Telecoms Goliaths Virgin Media and O2 in £31bn mega merger

Telecoms Goliaths Virgin Media and O2 to form major rival to BT with £31bn mega merger By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 7 May 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 7 May 2020 Virgin Media and O2 are merging to create a £31billion telecoms giant, their owners confirmed. Liberty Global and Telefonica … Read more

Vodafone could gatecrash O2-Virgin Media merger

Vodafone could gatecrash O2-Virgin Media merger or face being left without a foothold in UK broadband By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 22:54 BST, 5 May 2020 | Updated: 23:41 BST, 5 May 2020 Vodafone will be the biggest loser from the planned O2-Virgin Media merger and could seek to ‘gatecrash’ the deal, … Read more

O2 in £24bn merger talks with Virgin Media

O2 in talks with rival Virgin Media about potential £24bn mega-merger By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:10 BST, 4 May 2020 | Updated: 22:10 BST, 4 May 2020 O2 is in talks with rival Virgin Media about a potential £24 billion mega-merger, it was confirmed yesterday.  The tie-up would transform the telecoms … Read more

Transfonica, owner of O2, in merger talks with Virgin Media

Mobile operator O2 is in talks to merge with Virgin Media in a move that would pose a serious threat to rival telcos including BT and Sky.  Telefonica, O2’s Spanish owner, confirmed it is in discussions with Virgin-owner Liberty Global over a deal between the two network operators. Liberty Global, which is owned by American … Read more

Just Eat’s £6.2bn merger with Takeaway.com is cleared by watchdog 

Just Eat’s £6.2bn merger with Dutch group Takeaway.com is cleared by watchdog By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 23 April 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 23 April 2020 Just Eat’s £6.2billion tie-up with Takeaway.com has been cleared by the competition watchdog. The online food delivery firm’s merger with the Dutch group … Read more

The New Mutants director Josh Boone opens up on delayed process of production amid Disney-Fox merger

‘We’ve never done reshoots’: The New Mutants director Josh Boone opens up about production delays amid Disney-Fox merger By Adam S. Levy For Mailonline Published: 01:21 GMT, 11 March 2020 | Updated: 01:22 GMT, 11 March 2020 The New Mutants director Josh Boone has opened up on the delayed process of film production amid the … Read more

Investors bet against bookie as doubts grow over £10bn merger

Investors bet against bookie as doubts grow over £10bn merger between Paddy Power owner and Canadian rival By Calum Muirhead For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 10 February 2020 | Updated: 21:55 BST, 10 February 2020 The blockbuster merger to create the world’s largest gambling company ‘is not a done deal’ and could be … Read more

Canadian gold miner Endeavour abandons plans for merger with Centamin 

Canadian gold miner Endeavour abandons plans for a £1.5bn merger with FTSE 250-listed Centamin By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:34 GMT, 14 January 2020 | Updated: 22:34 GMT, 14 January 2020 Canadian gold miner Endeavour said it had received ‘insufficient’ information about Centamin’s books before a deadline last night Canadian gold miner … Read more

FTSE LIVE: JD Sports races ahead; Bovis mulls housing merger; Pound holds above $1.23

FTSE CLOSE: Wages up the most in 11 years at 4%; JD Sports sales race ahead; Bovis and Galliford Try mull merger; pound above $1.23 Bovis Homes has rekindled talks over a merger with Galliford Try’s housing arm JD Sports revealed a 10% jump in like-for-like store sales in the UK and Ireland  By Emily … Read more

Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank’s merger with Virgin money cuts your savings safety net 

Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank’s merger with Virgin money cuts your savings safety net By Sylvia Morris For The Daily Mail Published: 22:54 BST, 4 June 2019 | Updated: 09:22 BST, 5 June 2019 Savers with Virgin Money, Yorkshire Bank and Clydesdale Bank face changes to their compensation limits later this year. Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank … Read more