The Justice Department is planning to crack down on corporate mergers which have reached the highest totals in the last 20 years, according to new Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter. Settlements in merger cases, particularly when companies agree to sell off lines of business and other assets, will be “the exception, not the rule,” Kanter said Monday. The remarks - at an event sponsored...
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It’s day 43 in the Elon Musk–Twitter saga—and things are getting even weirder. Today we witnessed the bizarre spectacle of Elon Musk tweeting a poop emoji at Parag Agrawal after the Twitter CEO tried to clarify the company’s procedures for keeping spam bots at bay. A short time later, Bloomberg reported that Musk had told a private conference in Miami a viable deal for Twitter at a lower price...
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