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A close-up of a CPU socket and motherboard lying on the table.Narumon Bowonkitwanchai | Moment | Getty ImagesLONDON - Newport Wafer Fab, the UK's largest chip maker, is slated to be acquired by Chinese semiconductor company Nexperia next…

The Merck logo can be seen on a gate to the Merck & Co campus in Rahway, New Jersey, USA on July 12, 2018.Brendan McDermid | ReutersMerck announced Thursday that it would end development of its experimental drug for hospitalized…

Here’s what you need to know:The hotel operator Extended Stay America will be acquired by two private equity firms, Blackstone and Starwood Capital.Credit...Bruce Bennett/Getty ImagesThe investment firms Blackstone and Starwood Capital…

They are not peanuts.On Thursday, Kraft Heinz announced that he had agreed to sell his nut business, including the iconic Planters brand, to Hormel Foods for $ 3.35 billion in cash.At Hormel, Planters is being added to a growing collection…