Year to more than a trillion dollars. Well today, there was more deal talk. A lot of it. First, a deal rejected. The chip maker altera reportedly said no to an intel offer of 50 a share or so. That would have been a better than 40 premium to alteras stock price when dl talks revved up a few weeks ago. Altera makes programmable chips, which is what attracts intel. Had the deal gone through, it would have been intels biggest acquisition ever. Shares of altera jumped 3 while intel was off fractionally today. Now to a deal accepted. Linkedin is snapping up the online career skills site linda. Com, for 1. 5 billion. Its biggest purchase ever. It hires courses for professionals. Linda will bulk up the social Services Like linking up professionals. With all the announced deals in m a so far this year 2015 is running at record or near record levels. If the pace continues, our guest says the price tag for the year could exceed 3 trillion in activity worldwide. That would make 2015 the second bi
Of announced deals so far this year to more than a trillion dollars. Well today, there was more deal talk. A lot of it. First, a deal rejected. The chip maker altera reportedly said no to an intel offer of 50 a share or so. That would have been a better than 40 premium to alteras stock price when dl talks revved up a few weeks ago. Altera makes programmable chips, which is what attracts intel. Had the deal gone through, it would have been intels biggest acquisition ever. Shares of altera jumped 3 while intel was off fractionally today. Now to a deal accepted. Linkedin is snapping up the online career skills site linda. Com, for 1. 5 billion. Its biggest purchase ever. It hires courses for professionals. Linda will bulk up the social Services Like linking up professionals. With all the announced deals in m a so far this year 2015 is running at record or near record levels. If the pace continues, our guest says the price tag for the year could exceed 3 trillion in activity worldwide. Tha
Will workers strike tomo morning . Vening im ke one hour and counting before the bart deadline. The big question tonight, will workers strike tomorrow morning . Good evening, im ken bastida. Im elizabeth cook. Any word yet . Reporter still not hearing a lot tonight. It is still a waiting game. Both sides are inside this building at this moment as they are negotiating from two separate floors with them running back and forth between them. At had hour, we still dont know whether or not they will choose to strike or extend the talks beyond that midnight deadline. They were suppose to actually meet, both sides at 8 30 this evening, as that did not happen. They will see what happens when we actually get the offer. It is too early to speculate as we dont know what it is, but we did hear that there is something going on. Yes, something could happen. Reporter in the meantime bart is planning for the worse. Its in case of the strike, but again the buses will only accommodate roughly 6,000 of th
[laughter] geoff you want a piece of this . Craig i already got a piece of this. Geoff yeah. Craig good night, everybody ,,,,,,,,,, will workers strike tomo morning . Evening im ke one hour and counting before the bart deadline. The big question tonight, will workers strike tomorrow morning . Good evening, im ken bastida. Im elizabeth cook. Any word yet . Reporter still not hearing a lot tonight. It is still a waiting game. Both sides are inside this building at this moment as they are negotiating from two separate floors with them running back and forth between them. At had hour, we still dont know whether or not they will choose to strike or extend the talks beyond that midnight deadline. They were suppose to actually meet, both sides at 8 30 this evening, as that did not happen. They will see what happens when we actually get the offer. It is too early to speculate as we dont know what it is, but we did hear that there is something going on. Yes, something could happen. Reporter in
First game of the season. Both jacobi jones and mckinney were at the under Armour Training Center today. And coach harbaugh has spoken to the team about what happened early this morning, telling them, nothing good happens after midnight. And jacobi jones is due to be out due to a knee injury he sustained. Government forces are claiming they have gained control of the mall and vowed to finish and punish those responsible. Tara mergener reports with more from the state department. Reporter loud explosions and gunfire erupted. They say two militants have been killed, 10 have been arrested and more hostages have been freed. Plumes of black smoke billowed out of a skylight, reportedly mattresses being set on fire. The kenyan president spoke with president obama over the phone. The kenyan people, we stand with them through this terror attack. Reporter alqaida is taking responsibility. And claims three americans took part in the attack. The state Department Says they have no confirmation amer