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Costco Wholesale Corp. said on Tuesday it had acquired Innovel Solutions for $1 billion, as the membership-only retailer beefs up its final-mile delivery of bulky products across the United...

Alphabet Inc’s Google is investing more than $1 billion on a new campus in New York, becoming the second major technology company after Amazon to pick America’s financial capital to expand a...

Ars Technica publishes an annual list of companies and brands that are likely to die in the coming year. It includes projects that are threatened for a variety of reasons - economic, cultura...

U.S. exchange operator CME Group said on Thursday it had reached an agreement to buy Michael Spencer’s NEX Group, valuing the British firm at about 3.9 billion pounds ($5.5 billion) and crea...

Adidas plans to buy back up to 3 billion euros ($3.72 billion) of its shares by May 11, 2021, representing almost 9 percent of its share capital, it said on Tuesday, including up to 1 billio...

Tycoon working with adviser to gauge potential buyer interest Malaysia’s fourth-richest person focusing back on home market

China and the United States will hold vice ministerial level trade talks in Beijing on Jan. 7-8, as the two sides look to end a dispute that is inflicting increasing pain on both economies a...

Takeda Pharmaceutical agreed to buy London-listed Shire for 45.3 billion pounds ($61.50 billion) on Tuesday after the Japanese company raised the amount of cash in its offer to secure a reco...

Salesforce.com is in talks to acquire U.S.-Israeli software developer ClickSoftware Technologies for around $1.5 billion, the Calcalist financial news website reported on Wednesday.

Zurich-based company says talks are at a very early stage Reinsurance is a way to tap into long-term cash flows