KQED Nightly Business Report April 10, 2015
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...