acquisitions

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Companies with excess cash can do things like hoard it, dole much of it out through shareholder returns, make acquisitions or invest in the business through areas like research and development.

From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026

Bartlett said utility acquisitions are fairly straightforward and that the combination of the two companies could benefit customers, but NextEra must prove it.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

The path through the state regulators will be “challenging,” said Alex Torgerson, partner in mergers and acquisitions at West Monroe, while federal regulators will be “slightly below challenging.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

Liani also highlighted that ServiceNow’s recent acquisitions of cybersecurity companies Armis and Veza expand the company’s addressable market and strengthen its AI Control Tower offering.

From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026

Neal moved to Ascend Communications, which built little boxes to terminate Internet signals and was acquired by Lucent Technologies in 1999 for $24 billion, one of the largest acquisitions in history.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel