#conglomerates #naspers #tech_companies #year:2010 #DST_Global #mail.ru #boss_peeps #Yuri_Milner #acquisitions #russian #pub

"TD Ameritrade reached a deal to acquire rival stock brokerage firm Scottrade for a mix of cash and stock that the companies said was worth $4 billion. The agreement involves multiple transactions in which TD Ameritrade will first acquire Scottrade Bank for $1.3 billion, then acquire Scottrade Financial Services for $2.7 billion. Collectively, the companies handled an average of 600,000 client trades per day, $944 billion in client assets and 10 million funded client accounts in the 12 months ended Sept. 30....To squeeze out excess costs, they'll rack up $550 million in "restructuring related charges," including costs associated with employee severance, according to the presentation. The company said it had identified the opportunity for $450 million in annual "expense synergies," which often includes cost cuts and combined purchasing power in corporate mergers, including 25% that can be achieved within the first year of the deal. The rest would occur in the second year. TD Ameritrade said it expects an additional $300 million in "longer-term opportunities," without offering specifics. The companies said they expect the deal to close by the end of September 2017." #financial_firms #finance_industry #stock_market #stock_brokers #acquisitions #pub

Confused by the different names and shit Atari went with. #acquisitions #need_to_grok #video_games #tech_companies #year:2008 #pub

So Hasbro Interactive isn't Atari? #acquisitions #need_to_grok #video_games #tech_companies #year:2000 #pub

"Two Japanese institutions will become one in September; new holding company to rank only behind Sammy Sega in size." -- Is Bandai a toy company more than a gaming company? Weird combo then, no? #$tag_more #acquisitions #need_to_grok #video_games #tech_companies #billion_dollar_deals #mergers #pub

Not available on web anymore -- Manwin Isnt Buying RedTube By MikeSouth July 31st, 2013 Today Xbiz broke a story that Manwin is buying Redtube, a very large tubesite. But the story isn’t entirely correct, allow me to explain. Sent From an insider last Saturday: “You may get a whiff of a story about Manwin purchasing a large tube site, if you do, sit on it. They will give it to XBiz or maybe AVN, when it does break I will give you a scoop about it.” Then later today: “I see you resisted the urge to run with that. I’m sure that wasn’t easy so here is what I promised you. Manwin isn’t really purchasing Redtube, it is a merger. Look for the President of Redtube to have a very high profile role in the new organization. You are spot on in your deduction that Manwin is trying to control a runaway financial situation. Manwin doesn’t have the available capital to buy Redtube.” Now THAT makes sense to me. Manwin has sent out an internal memo that production is no longer a priority, tubesites and advertising ARE now the top priority. This backs up Manwins moves to try to thwart DMCA take down requests and it explains the many layoffs. And finally another email: “I see you coaxed Fabian out of his little hole, nice work South, you can be sure he didn’t come out just to point out how wrong you are, you are on to something, keep it up brother!” #web_empires #mergers #acquisitions #adult_industry #porn #pub

Time Warner, which was a result of 1989 merger of Time and Warner, bought remaining 82% of Turner for $7.5B in stocks. So Turner was worth like $9B. Boss. #acquisitions #media_companies #billion_dollar_deals #year:1993 #pub

#Time_Warner #acquisitions #billion_dollar_deals #year:1980s #pub

#news #IAC #money #boss_peeps #acquisitions #stocks #john_malone #pub

Trip Advisor is huge now. Close to 20% sold for only $300M back then. I think that is worth 10x now. Or 12-13x #liberty_media #money #acquisitions #stocks #year:2012 #john_malone #IAC #boss_peeps #barry_diller #pub

Damn, Fandango Group making more moves. #acquisitions #comcast #subsidiaries #movies #big_business #news #year:2017 #fandango #pub

"Fandango reached 40.3 million people in the U.S. in January, according to comScore data, while Flixster and Rotten Tomatoes together had 19.4 million visitors. Combined, the three assets would be a close No. 2 online to Amazon.com Inc.’s AMZN, IMDb, which had 73.8 million unique visitors last month. Flixster and Fandango together have more than 100 million mobile app downloads, according to the companies." _With MovieTickets.com and MovieClips helping a tiny bit, they should come even closer._ #acquisitions #comcast #subsidiaries #movies #big_business #news #year:2016 #fandango #Time_Warner #rotten_tomatoes #pub

"Fandango’s ticketing network spans more than 33,000 screens worldwide, while MovieTickets.com has pacts representing over 29,000. There’s significant overlap between the two — for example, both companies sell tickets AMC and Regal theaters — and the deal will increase Fandango’s global screen count by around 20%, to 40,000" -- "Internationally, Fandango in 2015 acquired Brazil’s biggest online movie-ticketing provider, Ingresso.com, and last December acquired Peru-based Cinepapaya (rebranded as Fandango Latin America)." #acquisitions #comcast #subsidiaries #movies #big_business #news #butting_heads #pub

#walmart #Flipkart #acquisitions #amazon #ecommerce #billion_dollar_deals #unicorns #news #pub

#walmart #Flipkart #acquisitions #amazon #ecommerce #billion_dollar_deals #unicorns #news #pub

#comcast #Fox #media_companies #media #mergers #acquisitions #billion_dollar_deals #news #pub

#comcast #Fox #media_companies #media #mergers #acquisitions #billion_dollar_deals #news #pub