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TikTok could avoid a ban with a sale. Finding a buyer won’t be easy.

Vox

TikTok is a juggernaut — someone will want to buy it,” said Thomas Smale , CEO of the mergers and acquisitions advisory firm FE International. Google parent company Alphabet and Meta are some of the only companies capable of single-handedly paying TikTok’s price tag at its current $100 billion valuation.

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Trump issues executive order banning transactions with TikTok parent ByteDance in 45 days

GeekWire

Trump cited a “national emergency with respect to the information and communications technology and services supply chain” as the reason for the moratorium, escalating a dispute with TikTok that could force an acquisition of some or all of the social app by Microsoft or another company. The company’s largest acquisition to date was the $26.2

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IPO, acquisitions and now a Super Bowl ad, Seattle’s Porch caps a high-profile stretch

GeekWire

The 30-second spot, with a reported price tag of $5.5 Porch went public at the end of 2020 , raising more than $322 million through a merger with PropTech Acquisition Corp., a publicly traded special purpose acquisition corporation, and a private investment from Wellington Management Company.

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Decoding the Qualtrics deal: Was the firm a good fit for SAP?

CIO Business Intelligence

SAP’s acquisition of a majority stake at customer experience (CX) software firm Qualtrics back in 2018 for $8 billion was never a match made in heaven. For SAP, Qualtrics was not the only acquisition in the CX space. The leadership doesn’t see any change for Qualtrics’ strategy as a result of the acquisition.

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How much should Microsoft pay for TikTok? M&A experts, venture capitalists weigh in on price

GeekWire

This is no ordinary acquisition deal, with complexity at nearly every turn. billion acquisition of LinkedIn in 2016 — has his hands full trying to navigate this one. CNBC’s David Faber reports that the price tag on TikTok could be between $10 billion to $20 billion — obviously a pretty big range. With a Sept.

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Putting a value on your company information

CTOvision

As a result, over 50% of merger and acquisition exchanges can’t be accounted for. Take for example the Microsoft acquisition of LinkedIn earlier in 2016. These organizations such as Google, are often tagged with a high stock price. Today that number is 20%. The tangible and intangible assets come nowhere close to the $26.2

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Why on Earth did Amazon spend $8 billion on a zombie studio?

The Verge

The acquisition offers an opportunity for Amazon to spin the spy films into a big perk for its streaming services. Of the $8 billion price tag, Trendacosta said, “it’s going to seem like an idiot move in about five years — because that’s not actually what the value of any of this stuff is.”.

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