Concerns Mount Over Ocean County Commissioner’s Health Amid Clerk Election Bid
TOMS RIVER, NJ – Ocean County Commissioner Jack Kelly’s reportedly declining health is sparking questions about the smooth operation of county government, potential succession plans, and the future of the Ocean County…
Florida pension leader praises Musk’s Twitter bid, criticizes poison pill
By Ross Kerber (Reuters) – A Florida official praised Elon Musk’s offer to buy Twitter Inc and said pension officials will tell the company its efforts to fend off the bid could…
Proxy advisory firms urge Ventas investors to reject activist’s bid for board seat
BOSTON – Proxy advisory firms Glass Lewis and Institutional Shareholders Services urged investors in healthcare real estate trust Ventas Inc to back management’s director candidates and reject activist investment firm Land &…
Tesla shareholders lose bid for ‘gag order’ against Elon Musk
(Reuters) – A federal judge on Wednesday rejected an effort by Tesla Inc shareholders to obtain a “gag order” preventing Elon Musk from publicly discussing their lawsuit accusing him of deceiving them…
Elon Musk May Have New Competition In His Bid To Buy Twitter
Elon Musk May Have New Competition In His Bid To Buy Twitter Harry Wilmerding on April 19, 2022 Private equity giant Apollo Global Management is discussing plans to enter the Twitter bidding…
Ricketts consortium pulls out of Chelsea bid race
By Peter Hall MANCHESTER, England – A consortium led by Chicago Cubs owners the Ricketts family has pulled out of the running to buy Premier League club Chelsea, the family said on…
Exclusive-Warshaw-led consortium in $1.2 billion bid for Cumulus Media -sources
By Greg Roumeliotis and Dawn Chmielewski (Reuters) -A consortium led by U.S. radio station industry veteran Jeff Warshaw has offered to acquire Cumulus Media Inc for close to $1.2 billion, including debt,…
Clinton-aligned lawyer charged by U.S. prosecutor loses bid to toss case
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON -A U.S. judge on Wednesday declined to throw out a criminal case against Michael Sussmann, a Democratic Party-linked lawyer accused of lying to the FBI, setting the stage…
Biden Scraps Green Fuel Rules In Bid To Slow Skyrocketing Gas Prices
Biden Scraps Green Fuel Rules In Bid To Slow Skyrocketing Gas Prices Thomas Catenacci on April 12, 2022 President Joe Biden is expected to announce a temporary pause on an environmental rule…
Former Caltrans Contract Manager Pleads Guilty to Bid Rigging and Bribery
A former contract manager for the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) pleaded guilty today for his role in a bid-rigging and bribery scheme involving Caltrans improvement and repair contracts. According to a…
Analysis: JetBlue faces struggle in selling Spirit takeover bid to investors
By Rajesh Kumar Singh CHICAGO – Robin Hayes, the ebullient chief executive of JetBlue Airways Corp, was on an Amtrak train on Tuesday coming back from Boston when news broke that his…
Australia’s Virtus Health considers revised bid from BGH in takeover battle with CapVest
By Riya Sharma and Sameer Manekar (Reuters) – Australian fertility services provider Virtus Health said on Wednesday it will consider a revised buyout offer from minority owner BGH Capital, weeks after it…
Telecom Italia, CDP start network talks as KKR bid falters
By Elvira Pollina MILAN – Telecom Italia (TIM) has signed a non-disclosure agreement with Italian state lender CDP to start formal talks on potentially combining the phone group’s network with that of…
Jackson Liberty Students Bid Farewell to Beloved School Resource Officer
JACKSON, NJ – To the students at Jackson Liberty High School, Jackson Township Police Officer John Pejoski was more than just the cop who patrolled the hallways of the building. He was…
U.S. Senate approves $52 billion chips bill in bid to reach compromise
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON -The U.S. Senate on Monday again approved a bill to provide $52 billion in U.S. subsidies for semiconductor chips manufacturing in a bid to reach a compromise after…
U.S, EU, allies block Belarus’ bid to join WTO
BRUSSELS – The United States, the European Union and largely western allies have blocked Belarus’ bid to join the World Trade Organization, saying its complicity in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine makes it…
Prologis launches bid for Blackstone’s 21 billion euros warehouse portfolio – FT
– Prologis Inc, the world’s biggest warehouse owner, has launched a bid to buy Blackstone Inc’s portfolio of logistics properties in what would be the largest ever private real estate deal, the…
Lyft ties up with Payfare to hike fuel cashback in bid to retain drivers
– Lyft Inc’s Lyft Direct cardholders will receive an increase in cashback rewards of 4% to 5% on purchase of gasoline until June 30, the ride-hailing firm said on Monday, its latest…
Telecom Italia starts dialogue with KKR over bid terms
MILAN – Telecom Italia (TIM) this week began a dialogue with U.S. private equity fund KKR over a takeover approach which has been put on hold since last November, sources familiar with…
U.S. Supreme Court spurns Google bid to avoid shareholder lawsuit
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Alphabet Inc’s attempt to nix a lawsuit by shareholders accusing the Google parent company of fraudulently concealing a security…
UniCredit’s Banco BPM bid plan stymied by Ukraine crisis, sources say
By Pamela Barbaglia LONDON – UniCredit has paused efforts to buy Banco BPM after losing more than a fifth of its value since Russia invaded Ukraine, two sources close to the matter…
U.S. delays ICBM test-launch in bid to de-escalate Russia nuclear tensions
By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON -The U.S. military said on Wednesday it will postpone a scheduled test launch of a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile, in a bid to lower…
Canada’s Trudeau invokes emergency powers in bid to end protests
By Steve Scherer, David Ljunggren and Nichola Saminather OTTAWA -Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday activated rarely used emergency powers in an effort to end protests that have shut some U.S.…
Allianz launches $235 million bid for Greece’s European Reliance
FRANKFURT – Allianz on Friday said it will pay about 207 million euros ($235 million) to acquire Greek insurer European Reliance, a move that will create the country’s fifth-largest insurer based on…
Italy’s Banco BPM has no information about potential UniCredit bid – source
MILAN – Italy’s Banco BPM has not received any information about a possible bid from bigger rival UniCredit, a source close to the bank said on Friday. Shares in Banco BPM climbed…
U.S. faces snags in bid to speed up at-risk Afghan evacuations
By Jonathan Landay and Ted Hesson WASHINGTON – A lack of flights and the search for a new U.S. reception center are among the hurdles facing the White House as it races…
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