🔥⏲️ Fudge Sunday "A.I. For You" A look at the proliferation of M.L. and A.I. across the Enterprise knowledge worker stack

#aieverything #enterprisesoftware #mergersandacquisitions #mergers #acquisitions #aistrategy #productengineering #aiproducts #airproducts #aiops #mlops #artificialintelligence #ai #aiandbusiness #dataengineering #realtimeanalytics #realtimedata #dataintegration #platformengineering #watsonx #devx #developerexperience #newsletter #newsletters

https://fudge.org/archive/ai-for-you/

“There’s a large body of research showing that health care consolidation leads to increases in prices without clear evidence it improves quality,” said Zachary Levinson...“There’s some concern that, for example, when a larger health system buys up a smaller independent hospital in a different region, that hospital will become less attentive to the specific needs of the community it serves...”

https://stateline.org/2023/09/07/some-states-back-hospital-mergers-despite-record-of-service-cuts-price-hikes/

#healthcare #hospitals #mergers #businessofmedicine #healtheconomics

In #thegodfatherpartii set in the late 1950s #hymanroth tells #michaelcorleone “We’re bigger than #ussteel “ That’s no longer the impressive claim “it was once.” #business #steel #mergers #stocks #stockmarket https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/13/us-steel-to-explore-strategic-alternatives-for-the-company.html?__source=iosappshare%7Corg.joinmastodon.app.ShareActionExtension

How Have #Corporate #Mergers Affected Your Life, Your #Business, Your Community?
https://ilsr.org/share-your-story-how-have-corporate-mergers-affected-your-life-your-business-your-community/

@Syulang

Most #rebranding efforts I’ve encountered are an exercise in corporate officer egos. Enormous expense generators yielding customer confusion and questionable benefits.

I’d suggest rebranding frequently makes sense following a corporate merger, not the case with #Twitter and of course there is the thing that most corporate #mergers are another exercise in hubris which usually fail. LOL

#branding

New Yorker: A Setback in the F.T.C.’s Fight Against Big Tech https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/a-setback-in-the-ftcs-fight-against-big-tech #NewYorker #FederalTradeCommission #Business/Currency #TechCompanies #Microsoft #Mergers #Tech

The @FTC is taking informal comments (an Internet form) on corporate #mergers and their harms. Say your piece here: https://www.regulations.gov/document/FTC-2023-0043-0001

Did you know that the US Chamber Of Commerce says #mergers are good for the economy.
#JoeBiden is working hard to stop GIANT mergers. Thanks Joe.
For me the QFC Safeway big $$ future merger will equal more long drives to Winco in Kent! No real shopping choice may be coming here. :(
#NorthBendWa
City leaders here wish to merge my wallet with a new swimming pool. 3rd attempt, nearly $15 a month till I die or move to an #RV.
To afford the new pool, my wallet says drop my merged life with big streaming. #Youtubetv / $75 a month. No over the air tv around here! Local broadcasting & networks now have #QVC feel anyhow. No worries...
Swim lessons starting to feel like a to do.
Hey US Chamber friends, could you ask #amazon, Google & others to merge themselves $$ with our new / coming much needed (?) swim pool?
Thanks
Bill

This week, a Congressional hearing on vertical #mergers highlighted the need for sound #competition policy that benefits American businesses & consumers.

Delrahim continues, "the interplay between horizontal and vertical theories of harm to #competition is not as simple as labeling them vertical or horizontal...The guiding principle for evaluating #mergers is whether the proposed transaction will substantially lessen competition."

.@SenAmyKlobuchar summarizes her views on vertical #mergers in an opening statement for SJC Subcommittee Hearing “Trends in Vertical Merger Enforcement”.

"#Mergers: Commission clears acquisition of @VMware by @Broadcom"

Big, exciting news for both sides of this deal! Customers & regulators are right to be wary, but the portfolio & position of both orgs makes this a sensible decision.

What do you think?

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_3777

After Stratasys and Desktop Metal announce merger plans, 3D Systems proposes acquisition https://tcrn.ch/42ln6En via @techcrunch #3dprinting #mergers #acquisitions #litigation

The Battle Over 3D Printing’s Most Valuable Company via @forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelmolitch-hou/2023/07/06/the-battle-over-3d-printings-most-valuable-company/ #3dprinting #mergers #acquisitions #litigation

3D printing industry gripped by intrigue, litigation and churn https://www.ft.com/content/7230cd35-1dd1-4219-8837-a764b4849a1a #3dprinting #mergers #acquisitions #litigation

M&A in der Digitalbranche

https://www.bitmi.de/bitmi-mitgliedernews-ma-in-der-digitalbranche/ #ITmittelstand #KMU #Systemhaus #Digitalisierung #Mergers #acquisition

Preis ist nicht gleich Preis am M&A-Markt: Wenn Verkäufer mehrere indikative Angebote erhalten haben, sollten sie diese genau prüfen. Wie setzt sich die angebotene Preisstruktur im Einzelnen zusammen? Wie hoch ist der Festpreis? Gelten variable Preise, sogenannte Earn-Outs? Für welche Zeiträume werden diese definiert? Und vieles mehr…

https://www.bitmi.de/bitmi-mitgliedernews-von-match-it-wie-sich-it-unternehmen-auch-in-turbulenten-zeiten-erfolgreich-verkaufen-lassen/

#mergers #acquisitions #ITunternehmen #Systemhaus #Mittelstand #ITmittelstand #KMU #Nachfolge

🔥⏲️ Fudge Sunday "There's a Lot of Opportunities" A look at recent funding, mergers, and acquisitions related to platform engineering

#mlops #machinelearning #developerexperience #devx #IDP #IDPaaS #dns #dnssecurity #networkautomation #networkmanagement #ipam #cmdb #vcfunding #mergers #acquisitions #funding #fundingnews #startups #startupfunding #newsletter #newsletters #opportunities #engineering #platformengineering #platformengineer

https://fudge.org/archive/opportunities/

Digitalisierung nach wie vor starker Nachfragetreiber im M&A-Markt

https://match-it.biz/aktuelles/die-krise-als-new-normal/ #Digitalisierung #mergers #acquisitions #ITunternehmen #Systemhaus #Mittelstand #ITmittelstand #KMU #Nachfolge

#USA #FTC #Antitrust #Genomics #Mergers: "There are a couple of key lessons here. First, many big mergers occur not for strategic reasons but because executives want a capstone, something to indicate that their tenure was Very Important and Strategic. There are golden parachutes, sure, and bad incentives, but AT&T bought Time Warner because some Texans were tired of running a mere phone company and didn’t have any other ideas. This is one of those cases. And second, mergers, especially for firms that engage in a number of them, are often a way of focusing on arranging the rules of a market while the operational capacity of a firm declines.

Finally, investors and CEOs are not always aligned on mergers. In the case of Illumina, this firm looks fairly dirty, so antitrust enforcement will improve its operational capacity. To put it more simply, add “firing bad CEOs” to the list of Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan and Antitrust Division chief Jonathan Kanter’s accomplishments. (And I’m not just saying that, the Wall Street Journal editorial page wrote an editorial giving her bitter credit, Lina Khan Wins as Illumina’s CEO Resigns.)"

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/lina-khan-fires-a-crooked-ceo