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Yahoo! shareholders officially approve its $4.48 billion sale to Verizon Wireless. Yahoo! stock was up 8.5 percent shortly thereafter.
2017-06-8

Verizon Communications agrees to buy the core business at Yahoo Inc. for $4.48 billion. Completion of this July 2016 deal had been delayed because of two data breaches Yahoo disclosed last year.
2017-02-21

A Paul Gauguin painting, "Nafea Faa Ipoipo" ("When Will You Marry?"), sells to a Qatari buyer for close to $300 million.
2015-02-5

Spanish energy company Repsol acquires Canadian energy producer Talisman Energy for $13 billion including debt.
2014-12-17

Comcast is set to acquire Time Warner Cable in a US$44 billion buyout.
2014-02-13

A U.S. drone strike kills Hakimullah Mehsud, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban (whom the United States had a reward for $5 million) and five others.
2013-11-1

The United Nations appeals for $4.4 billion of aid for refugees, the largest such request in the UN's history.
2013-06-7

The Guardian obtains a copy of a court order signed on April 25 by Judge Roger Vinson of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). The order permits the FBI, and thereby the Obama administration, to indiscriminately collect phone records of millions of Verizon Communications customers on an "ongoing, daily basis", with all domestic and international calls affected. The permit is similar to one issued to the Bush administration. The Guardian's report does not state from whom they obtained the document.
2013-06-6

Clothing retailer Ralph Lauren agrees to pay $1.6 million for claims of bribery to public officials in Argentina from 2005 to 2009.
2013-04-22

Turkish hackers gain access to the websites of several companies, including Vodafone, the "Daily Telegraph" and UPS, redirecting visitors to a site set up by the group.
2011-09-5