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Talos Energy Ends Poison Pill After Deal With Carlos Slim

What’s going on here? Talos Energy has disposed of its protective ‘poison pill’ following an accord with Carlos Slim to limit his firm’s stake expansion, also selling a key interest in its Mexican unit. What does this mean? Originally, Talos…

20 years since Oracle bought two software rivals in one • The Register

Feature Twenty years ago next week, Oracle closed the $10.3 billion deal to buy HR and finance software specialist PeopleSoft after a fraught, drawn-out, hostile takeover. It marked the high point in a period of tech industry takeover mania, and…