility says it wants a say in whether its partner in building two failed nuclear plants can merge with a Virginia utility

The parent company of British Airways says it is interested in exploring a potential acquisition of the low-cost carrier Norwegian Air Shuttle

Japanese airbag maker Takata Corp. says acquisition by Key Safety Systems complete, president resigning

Takata Corp., maker of defective air bags, says acquisition by Key Safety Systems is complete and its president resigned

Debt heavy auto parts maker Federal-Mogul, owned by Carl Icahn's company, is being sold in a deal worth about $5.4 billion

Walmart may be looking to dive deeply into the rapidly evolving health care market by acquiring the insurer Humana, according to The Wall Street Journal

U.S. exchange operator CME is taking over London-based peer Nex in a deal that values the British company at 3.9 billion pounds ($5.4 billion)

Shares in Irish drugmaker Shire Plc are up sharply after Japanese rival Takeda said it is considering making a takeover offer for the company

H. Wayne Huizenga, a college dropout who started with one trash truck and built a business empire that included Blockbuster Entertainment, AutoNation and three professional sports franchises, has died at 80

Day after announcing job cuts, magazine publisher Meredith Corp. say it plans a $21 million remodel of its corporate headquarters in Iowa to accommodate 41 jobs it's transferring from New York

US, AT&T fire opening salvos as the Justice Department seeks to block AT&T's proposed takeover of Time Warner

EU clears Bayer takeover of Monsanto in massive agro-business deal; demands $7.4 billion in business sales, remedies

Britain's information commissioner plans to apply for a warrant to access the servers of Cambridge Analytica, which allegedly used data mined from Facebook to help Donald Trump win the 2016 presidential election

Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch consumer goods multinational whose vast stable of brands includes Dove, Knorr and Ben & Jerry's, says it is basing its headquarters in the Netherlands, ending its structure of having head offices in both Rotterdam and London

Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch consumer goods multinational whose vast stable of brands includes Dove, Knorr and Ben & Jerry's, says it is basing its headquarters in the Netherlands, ending its structure of having head offices in both Rotterdam and London

Behind the Broadcom deal block: Rising global telecom tensions

President Donald Trump has blocked Singapore-based chipmaker Broadcom from pursuing a hostile takeover of U.S. rival Qualcomm

Trump decision to scuttle a hostile takeover by Singapore's Broadcom of the U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm caught some on Wall Street off guard

Trump block's Broadcom's $117 billion bid for rival U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm to protect national security