#acquisition

Total us covering for a less then stellar operator.. Any doubts…google Alpine High. If Apache goes bankrupt before 1st oil Total stands to gain significant reserves.

Brilliant current outlook attribution APA insider.
Apache is stuck with the North Sea and the abandonment liability is going to make the GoA look like a picnic. There are wells in the North Sea that haven't had interventions in decades so good luck with those. The acreage in Permian is dying and they should have been ahead of the curve there but they were behind again trying to use AI instead of actual hard science. As far as Surinam goes ... good luck making it long enough to see first oil. Total knows how bad off APA is and if you think it takes this long to get an FPSO on station then you haven't been paying attention to Guyana. They are just waiting for the demise and the forfeiture of the $5bln carry.

Simply the executive team and APA is a joke.

Please share your perspective on the Bumerangue discovery. The timing could not have been more coincidentally suspicious. Does the field have high CO2? That would jeopardize development? Estimated development cost and what would a Shell or Exxon think in the event of BP acquisition?

…. Or more positively I thought it was a new partnership? But no. Everything I have heard and seen is Lexmark people saying “ we will do it the Lexmark way now from now on” and “what xerox did that was value-added and respected by them for years and years will be replaced by administrative type roles in our repetitive factories off-shore”. Jeez. Do they not realise that every client is different and so there does need to be non-repetitive, thoughtful, insightful work as well? I was positive but I have never come across a bunch of guys who behave in this mid-American bully-boy way. HELP !!

Looks like Rarhul is dust, came in when yhe share price was $24 and left 2 years after leaving the Share price at $13

Absence of organic revenue growth over the past two years suggests it may have to lean into acquisitions to drive its expansion
Earnings per share have contracted by 3.6% annually over the last five years, a headwind for returns as stock prices often echo long-term EPS performance
Underwhelming 1.2% return on capital reflects management’s difficulties in finding profitable growth opportunities, and its falling returns suggest its earlier profit pools are drying up

One less great company with a value proposition and an amazing corporate culture to be bought out…

One less great company with a value proposition and an amazing corporate culture to be bought out….

Does anyone know anything about XOM buying Diamondback? I’m seeing post about it online.

Layoffs to stand following $1.1B AI acquisition

Activist investors have taken a $2 billion stake in Workday, signaling approval of its direction and saying they "look forward to continued collaboration with the company."

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/18/workday_elliott_investment/

How sc--wed are we now that DoorDash is taking over? I've only heard bad things but that's mostly about how the company treats its drivers. What about the rest of us? Is it just as bad? To say I'm nervous about this whole thing would be an understatement of the century.

Rumors have been circulating since last year and there were hints that Broadcom was talking with Intel about acquisition/partnership. Looks like Broadcom missed a huge opportunity as Nvidia is now partnered with Intel instead of them. How will this impact Broadcom going forward as the competition just went nuclear against them? We will see, but Broadcom fails and falls behind yet again... and it looks like more layoffs will be coming in October for all divisions below Hock's line of doom.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/nvidia-bets-big-intel-with-5-billion-stake-chip-partnership-2025-09-18/

• Nvidia stake follows big investment from US government
• Nvidia's $5 bln investment makes it one of Intel's largest shareholders
• Intel-Nvidia partnership poses risk to TSMC and AMD
• Collaboration aims to enhance AI and computing capabilities

This is more than OK given that Nvidia has plenty of money to lose.

Does anybody know if the acquisition of 89bio will lead to layoffs on our side? $3.5 billion is a lot of money, and I wouldn’t be surprised if cuts followed to soften the blow. That’s exactly how it worked at my old company, but I haven’t been here long enough to know how it’s handled here. Should I be worried?

https://www.flightglobal.com/fixed-wing/congress-moves-to-restrict-usaf-kc-46-acquisitions-pending-engineering-fix/164516.article

Imperial isn’t doing anything amazing right now. I know the ins and outs of IOL, and there is nothing new to push the stock price so high and so fast.

Now the question is who is buying IOL?? ExxonMobil is not taking over for sure, because they will not buy IOL at this high stock price when they have full control of the company with their +69% ownership.

Is CRC an oil company or an investment bank? CRC only acquires reserves. I never see CRC making large oil discoveries like traditional upstream oil and gas companies. It appears there is an acquisition arm, and then there is an arm that squeezes every dime out of the process. But there is no traditional growth through exploration.

California Resources Corporation (CRC) will acquire Berry Corporation in an all-stock transaction valued at about $717 million, including Berry’s net debt, the companies announced on Sept. 15.

https://worldoil.com/news/2025/9/15/crc-to-acquire-berry-in-717-million-all-stock-merger-expanding-california-oil-assets/

It's been two weeks since the acquisition, and while things have been running smoothly, no major announcements have been made to employees. I sense a calm before the storm and am preparing for what's to come.

The recent F5 RIF was needed to pay for these acquisitions this year

F5 Networks has made several acquisitions in 2025 to expand its cybersecurity and AI capabilities. The recent constantly changing strategy has focused on integrating AI-native security and cloud-native observability into its Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP).

CalypsoAI: Acquired in September 2025 for $180 million, this Dublin-based firm adds real-time threat defense and AI guardrails for securing generative and agentic AI applications.

MantisNet: Acquired in August 2025, MantisNet specializes in real-time network observability using eBPF technology to provide visibility into encrypted traffic in cloud-native environments.

Fletch: This San Francisco-based cybersecurity startup, acquired in June 2025, uses agentic AI to analyze threat intelligence for prioritizing and remediating security threats.

LeakSignal: Acquired in March 2025, LeakSignal focuses on real-time data protection for AI applications.

F5 doesn't have the talent nor brains to do any of these things by itself. All must be bought.

https://www.phonearena.com/news/elon-musk-spacex-echostar-verizon-spectrum_id173967

Company: Capital One Financial
Date: October 17, 2025 (193 workers), and May 1, 2026 (22 workers)
Laid off: 215

These layoffs are tied to a decision by Capital One to exit Discover’s home equity and refinance loan business, which had been part of its business portfolio following its acquisition of Discover. The larger batch of job cuts (193 workers) is set for October 2025, with a smaller group (22) scheduled for May 2026. The company said this is part of financial restructuring and follows a strategic business review of that segment. The transition is expected to reshape operations in that business line.

Several shop will be closed once UP takes over NS. Up only cares about getting to the coast. Good bye Cincinnati.

Has the Esso France change in control happened yet? Waiting for the outcome to see which European asset to strip next?

After a lot of back and forth, it's been decided that cyber, the whole of Microfocus Portfolio will be sold in early H2.
A private firm is very close to making the purchase but has made it clear to cut 75% of the team and no Marketing/BDR roles to be retained.

Anyone heard anything on the lumen fiber buyout? Will we being doing the installs.

BRAKING NEWS! All T-Zones and myFaves team members will be impacted.

• Paramount Skydance is working with an investment bank as it prepares an offer for Warner Bros. Discovery, according to people familiar with the matter.
• Warner Bros. Discovery shares closed up more than 28% on Thursday, the stock’s best day ever. Shares of Paramount Skydance closed up 15%.
• The Wall Street Journal first reported the recently merged Paramount Skydance was preparing a takeover bid for the entirety of WBD.
  https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/11/warner-bros-discovery-paramount-skydance-bid.html

Global payments employee here. Many of the employees here still do not know if they’re staying with Global payments are going to FIS a decision has been lingering for some areas. I’m curious on your end at FIS what’s the word on the street? What have you heard regarding TSYS/issuing and the employees that will be coming to FIS.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/11/warner-bros-discovery-paramount-skydance-bid.html

Don’t let them fool you, Halliburton will be sold soon. Leadership will get wiped clean. It’s the only way. Worse leadership imaginable. Completely out of touch with hard working people that actually run the industry. Tell your white collar leadership to work on the well head, and earn their stripes like the rest of us.

Who is going to buy Intelligrated? I’m hearing rumors it’s going to be Trew.

Now on the top of richest people all over the world. Still not enough? What is the next step, acquistion of cosmos and creation of Oracle Galaxy?

Guys, I am with you, you are strong and worth more than you are treated. Take care of yourself 🩷

Why did HCSC even bother to acquire the Cigna MA LOB? HCSC has made it clear that Cigna MA employees have no value to them and that they could not care less about us. What was the point? Will they actually make a profit from their expansion in the MA market, or possibly from selling us when the one-year period is up, or will they write off the aquisition as a loss--what is the real reason?

Is this going to lead to any layoffs at RaceTrac?

ExxonMobile announced Tuesday that it is acquiring the technology and U.S.-based assets of Superior Graphite, including most of the company’s production facility in Hopkinsville, for an undisclosed price.

by Jennifer P. Brown
Published: 12:22 am Sep. 10, 2025

The Hopkinsville plant produces graphite, a key ingredient in lithium-ion batteries.

“We think Superior Graphite’s technology is a perfect fit for us,” Dave Andrew, ExxonMobil’s vice president for new market development, told Hoptown Chronicle.

Andrew was in Hopkinsville for the announcement, along with Superior Graphite Chairman and CEO Ed Carney.

Although the price was not disclosed, the transaction will benefit Hopkinsville workers who are part of the employee stock ownership plan, said Carney. They have been part owners of Superior Graphite since 2006, he noted.

The deal also includes Superior Graphite’s research and development facility in Bedford Park, Illinois.

The company employs 72 workers in Hopkinsville. Andrew said ExxonMobil plans to maintain that workforce.

Superior Graphite was established in 1917. It has been in operation at its Hopkinsville plant on Calvin Drive since 1977 — making it one of the longest running industrial plants in the community. The plant manager is Jamie Visingardi.

Superior Graphite uses a process it calls “green graphitization technology” in the production of graphite and carbon-based materials. The furnace at the Hopkinsville plant reaches a temperature of approximately 5,000 degrees fahrenheit, which is half the temperature of the surface of the sun, said Carney.

In a press release, ExxonMobil said acquiring Superior Graphite “… marks a major milestone in our strategy to build a robust, synthetic graphite supply chain — right here in the U.S.”

“Compared to traditional mining operations, it’s less labor-intensive, more consistent in quality, and can be made with our carbon-rich feedstocks from existing refining streams,” the release states. “What does that mean in plain English? That we can scale faster and smarter, all while producing a better graphite than what is available in the market today.”

Andrew added, “This is a really important part of Exxon Mobil’s plans to enter the battery end of the market … which we see as a really attractive, growing market.”

ExxonMobil’s interests in EV batteries and energy storage systems require synthetic graphite material that comes from the Hopkinsville plant. The company aims to produce products that “will deliver faster charging and longer life than existing graphite materials today.”

https://hoptownchronicle.org/exxonmobil-is-acquiring-superior-graphites-hopkinsville-production-plant/

I’m from Ansys, this entire acquisition has been terrible for morale. We’ve had little to no layoffs in decades operating along, even when we acquired other companies. Ansys was performing fine with no signs of layoffs and record breaking quarters without Synopsys. We’re less than 2 months in to the acquisition and are likely losing half of our staff.

Sassine's first act as ceo has been a terrible one, at least for the resources at Ansys.
OP: @ct+1k4r879jw

This. And now we are all going to pay the price for the acquisition, especially the Ansys people.

Centerwell just bought The Villages Health System for $48 million dollars!! I just don’t understand!?

This is the opening salvo. If we’re spared and it all hits Ansys’ side, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if we hear about more cuts on our side soon after. No acquisition of this magnitude happens without major workforce realignments, and this will be no different. I’ve already started applying, just in case.

Who do you think would be impacted? Majorly Ansys employees? Or What groups?

Coming from Ansys, Ansys had very few layoffs over the years. Acquisition by synopsys is the worst thing.